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

FiO 1: Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation

Pablo Artal, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Title to be Announced

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

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

Takuro Ideguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Title to be Announced

Kate Medicus, Ruda Optical Inc., United States
Title to be Announced

Jiali Sun, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
AI for Metrology

Florian Willomitzer, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
Title to be Announced

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FiO 2: Optical Interactions

Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Ultraminiaturized Reconfigurable Nanophotonic Devices enabled by Phase-change Material

Richard Averitt, University of California San Diego, United States
Title to be Announced

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

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

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

Christina Jörg, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, United States
Structured Light in Waveguide-based Hamiltonian Simulators

Malcolm Kadodwala, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Chiral Nanophotonics: Towards Single Molecule Chiroptical Measurements

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

Ebrahim Karimi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Title to be Announced

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

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FiO 3: Quantum Electronics

Anindya Banerji, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
Title to be Announced

Frederic Bouchard, University of Ottawa, Canada
Title to be Announced

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

Daniele Faccio, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Title to be Announced

Robert Fickler, Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland
Title to be Announced

Anna Grassellino, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, United States
Title to be Announced

Eileen Otte, University of Rochester, United States
Title to be Announced

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FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
Novel Coherent Detection for Optical Fiber Communicatoins

Andrea D'Amico, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
Open and Dissagregated Fiber Nets

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

Farzana Khatri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Optical Comms for Artemis2 Manned Moon Mission

Anna Peacock, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Silicon Core Fibers

Siddharth Varughese, Infinera Corp., United States
Optical Comms and Sensing Over Submarine Cables

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

Yuliya Akulova, Intel Corporation, United States
Title to be Announced

Andrea Blanco-Redondo, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Title to be Announced

Jeffrey Driscoll, Rockley Photonics, United States
Title to be Announced

Lin Du, Ohio State University, United States
Title to be Announced

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

Jiang Li, hQphotonics Inc., United States
Title to be Announced

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

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

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

Nanguang Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title to be Announced

Zhongping Chen, University of California Irvine, United States
Title to be Announced

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

Liang Gao, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Title to be Announced

Rongguang Liang, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
Title to be Announced

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

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

Chao Zhou, Washington University in St Louis, United States
Space-Division Multiplexed Optical Coherence Tomography and Photonic Integration

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FiO 7: Information Acquisition, Processing and Display

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

Tigran Galstian, PATQER, Canada
Enhanced Imaging by Using Light Polarization

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

Myung Kim, University of South Florida, United States
Surface Profiling by Digital Holography

Suresh Seevanadam, University of Toronto, Canada
Blurring the Line Between Ground and Space: Adaptive Optics for Sharper Astronomy

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

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LS 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials

Hui Deng, University of Michigan, United States
Title to be Announced

Patrice Genevet, Colorado School of Mines, United States
Title to be Announced

Libai Huang, Purdue University, United States
Title to be Announced

James Schuck, Columbia University, United States
Title to be Announced

Wei Xiong, University of California San Diego,
Title to be Announced

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LS 2: Quantum Science

Vladan Vuletic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Title to be Announced

Emily Davis, New York University, United States
Title to be Announced

Zeeshawn Kazi, UW Physics Department, United States
Title to be Announced

Sara Mouradian, University of Washington, United States
Title to be Announced

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

Alp Sipahigil, University of California Berkeley, United States
Title to be Announced

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LS 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems

Eunice Bae, Cornell University, United States
Title to be Announced

Jeffrey Blackburn, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Title to be Announced

James McIver, Columbia University, United States
Cavity Electrodynamics of van der Waals Heterostructures

James McIver, Columbia University, United States
Cavity Electrodynamics of van der Waals Heterostructures

Diana Qiu, Yale University, United States
Title to be Announced

Shuolong Yang, University of Chicago, United States
Title to be Announced

Hui Zhao, University of Kansas, United States
Title to be Announced

Prineha Narang, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Title to be Announced

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LS4: Attosecond, Strong-Field and XFEL Science

Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria, University College London, United Kingdom
Title to be Announced

Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University, United States
Title to be Announced

Matthias Kling, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, United States
Title to be Announced

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