CLEO®/Europe Invited Speakers – EQEC Invited Speakers – Joint Symposia Invited Speakers
CLEO®/Europe 2021 Invited Speakers
Jake Bromage, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY, USA
Technology development for ultra-intense OPCPA systems
Joachim Buldt, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Broadband Ytterbium fiber CPA-system delivering 120fs, 10 mJ pulses at 1 kW average power
Mircea Guina, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
GaSb-based SESAM technology for mid-IR ultrafast lasers
Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
The Game of Light & Heat: Cryogenic Optical Refrigeration and Athermal Lasers
Ryo Yasuhara, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu, Japan
Tb-doped Materials for Visible Lasers
Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
High-power VCSEL beam scanners for 3D sensing
Key May Lau, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
III-V components on a SOI platform by selective MOVPE without buffer layers for Si photonic integrated circuits
Shinji Matsuo, NTT Device Technology Laboratories & NTT Nanophotonics Center, Japan
Heterogeneously integrated membrane lasers and photonic crystal lasers
Eric Tournié, University of Montpellier II, France
Mid-IR lasers epitaxially integrated on on-axis Silicon
CC – Terahertz Sources and Applications
Matthias C. Hoffmann, LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
Ultrafast structural dynamics of strongly-THz-driven materials
Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector
Ranjan Singh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Towards 6G communications with terahertz on-chip topological photonics
CD – Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Igal Brener, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Ultrafast and nonlinear semiconductor metasurfaces
Anna Fedotova, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in Nonlinear Metasurfaces
Stefania Residori, HOASYS, Valbonne, France
Applications for interferometry and sub-millisecond phase modulation with liquid crystal light valves
Kartik Srinivasan, NIST, Gaithersburg and University of Maryland, USA
Nonlinear and quantum photonics in chip-integrated microresonators
CE – Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Armin Dadgar, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Novel concepts for III-N-based vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
Novel concepts for fabrication and applications of fibers using high-index heavy metal oxide glasses
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Compact quantum dots photoligated with multifunctional zwitterionic coating for immunofluorescence and imaging
Jie Xu, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Second Harmonic Generation by Silicon Metamaterial on a Fibre Tip
CF – Ultrafast Optical Technologies
Rupert Huber, University of Regensburg, Germany
Controlling condensed matter with lightwave fields and forces
John C. Travers, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Progress in soliton dynamics in hollow capillary fibres
Lenard Vamos, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Spain
High-Brightness Seven-Octave light source
Jean-Pierre Wolf, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Laser lightning rod and artificial fog dissipation
CG – High-field Laser and Attosecond Science
Matteo Lucchini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Attosecond dual nature of core excitons
Giuseppe Sansone, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Attosecond metrology at Free Electron Lasers
Kazuhiro Yabana, Center for Computional Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Ab initio description of ultrafast dynamics in solids
CH – Optical Sensing and Microscopy
Ole Bang, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Denmark
Supercontinuum based mid-infrared OCT, spectroscopy, and hyperspectral imaging
Paola Borri, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Quantitative coherent Raman scattering microscopy for bioimaging
Maria García-Parajo, The Institute of Photonics Sciences (ICFO), Spain
Photonic antennas for ultra-sensitive biosensing and bioimaging
Bernhard Lendl, Technical University of Wien, Austria
Mid-IR laser spectroscopy for protein analysis in aqueous solution
Federica Villa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Enhanced quantum imaging SPAD arrays
CI – Optical Technologies for Communications and Data Storage
Robert Killey, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Towards 50G/100G passive optical networks with digital equalisation and coherent detection
Darko Zibar, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Denmark
Machine learning enabled Raman amplifiers
CJ – Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers
Cesar Jauregui-Misas, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
Transverse mode instability in high-power fiber laser systems: a “Hot Topic”
Tawfique Hasan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Manufacturing 2D material based saturable absorbers: from composites to printing
Katarzyna Krupa, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Latest experimental advances in nonlinear multimode fiber optics
Xueming Liu, Zhejiang University, China
Revealing the soliton buildup dynamics in mode-locked fiber lasers
Christos Markos, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, Denmark
Mid-IR gas-filled hollow-core fiber lasers based on Raman gases
CK – Micro- and Nano-Photonics
Daniel Benedikovic, Universite Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies, Palaiseau, France
Receiver-less silicon-germanium avalanche p-i-n photodetectors
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China
Multimode silicon photonics
Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Directional coupling of emitters into waveguides: A symmetry perspective
Isabelle Staude, JENA, Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Germany
Stacked photonic systems composed of resonant metasurfaces and other functional layers
CL – Photonic Applications in Biology and Medicine
Helen Parker, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Digital droplet microfluidic integrated Lab-in-a-fiber detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA
Ilaria Testa, Advanced Optical Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH, Karolinska Institutet Science Park, Sweden
3D and parallelized RESOLFT for volumetric live cell imaging
CM – Materials Processing with Lasers
Airan Rodenas, University of Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
3D laser nanolithography of crystals
Hong Bo Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Optical FIB: Far-field fabrication with real-nanoscale spatial resolution in any solid materials
Andrés Fabián Lasagni, University Dresden, Germany
