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

FiO 1: Fabrication, Design, and Instrumentation

Tara Fortier, National Inst of Standards & Technology, Canada
Advances in Atomic Optical Clocks

Aaswath Raman, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Optimizing the Transmission and Emission of Infrared Light

Stefan Rothe, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Unlocking the Potentials of Multimode Photonics

Wesley Sacher, Max-Planck-Inst fur Mikrostrukturphysik, Germany
Scaling Short-Wavelength Silicon Photonics for AR/VR and Sensing Microsystems

Leili Shiramin, Interuniversity Microelectronics Center, Belgium

FiO 2: Optical Interactions

Matthias Kling, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, United States
Attosecond Spectroscopy, Strong Field Physics, Xray Tutorial

Michael Chini, Ohio State University, United States
Ultrafast Waveform-Controlled Mid-IR Laser

Alba de las Heras, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Spain
Tayloring Attosecond Locally-Chiral Light and Photocurrents in a Topological Semimetal

Peter Dombi, HUN-REN Wigner Research Ctr for Physics, Hungary
Strong Field Interactions in Nanostructures

Matthew Edwards, Stanford University, United States
Holographic Plasma Optics for Ultrafast Ultraintense Laser Science

Nicolas Joly, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Nonlinear Optics in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

Xiaoqin Li, University of Texas at Austin, United States
2D Electronic Spectroscopy of 2D and Plasmonic Materials

Giulia Mancini, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Ultrafast Ptycography of Vortex Beams and Their Interaction With Matter

Eileen Otte, University of Rochester, United States
Structured Singular Light

Logan Wright, Yale University, United States
High-Dimensional Optical Waves

FiO 3: Quantum Electronics

Stefanie Barz, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Integrated Photonics for Quantum Networking

Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester,
On-chip Quantum Photonics

Alessio D Errico, University of Ottawa, Canada
Quantum structured light

Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
Nonclassical Sources for Quantum Sensing

Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Alberta, Canada
Quantum Control in Ultracold Gases

Mehul Malik, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
High Dimensional Quantum Information Processing

Sergei Slussarenko, Griffith University, Australia
Noiseless Amplification of Photonic Quantum States

Peter Smith, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Lithium Niobate and Nonlinear Optics as an Enabler for Quantum Technologies and Augmented Reality

FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Léa Bouffaut, Cornell University, United States
Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing and Environmental Conservation

Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton University, United States
Simultaneous Communication and Sensing With OAM

Prem Kumar, Northwestern University, United States
Special Session: Quantum Networks: Quantum Internet: What Is It, Why Do We Need It, and How Do We Engineer It

Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc., United States
State of the Art in Optical Fiber Design: From Data Centers to Submarine

Boon Ooi, King Abdullah Univ of Sci & Technology, Saudi Arabia

FiO 5: Integrated Devices and Applications

Chaoran Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Integrated Photonic Neuromorphic Computation

Courtney Johnson, Janelia Research Campus, United States
Microscopy

Aseema Mohanty, Tufts University, United States
Visible Wavelength Integrated Photonics / Nanophotonics

Ayed Al Sayem, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
Integrated photonics with TFLN and TFLT

Sebastian Skacel, Vanguard Automation GmbH, Germany
Advanced Packaging and Integration

Youngik Sohn, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Republic Of Korea
PDK Components for Scalable Photonic Integrated Circuits

Alexey Tikan, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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

Christine Hendon, Columbia University, United States
Optical Coherence Tomography

Jeon Woong Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Spectroscopic Techniques and Translation

Yang Liu, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Multiscale Quantitative Phase Imaging for Precision Biology and Medicine

Jesse Schallek, University of Rochester, United States
Imaging the Metabolic Machinery of Vision: Tracking Single Cell Blood Flow and Mitochondria in the Living Retina

Martin Villiger, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, United States
PS-OCT Imaging

Jun Xia, Washington University in St Louis, United States
Deep Learning–Enabled Clinical Photoacoustic Imaging

