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

Tara Fortier, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Optical Frequency Combs 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

Giulia Fulvia Mancini, University of Pavia, Italy
Ultrafast ptycography of vortex beams and their interaction with matter Invited

Logan Wright,Yale University, USA
High-dimensional optical waves Invited

Xiaoqin Li,University of Texas Austin, USA
2D electronic spectroscopy of 2D and plasmonic materials Invited

Michael Chini,The Ohio State University, USA
Ultrafast Waveform-Controlled Mid-IR Laser 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

Sergei Slussarenko, Griffith University, Australia
Quantum metrology Invited

Ebrahim Karimi, Chapman Univerisity, USA
Structured photons and their applications Invited

Stefanie Barz, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Integrated photonics for quantum networking Invited

Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
Nonclassical sources for quantum sensing Invited

FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Boon Ooi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton University, USA
Simultaneous Communication and Sensing with OAM Invited

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

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

Chaoran Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
 Exploring applications of optical neural networks Invited

Young-ik Sohn, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea
 PDK components for scalable photonic integrated circuits 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

Teruyoshi Nobukawa, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan
Incoherent Digital Holography 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

Nektarios Koukourakis, Zeiss, Germany
Information Acquisition…digital holography for label-free tomography of 3D refractive index distributions  Invited

Jie Zhang, TU Dresden, Germany
Information Transmission through Scattering Media with Neuromorphic Computing Invited

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

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

Nathaniel Hai, Boston University, USA
Breaching fundamental limits in biomedicine with multiphoton photothermal microscopy Invited

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

Tomas Sluka, CREAL, Switzerland
Title to be Announced Invited

Jakob Dremel,  Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Eficient encoding and decoding method, computer-generated holography Invited

LS 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

 

LS 2: Quantum Photonics

 

LS 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems
Alice Kunin,  Princeton University , USA
Title to be Announced Invited

James Gaynor,  Northwestern University , USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Edoardo Baldini, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Title to be Announced Invited

Todd Krauss, University of  Rochester, USA
Photophysical Dynamics of Colloidal Nanocrystals in the Strong Light-Matter Coupling Limit ​​​​​​​Invited

Vasili  Perebeinos, SUNY Buffalo​​​​​​​, USA
Modeling of linear and non-linear optical response in low-dimensional material ​​​​​​​Invited

 

LS 4: Attosecond, Strong-Field and XFEL Science