Invited Speakers

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Jung Han Choi (Fraunhofer HHI)

Ultra-low power SiGe ASIC for InP Mach-Zehnder Modulator and CMOS Quenching-IC for SPAD (Single-Photon-Avalanche Diode) for Quantum QKD Communication

Takuo Hiratani (Sumitomo Electric)

Tunable Lasers with InP-gain regions on Si-photonic circuits using chip-on-wafer bonding

Jin-Wei Shi (National Central University)

Zn-Diffusion Single-Mode VCSELs at 850 and 1060 nm for High-Speed AI Interconnection

Howard (Ho Wai) Lee (University of California, Irvine)

Active meta-optical fiber integrated devices

Yo Nakamura (1Finity Inc)

Impact of Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise on Tbps-Class Coherent Transceivers and Joint Optimization of Laser Phase Noise and DSP Compensation

Josuke Ozaki (NTT Innovative Devices Corporation)

High Capacity Enabling C+L-Band InP-Based Coherent Driver Modulators

Oskars Ozoliņš (Riga Technical University)

Beyond 300 Gb/s Optical-Amplification-Free Transmission at 85 ℃ using BTO Silicon Photonics Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Wei Shi (Laval University)

Ultra-Compact Coherent Transmitters for Next-Generation Datacenter Interconnects

Takuo Tanemura (The University of Tokyo)

Scalable optical neural network chip based on multi-plane light conversion

Toshimasa Umezawa (NICT)

200-GHz range photodetector technology for high baud rate optical fiber communication

Cheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Integrated lithium niobate microwave and terahertz photonics

Yuki Yamada (NTT, inc.)

High-speed vertical-illumination photodiode for beyond-200-Gbaud applications

Yuya Yamaguchi (NICT)

Electro-Optic-Equalizer-Integrated Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Modulator for High Baud-Rate Signaling

Zejie Yu (Zhejiang University)

Nonlinear wavelength conversion in a thin-film lithium niobate waveguide

Frederic Boeuf (STMicroelectronics)

From Sensing Applications to 200Gbps/lane Silicon Photonics using 300mm Platforms

You-Chia Chang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Silicon photonic beam steerers for chip-scale LiDAR and microscopy

Zhenzhou Cheng (Tianjin University)

Silicon Photonics for Gas Sensing

Yi-Jen Chiu (National Sun Yat-sen University)

Thin-film photonics integration using different material templates will be introduced and discussed in the presentation. Using spot size converter (SSC) and different substrate, photonic devices performance can be promoted by taking advantages of material properties.

Kristinn Gylfason (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

An Integrated Platform for Ultra-Low-Power Reconfigurable Silicon Photonics Leveraging Wafer-Scale Vacuum Sealed MEMS

Tatsurou Hiraki (NTT, inc.)

Membrane InP-based Photonic Devices on Si for Chip-to-chip Interconnects

Chaoran Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Scalable Optical Metasurface for On-Edge Machine Vision

Hansuek Lee (KAIST)

On-chip ultra-low-loss chalcogenide glass optical waveguides and resonators for mid-infrared photonics

Hongtao Lin (Zhejiang University)

Reconfigurable Photonics based on phase changes materials

Hyundai Park (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)

300-mm Silicon Photonics Platform at Samsung Foundry

Gyeongho Son (PsiQuantum)

Manufacturable Integrated Photonics for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

Dawn Tan (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

Nonlinear optics in silicon-based photonic devices

Chenxi Wang (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS)

High-Speed Optical Phased Array based on Heterogeneously Integrated Lithium Niobate–on–Silicon Nitride Platform

Yaojing Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

Nonlinear Effects in High-Q Multimode Silicon Resonators

Motoki Asano (NTT, inc.)

Cavity optomechanics in chained microbottle resonators

Haoshuo Chen (Nokia Bell Labs)

Recent Advances in Energy-Efficient Multi-Channel and Multi-Core Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

Sanghoon Chin (CSEM)

Compact FPGAs Catalysing Innovation in Optical Fiber Sensing and FMCW LiDAR

John Downie (Corning Inc.)

Multicore Fiber and System Solutions for High-Capacity Submarine Cables

Maria R. Fernandez-Ruiz (University of Alcalá)

Towards a Global Sensing Network: New Advances in Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Paolo Ghelfi (CNIT)

Integrated Radio-over-Fiber for the Latest Applications Requests

Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas )

Fiber Optic Sensing using Submarine cables

Wookjin Jeong (KAERI)

Radiation effects and hardening strategies in fiber optic sensors

Huioon Kim (KOPTI)

AI-enhanced Data Analytics for Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Methods and Real-world Case Studies

Jaesun Kim (Taihan Fiberoptics)

Innovative Approach in Optical Fiber Fabrication Technology for Enhanced Fiber Lasers

Mickael Mounaix (The University of Queensland)

Spatiotemporal optical toroidal beams in Multimode Fibers

Linh Nguyen (Adelaide University)

Multimode fiber amplifiers with high quality focused output based on wavefront shaping the input seed

Zinan Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Harnessing Fiber Rayleigh Scattering: Unlocking Advanced Sensing and Novel Lasers

Songnian FU (Guangdong University of Technology)

Hollow Core Fiber based Data Center Interconnection

Zhensheng Jia (CableLabs)

High-Speed and Intelligent Optical Access Networks: Advancing Coherent PON and Distributed Fiber Sensing Toward the Next-Generation Broadband Era

Shin Kaneko (NTT, inc.)

