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
Vision with a Two-photon Infrared RGB Display Invited

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

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

Takuro Ideguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mid-infrared Photothermal Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Live-cell Imaging Invited

Kate Medicus, Ruda Optical Inc., 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

FiO 2: Optical Interactions

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
Terahertz Nonlinear and Parametric Dynamics in Quantum Materials 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

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, UK
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

Bienvenu Ndagano, INRS-Energie Mat & Tele Site Varennes, Canada
Towards Ultrafast Quantum Iimaging Invited

FiO 3: Quantum Electronics

Anindya Banerji, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
Free-Space Optical Quantum Memory based on Multipass Cells 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, UK
Fluorescence Lifetime and Bio-sensing with Entangled Photons and Single-photon Cameras Invited

Robert Fickler, Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland
Quantum Frequency Conversion Controlled by Structured Light Invited

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

Eileen Otte, University of Rochester, USA
Structured Light Meets Structured Matter: Encoding and Decoding Information in Non-paraxial Light Invited

FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

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

Andrea D'Amico, NEC Laboratories America Inc., USA
Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks: From Vision to Reality Invited

Giammarco Di Sciullo, Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Stimulated Raman Scattering in Field-Deployed Coupled-Core Multi-Core Fibers Invited

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

Anna Peacock, University of Southampton, UK
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

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

Yuliya Akulova, Intel Corporation, USA
Advancements in Manufacturing Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing Invited

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

Jeffrey Driscoll, Rockley Photonics, USA
PHz Current Control in Metals and Dielectric Media Invited

Lin Du, Ohio State University, USA
Hermetic Fused Silica Packaging for Implantable Optoelectronic Systems 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
Wafer-Scale Quantum Photonics in Silicon Carbide Invited

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

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

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
Deep Ultraviolet Microscopy for Stain-Free Tissue Imaging and Cytology Diagnostics 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

FiO 7: Information Acquisition, Processing and Display

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
Simulation and Optimization of EPE Lightguides with VHOEs Invited

LS 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Hui Deng, University of Michigan, USA
Unconventional Photonics Invited

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

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

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

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

LS 2: Quantum Photonics

Emily Davis, New York University, USA
Spin Squeezing in an Ensemble of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Invited

Zeeshawn Kazi, Princeton University, USA
Massively Multiplexed Covariance Magnetometry Using Ensembles of Diamond Quantum Sensors Invited

Sara Mouradian, University of Washington, USA
Integrated Focusing Optics for Scalable Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Invited

Arno Rauschenbeutel, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Rethinking Resonance Fluorescence: Fundamental Insights and Emerging Quantum Technologies Invited

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

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

LS 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems

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

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

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

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

Diana Qiu, Yale University, USA
Many-body effects on Excited-State Dynamics and Nonlinear Optics in 2D Materials 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

LS 4: Attosecond, Strong-Field and XFEL Science

Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria, University College London, UK
Quantum Interference in Ultrafast Photoelectron Holography and Strong-Field Nonsequential Double Ionization Invited

Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University, USA
High Harmonic Generation as a Probe of Condensed Phase Systems: From Solids to Liquids Visionary

Robert Kaindl, Arizona State University, USA
Advanced Ultrafast Probes of Quantum Materials – from THz to X-rays Invited

Matthias Kling, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, USA
Petahertz Switching of Currents in Nanoscale Materials Invited