Technical Conference: 26 - 30 October 2025
Exhibition: 28 - 29 October 2025
Colorado Convention Center | Denver, Colorado, USA

Technical Conference: 26 - 30 October 2025
Exhibition: 28 - 29 October 2025
Colorado Convention Center | Denver, Colorado, USA

Invited Speakers

Optical Design and Instrumentation

Pablo Artal, Universidad de Murcia, SPAIN
Title to be Announced Invited

Hui Deng, University of Michigan, USA
Unconventional Photonics Invited

Ulrike Fuchs, asphericon GmbH, GERMANY
From Design to Reality: Real-World Implementations of Freeform Optics in Emerging Applications Invited

Patrice Genevet, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Markus Graefe, Institute of Applied Physics (Germany), GERMANY
Nonlinear Interferometers - From Fundamentals to Biomedical Imaging and Beyond Invited

Libai Huang, Purdue University, USA
Quantum Simulation of Correlated Exciton Phases via Ultrafast Optical Microscopy Invited

Takuro Ideguchi, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Title to be Announced Invited

Kate Medicus, Ruda Optical Inc., USA
Title to be Announced Invited

James Schuck, Columbia University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Jiali Sun, Technische Universität Dresden, GERMANY
AI for Metrology Invited

Florian Willomitzer, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Wei Xiong, University of California San Diego,
Toward a Rational Understanding of Polariton Chemistry Invited

Optical Fabrication, Microtechnology and Testing

Vladan Vuletic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Title to be Announced Plenary

Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Miniaturized Reconfigurable Nanophotonic Devices enabled by Phase-change Materials Invited

Richard Averitt, University of California San Diego, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

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

Emily Davis, New York University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

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

Hanieh Fattahi, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, GERMANY
Femtosecond Fieldoscopy: a route to high resolution label-free microscopy Invited

Christina Jörg, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, USA
Structured Light in Waveguide-based Hamiltonian Simulators Invited

Malcolm Kadodwala, University of Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM
Chiral Nanophotonics: Towards Single Molecule Chiroptical Measurements Invited

Henry Kapteyn, KMLabs, USA
Coherent VUV-to-Soft X-ray Sources using Guided-Wave Upconversion of Ultrafast Lasers Invited

Ebrahim Karimi, University of Ottawa, CANADA
Title to be Announced Invited

Zeeshawn Kazi, Princeton University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Sara Mouradian, University of Washington, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Bienvenu Ndagano, INRS-Energie Mat & Tele Site Varennes, CANADA
Title to be Announced Invited

Arno Rauschenbeutel, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,
Title to be Announced Invited

Alp Sipahigil, Harvard University,
Optically Interconnected Spin Qubit Registers in Silicon Photonics Invited

Alp Sipahigil, University of California Berkeley, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Coherence, Interference and Polarization for Quantum Technology

Eunice Bae, Cornell University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Anindya Banerji, Centre for Quantum Technologies, SINGAPORE
Title to be Announced Invited

Jeffrey Blackburn, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Ultrafast Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Mixed-Dimensionality Nanoscale Heterostructures Invited

Frederic Bouchard, University of Ottawa, CANADA
Title to be Announced Invited

Lucia Caspani, Universita dell'Insubria, ITALY
Quantum-enhanced Second Harmonic Generation Beyond the Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion Regime Invited

Daniele Faccio, University of Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM
Title to be Announced Invited

Robert Fickler, Tampereen Yliopisto, FINLAND
Title to be Announced Invited

Anna Grassellino, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

James McIver, Columbia University, USA
Cavity Electrodynamics of van der Waals Heterostructures Invited

Eileen Otte, University of Rochester, USA
Nanophotonics Invited

Diana Qiu, Yale University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago, USA
Light-Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in an Excitonic Insulator Candidate Invited

Hui Zhao, University of Kansas, USA
Mapping Ultrafast Photocarrier Transport in van der Waals Materials via Transient Absorption Microscopy Invited

Prineha Narang, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Title to be Announced Visionary

Laser Instrumentation, Precision Measurements and Digital Holography

Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Novel Coherent Detection for Optical Fiber Communicatoins Invited

Andrea D'Amico, NEC Laboratories America Inc., USA
Open and Dissagregated Fiber Nets Invited

Giammarco Di Sciullo, Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, ITALY
Space Division Multiplexing with Mode Permutation Invited

Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM
Title to be Announced Invited

Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Farzana Khatri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Optical Comms for Artemis2 Manned Moon Mission Invited

Matthias Kling, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Anna Peacock, University of Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM
Advances in Silicon Core Optical Fibers: Extending their Reach in Nonlinear Applications Invited

Siddharth Varughese, Infinera Corp., USA
Optical Comms and Sensing Over Submarine Cables Invited

Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Shaping for Biomedicine

Yuliya Akulova, Intel Corporation, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Andrea Blanco-Redondo, University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Jeffrey Driscoll, Rockley Photonics, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Lin Du, Ohio State University, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

David Harame, AIM Photonics, USA
Heterogeneous Photonic-Electronic Platform with Slow-Wave Mach-Zehnder Modulator for High Bandwidth-Density Co-Packaged Optics Invited

Jiang Li, hQphotonics Inc., USA
Chip-scale Low Noise Oscillators Based on Integrated Optical Frequency Division Invited

Marina Radulaski, University of California Davis,
Title to be Announced Invited

Wesley Sacher, Max-Planck-Inst fur Mikrostrukturphysik, GERMANY
Title to be Announced Invited

Optical Systems for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality

Nanguang Chen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Data-Driven Approach Towards High Quality Image Reconstruction for Optical Mammography Invited

Zhongping Chen, University of California Irvine, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Shwetadwip Chowdhury, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Phase Retrieval and Inverse Scattering with On-Chip Microscopy Invited

Liang Gao, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Rongguang Liang, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Ruikang Wang, University of Washington,
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography and its Biomedical Applications Invited

Jing Yuan, Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics, CHINA
Title to be Announced Invited

Chao Zhou, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography and its Biomedical Applications Invited

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Neural Networks

Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Kyoto Institute of Technology, JAPAN
Parallel Recording Technique for Quantitative Phase Imaging of Dynamic Object Invited

Tigran Galstian, PATQER, CANADA
Enhanced Imaging by Using Light Polarization Invited

Atanas Gotchev, Tampereen Yliopisto,
Mitigating Vergence-Accommodation Conflict in Near-Eye Displays Invited

Myung Kim, University of South Florida, USA
Surface Profiling by Digital Holography Invited

Suresh Sivanandam, University of Toronto, CANADA
Blurring the Line Between Ground and Space: Adaptive Optics for Sharper Astronomy Invited

Yeh-Wei Yu, National Central University, TAIWAN
Title to be Announced Invited

Fabrication and Instrumentation for Nanophotonics

David Brady, University of Arizona, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Yijun Ding, Synopsys, Inc, USA
Automated Design for Large and Manufacturable Metalenses Invited

Priyanka Ghosh, Manufacturing Technology Centre, UNITED KINGDOM
AI for High-Power Laser Based Manufacturing, Present and Future Invited

Tyler Hughes, Flexcompute Inc, USA
Building the Future of Photonic Design and Simulation with Machine Learning Invited

Ighodalo Idehenre, US AFRL Wright Patterson, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Jan Kaster, ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions, GERMANY
Resolving Opto-Thermoelastic Perturbation Ambiguities with Design of Experiments and Gaussian Process Regression Invited

Dylan McGuire, Ansys, Inc., CANADA
Title to be Announced Invited

Raphael Pestourie, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Martin Schubert, Meta Platforms Inc, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Jiahui Wang, Google X, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Laser-Plasma Based Acceleration and Light Sources

Alexandra Artuscio-Glimpse, NIST Boulder, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Stefanie Barz, University of Stuttgart, GERMANY
Photonic Quantum Systems: From Interference to Integration Invited

Yoon-Ho Kim, Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Title to be Announced Invited

Molly Krogstad, Quantinuum, USA
Visible Photonics for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Invited

Mehdi Namazi, Qunnect Inc., USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Raghavendra Srinivas, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Title to be Announced Invited

Frequency Combs, High-Harmonic Generation and Attoscience

Suyeon Choi, Seoul National University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Title to be Announced Invited

Daewook Kim, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Yushin Kim, Brelyon, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Susana Marcos, University of Rochester,
Portable and Wearable Visual Simulators of Eye Optical Corrections Invited

Jae-Hyeung Park, Seoul National University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Optical See-through Holographic 3D Near Eye Display with Occlusion Support Invited

Xuan Wang, Meta Platforms Inc, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Hong Hua, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, USA
Title to be Announced Visionary

Light-Matter Interactions

Becky Borrelli, L3 Technologies Inc, USA
Beyond the Horizon: Cutting-Edge Innovations in Space-Based Optics and Optical Systems Invited

Katrin Dahl, Max-PIanck-Inst fur Gravitationsphysik, GERMANY
Title to be Announced Invited

Kristian Damkjer, , USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Yves Deiss, Exail Inc, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Katherine Fountaine, Northrop Grumman Corp, USA
Design of Next-Gen Optics for Space & Defense Missions Invited

Efstratios Kehayas, G&H, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Michael Nayak, Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Andrew Nicholas, US Navy, USA
Small Orbital Debris Detection Using Lasers Invited

Julie Smith, US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Optical Communications and Hybrid Space Architecture Invited

John Conklin, Univesity of Florida,
Title to be Announced Visionary