Controlling surface properties by fabricating single and multi-scaled periodic surface structures using laser based microfabrication methods
EQEC 2021 Invited Speakers
EA – Quantum Optics and Ultracold Quantum Matter
Jacqueline Bloch, C2N Palaiseau, France
Universal KPZ scaling in the coherence of a 1D polariton condensate
Benjamin Lev, Stanford, USA
Creating optical lattices with sound using confocal cavity QED
EB – Quantum Information, Communication, and Sensing
Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Quantum networks with articial atoms in scalable photonic circuits: Ar-chitecture designs to proof of concept systems
Felix Hoffet, Sorbonne Universités, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France
Efficient entanglement transfer between light and cold-atom quantum memories
Fabio Sciarrino, University of Roma, Italy
The quest of quantum advantage with a photonics platform
Roman Stricker, University of Innsbruck, Germany
Experimental deterministic correction of qubit loss
Richard Warburton, University of Basel, Switzerland
A fast and bright source of coherent single photons
EC – Topological States of Light
Christina Jörg, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Using symmetry bandgaps to create a line of bound states in the continuum in 3D photonic crystals
Sebastian Klembt, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Topological insulator surface-emitting laser array
Sunil Mittal, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Topological optical frequency combs and dissipative Kerr super-solitons
Alexander Szameit, University of Rostock , Germany
Photonic topological Z2 insulators
ED – Precision Metrology and Frequency Combs
Florin Lucian Constantin, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Improved determination of fundamental constants and test of fundamental physics with Doppler-Free THz spectroscopy of HD+
David R. Leibrandt, NIST Boulder, USA
Precision frequency comb spectroscopy of single molecular ions
Tanja Mehlstäubler, PTB Braunschweig, Germany
Optical atomic clocks for chronometric leveling
Johann Riemensberger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Single-pixel massively parallel coherent LiDAR using on dual soliton microcombs
EE – Ultrafast Optical Science
Mary Matthews, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
High energy high harmonic generation (HHG) in liquids
Camille-Sophie Brès, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland United
Second order nonlinearity in Silicon Nitride waveguides via photo-induced self-organized gratings
EF – Nonlinear Phenomena, Solitons and Self-organization
Bruno Garbin, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Palaiseau, France
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in coherently driven-dissipative coupled nanocavities
Marco Piccardo, Harvard University, USA and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Nonlinear dynamics in semiconductor ring lasers: From phase turbulence to solitons
Germán J. de Valcárcel, University of Valencia, Spain.
Quantum coherence and fast-gain effects in laser modelocking: The coherent master equation
Mengjie Yu, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Harvard, USA
Lithium-Niobate-Based frequency combs
EG – Light-matter Interactions at the Nano-scale
Christophe Galland, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Atomic-scale, light-driven dynamics of plasmonic nanojunctions
Ana Predojevic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Entanglement generation in semiconductor nanostructures
EH – Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Humeyra Caglayan, Tampere University, Finland
Light-matter interaction control with multilayer epsilon-near-zero metamaterials
Francesco Monticone, Cornell University, USA
Emerging directions in local and nonlocal flat optics
EI – Two-dimensional and Novel Materials
Thomas Mueller, TU Wien, Austria
Ultrafast machine vision with 2D semiconductor photodiode arrays
EJ – Theoretical and Computational Photonics Modelling
Lauri Salmela, Tampere University, Finland
Predicting supercontinuum generation dynamics using a neural network
Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, USA
Scalable photonics: an optimized approach
CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2021 Joint Symposia Invited Speakers
Bartlomiej Graczykowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
Heat and hypersound management in 2D Phononic Crystals
Mathieu Luisier, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Ab initio modeling of thermal effects in 2D van der Waals materials
Masahiro Nomura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Surface phonon polariton: the 4th heat carrier in SiN nanofilms
Oliver Wright, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Perfect-bandgap tapered nanophononic metamaterial beam for thermal insulation
JSII – High-field THz Generation and Applications
Keith A. Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Generating THz fields and delivering them to samples for maximum effect
Koichiro Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
High harmonic generation from low dimensional materials
Stephen R. Leone, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Attosecond noncollinear four wave mixing
Douglas Garratt, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Ultrafast exciton dynamics in poly(3-hexylthiophene) probed with time resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the carbon K-edge
Françoise Remacle, University of Liège, Belgium
Steering nuclear motion by ultrafast multistate non equilibrium electronic quantum dynamics in atto excited molecules
JSIV – Deep learning in photonics
George Barbastathis, MIT, USA
On the use of machine learning for computational imaging
Sylvain Gigan, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, ENS, Paris, France
Complex photonics for large scale machine learning
Valentin Kapitany, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Inferring spatial scenes from their time-resolved multipath echoes
Alessandro Chiasera, CNR-IFN, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Trento, Italy
Photonic glass systems fabricated by RF sputtering on flexible substrates
Lan Li, Key Laboratory of 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication and Characterization, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
A universal approach for photonic integration on flexible substrates
Weidong Zhou, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), USA
Flexible hybrid semiconductor membrane photonic devices based on micro transfer printing process
JSE – Joint Session ECBO-CLEO®/Europe
Raphael Turcotte, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA
Deep brain endo-microscopy using multimode optical fibre