Technical Conference: 27 September - 01 October 2026
Science + Industry Showcase: 29 - 30 September 2026
Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center | Rochester, New York, USA

Technical Conference: 27 September - 01 October 2026
Science + Industry Showcase: 29 - 30 September 2026
Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center | Rochester, New York, USA

Invited Speakers

FiO1: Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation

Hong Hua, University of Arizona, USA
Head Mounted Displays Invited

Aaswath Raman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Photonics for Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation Invited

 

FiO 2: Optical Interactions

Alba de las Heras, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany
Attosecond vortex pulses Invited

Peter Domey, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary
Strong field interactions in nanostructures Invited

Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University, USA
Nanophotonics for Single-photon Nonlinear Optics and Coherent Control of Topological Electron States Invited

Peter Dombi, Rsrch Inst for Solid State Phy & Opt, Hungary
PHz Current Control in Dielectric Media Invited

Eileen Otte, University of Rochester, USA
Structured singular light Invited

Matthew Edwards, Stanford University, USA
Holographic plasma optics for ultrafast ultraintense laser science Invited

 

FiO 3: Quantum Electronics

Mehul Malik, Heriot-Watt University, UK
High dimensional quantum information processing Invited

Corin Gawith, Covesion / University of Southampton, UK
Lithium Niobate platforms for quantum optics applicaitions Invited

Lindsay Leblanc, University of Alberta, Canada
Quantum control in ultracold gases Invited

 

FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

 

FiO 5: Integrated Devices for Computing, Sensing and Other Applications

Aseema Mohanty, Tufts University, USA
Visible wavelength integrated photonics / nanophotonics Invited

 

FiO 6: Optics in Biology, Medicine, Vision and Color

Christine Hendon, Columbia University, USA
Optical coherence tomography Invited

Jun Xia, University at Buffalo, USA
Deep Learning–Enabled Clinical Photoacoustic Imaging Invited

Martin Villiger, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
PS-OCT imaging Invited

Yang Liu,  The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Optical phase sensing and imaging for ultrasensitive detection Invited

Jesse Schallek, University of Rochester, USA
Imaging the metabolic machinery of vision:  tracking single cell blood flow and mitochondria in the living retina Invited

Chris Xu, Cornell University, USA
Pushing the limit of imaging depth of multiphoton microscopy Invited

Wu Yuan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Endoscopic sensors and imaging Invited

Jeon Woong Kang, Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, MIT, USA
Spectroscopic techniques and translation Invited

FiO 7: Information Acquisition, Processing and Display

Yasuhiro Takaki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Challenges towards holographic contact lens display Invited

Tomasz Tkaczyk, Rice University USA
Engineering of high-performance miniature optics and imaging systems Invited

Daniel Brunner,University of Franche-Comté, France
Photonic AI and implementation of optical neural networks Invited

Fei Xia, University of California, Irvine, USA
Computational imaging and sensing Invited

Martin Stein, Yale University, USA
Optical computing and programmable photonics Invited

Jiazhang Wang, University of Arizona, USA
Computational Imaging and Optical Metrology Invited

Steven Shen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Diffractive information processing Invited

Haoyi Yu, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Title to be Announced Invited

LS 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

 

LS 2: Quantum Photonics

 

LS 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems

 

LS 4: Attosecond, Strong-Field and XFEL Science