Chris Xu, Cornell University, United States
Pushing the Limit of Imaging Depth of Multiphoton Microscopy

Wu Yuan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Endoscopic Sensors and Imaging

FiO 7: Information, Acquisition, Processing, and Display

Kaan Aksit, University College London, United Kingdom
Computational Imaging at the Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Hardware Development

Daniel Brunner, FEMTO-ST, France
Photonic AI and Implementation of Optical Neural Networks

Jakob Dremel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Efficient Encoding and Decoding Method, Computer-Generated Holography

Nathaniel Hai, Boston University, Israel
Breaching Fundamental Limits in Biomedicine With Multiphoton Photothermal Microscopy

Nektarios Koukourakis, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Microrobots as Theranostic Guide Stars

Teruyoshi Nobukawa, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan
Computational Passive Imaging via Incoherent Digital Holography with Diffractive and Meta Optics

Che-Yung Shen, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Diffractive Information Processing

Martin Stein, Yale University, United States
Optical Computing and Programmable Photonics

Tomasz Tkaczyk, Rice University, United States
Engineering of High-Performance Miniature Optics and Imaging Systems

Jiazhang Wang, University of Arizona, United States
Computational Imaging and Optical Metrology

Fei Xia, University of California Irvine, United States
Computational Imaging and Sensing

Haoyi Yu, Univ of Shanghai Science & Technology, China
On-chip Synthetic Optical Representation Learning through Scattering Medium and Diffractive Neural Processor

Jie Zhang, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Information Transmission Through Scattering Media with Neuromorphic Computing

LS 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Jonathan Hood, Purdue University, United States

Vinod Menon, City University of New York, United States
Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Magnets: From Strong Coupling to Transduction

LS 2: Quantum Photonics

Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, United States
Visionary

Songtao Chen, Princeton University, United States

Chen-Lung Hung, Purdue University, United States

Alisa Javadi, University of Oklahoma, United States

Tongcang Li, Purdue University, United States

Kanu Sinha, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States

LS 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems

R. J. Dwayne Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
What is Life? Can We Measure It? Visionary

Edoardo Baldini, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Precision Optical Spectroscopy of van der Waals Magnets in and Out of Equilibrium

James Gaynor, Northwestern University, United States

Todd Krauss, University of Rochester, United States
Photophysical Dynamics of Colloidal Nanocrystals in the Strong Light-Matter Coupling Limit

Alice Kunin, Princeton University, United States

Vasili Perebeinos, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States
Modeling of Linear and Non-linear Optical Response in Low-dimensional Material

Extreme Light Theme

Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Visionary

Adam Borzsonyi, ELI-ALPS, Hungary

Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University, United States

Davide Terzani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

Jonathan Zuegel, University of Rochester, United States

Quantum Technologies Theme

Ebrahim Karimi, University of Ottawa, United States
Structured Photons and Their Applications Visionary

Ben Dixon, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, United States
Title to be announced

Eden Figueroa, SUNY Stony Brook, United States
Title to be announced

Noel Goddard, Qunnect Inc., United States
Quantum Networking: Advancements in Deployments and Use Cases

Azure Hansen, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
Title to be announced

Robert Pettit, memQ Inc,
Title to be announced

Stefan Preble, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Title to be announced

Alexander Radnaev, Infleqtion, United States
Title to be announced

Brian Smith, University of Oregon, United States
Title to be announced

Space Optics Theme

Justin Cook, Fibertek, Inc, United States
Space-Based WDM Optical Amplifiers

Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision Theme

Hong Hua, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
Efficient Eyepiece Designs for Mixed Reality Displays via Foveation

Jung-Ping Liu, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Near-Eye Display by Computer-Generated Holograms

Tomas Sluka, CREAL SA, Switzerland
Laser-FLCoS Display: Benefits and Roadmap Integration for Ultimate AR

Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo Univ of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Challenges Towards Holographic Contact Lens Display