Metro/Access Converged Network Technology

Ryo Koma (NTT, inc.)

Enabling technologies and signal processing for very high speed PON

Kwang Koog Lee (KT Corporation )

AI-Driven Network Operations for 6G: LLM-Based Automated Provisioning with Network Digital Twin Verification

Angela Mitrovska (Fraunhofer HHI)

Policy-Enforced Network Automation using Data Space Principles

Kenji Miyamoto (NTT, inc.)

Optical-Wireless Cooperative Control for Future Radio Access Network

Paolo Monti (Chalmers University of Technology)

Bridging the Trust Gap in AI-Driven Optical Networks with Structured Explainability

Michela Svaluto Moreolo (CTTC)

Advanced Programmable Transceivers and Quantum-Secure Communications for Future SDN-Enabled Optical Networks

Emilio Paolini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa)

Scaling LLM Fine-Tuning in Radio Access Network deployments

Gangxiang SHEN (Soochow University)

FTTR+X: Integrated Intelligence and Sensing

Takahiro Suzuki (NTT, inc.)

Virtualization and PHY Softwarization in Optical Access Networks

Eduward Tangdiongga (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Photonic Integrated Transceivers for Broadband Optical Wireless Communication

Sugang Xu (NICT)

Resilience Enhancement of Optical Networks via Collaborative Resource and Data Sharing

Junwen Zhang (Fudan University)

Next-Generation Intelligent and Flexible Optical Access Network based on Coherent Optics

Yixiao ZHU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Terabit Data-Center Interconnects Enabled by Broadband TFLN Modulators

Devin Brinkley (Taara Connect)

Terrestrial Wireless Optical Communication Integrated Into a Photonic Module

Di Che (Nokia Bell Labs)

Colorless Detection of WDM Superchannel with a Frequency Comb-Based Local Oscillator

Benedikt Geiger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Modeling Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise

Joan M Gené (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Probabilistic Constellation Shaping: From Point-to-Point Links to Networks

Hun-Sik Kang (ETRI)

Real-Time FPGA Implementation of a PTBC DSP Architecture for Coherent-Lite Fronthaul Optical Access Links  

Tomoyuki Kato (1Finity Inc)

Ultra-Wideband Multi-Band Transmission and Band-Expansion Using Wavelength Conversion

Akira Kawai (1Finity Inc)

Ultrahigh-Capacity Coupled-Core Multi-Core Fiber Transmission Systems enabled by Advanced DSPs

Joonyoung Kim (IMEC)

Towards integrated front-ends for radio-over-fiber systems

Jingchi Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Monolithically Integrated SiP Self-Coherent Detection Receivers for Optical Interconnects

Hai-Han Lu (National Taipei University of Technology)

Advancing 6G NTNs: Integrating LEO Satellite Laser Communications with FSO and 5G NR

Sang-Rok Moon (ETRI)

Feasibility and Performance of Photonics-Assisted Sub-THz Wireless X-haul Links

Leif Katsuo Oxenloewe (Technical University of Denmark)

Reducing Energy Consumption of Amplified Links Through Space-Division Multiplexing

Javier Perez Santacruz (IMEC)

FMCW LiDAR Architectures: Overview, Trade-offs, and Design Selection

Cen Wang (KDDI Research, Inc.)

Demonstration of an LLM-Centric Optical Network Control and Management Plane

Ni Chen (The University of Hong Kong)

Uncertainty-Aware Computational Imaging

Zhongping Chen (University of California, Irvine)

Breaking the Scattering Barrier: Non-invasive Deep Tissue Imaging Using Reflection Matrix Based Wavefront Shaping

Wonshik Choi (Korea University)

Seeing Through Skins and Bones: Reflection Matrix Approaches for Deep-Tissue Optical Imaging

Zhang Gong (Zhejiang University)

Silicon-based heterogeneous integrated quantum photonic chips

George T. Kanellos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Fully Dynamic and Automated 4-node Switched-QKD Network with PUF-based Authentication

Hsiang-Chieh Lee (National Taiwan University)

High-speed and long-range optical coherence tomography imaging with a MEMS-tunable HCG-VCSEL light source

Hyang-Tag Lim (KIST)

Distributed quantum sensing with entangled photons

Tong Ling (Nanyang Technological University)

Label-free interferometric imaging of neural activity and its application for optoretinography

Huilian Ma (Zhejiang University)

Broadband Source-Driven Resonant Optical Gyroscope

Xiongfeng Ma (Tsinghua University)

Toward Practical Quantum Communication Networks: Mode-Pairing QKD and Beyond

Yasuyuki Ozeki (The University of Tokyo)

Vibrational Imaging of Cells and Semiconductors with Stimulated Raman Scattering

Xiaolong Su (Shanxi University)

Continuous-variable entanglement-assisted quantum communication and quantum chip

Shuntaro Takeda (The University of Tokyo)

Programmable continuous-variable photonic quantum computing in the time domain

Shigeki Takeuchi (Kyoto University)

Photonic quantum sensing using frequency entangled photons

Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong (The University of Hong Kong)

All-fiber Laser via Hybrid Optical Amplifier in the NIR-III Region for Multi-Contrast Photoacoustic Microscopy