Keynote and Invited Speakers
1. Optical Design, Optical Materials, and Photo Lithography
Keynote Speaker
- Tu1B-01 Michael Totzeck (Carl Zeiss AG, Germany) “Digital Optics and Industry 4.0”
Invited Speakers
- Tu1B-02 Ching-Cherng Sun (National Central Univ. , Taiwan) “LED Solid State Lighting : from Light Sources to Lighting Quality”
- Tu2B-01 Yoshimasa Suzuki (Olympus Corporation, Japan) “Simple and effective illumination to visualize iPS cell colonies”
- Tu2B-02 Lei Tian (Boston Univ. , USA) “Computational 3D Phase Microscopy using coded illumination”
2. Vision, Color, Display and Lighting
Keynote Speaker
- Tu2C-01 Byoungho Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea) “3D Displays for Augmented Reality”
Invited Speakers
- Tu2C-04 Yusuke Fujii (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan) “Development of Liquid Crystal Display with RGB Laser Backlight”
- Th2B-01 Markku Hauta-Kasari (Univ. of Eastern Finland, Finland) “Spectral Imaging in Medical Applications”
- Tu2C-03 Yun-Li (Charles) Li (PlayNitride Inc., Taiwan) “Development on next generation display technology”
- M1C-02 Tatiana A. Sergan and Vassili Sergan (California State Univ., Sacramento, USA) “In-situ control of surface molecular order in nematic liquid crystals using a localized polymer network and its application to optical elements”
- M1C-01 Yongtian Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China) “Optical Design with Annularly Stitched Aspheric Surface”
- M1C-03 Dong-Sing Wuu (National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan) “Enhancing Nitride LED Performance Using an External Electron Retarding Layer”
3. Optical Metrology
Keynote Speaker
- Th1A-01 Nathalie Piqué (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany) “Laser Frequency Combs for Broadband Molecular Spectroscopy”
Invited Speakers
- W1A-01 Ian Coddington (NIST, USA) “Dual-comb spectroscopy for precision green-house gas measurement”
- M1A-01 Keisuke Goda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) “Large-Scale Single-Cell Analysis with Extreme Imaging”
- Tu2A-01 Naoshi Murakami (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) “Astronomical high-contrast techniques toward direct imaging of Earth-like exoplanets”
- Tu1A-01 Tetsu Sakai (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan) “Next-generation water vapor lidar for forecast of localized heavy rainfall in urban areas”
- F1A-01 Joseph Shaw (Montana State Univ., USA) “All-Sky Polarization Imaging for Remote Sensing of Cloud Thermodynamic Phase”
4. Optical Imaging and Optical Information Processing
Keynote Speaker
- Tu1F-01 Demetri Psaltis (EPFL, Swizerland) “Optical systems implemented with multimode fibers”
Invited Speakers
- W1F-01 Andrew Forbes (Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) “Ghost imaging with entanglement swapped photons”
- Th1F-01 Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellin, Colombia) “Telecentric imaging in digital holographic microscopy”
- Tu2F-01 Alexander Heisterkamp (Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany) “Laser-based imaging in biology and medicine, from the micro- to mesoscale”
- M1F-01 Monika Ritsch-Marte (Medical Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria) “Multiplane imaging by means of wavefront shaping”
- Tu2F-02 Yunlong Sheng (Université Laval, Canada) “Biological cell 3D signal assay using optical tweezers manipulation”
5. Advanced Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Keynote Speaker
- Th2F-01 Colin J. R. Sheppard (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) “Image scanning microscopy: The new confocal microscope” **Prof. Sheppard will be presented in SLM joint Symposium
Invited Speakers
- Th3F-01 Rainer Heinzmann (Jena Univ., Germany) “super resolution microscopy”
- F1J-01 Chia-Lung Hsieh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) “Label-Free, Ultrahigh-Speed Imaging Unveils Nanoscopic Dynamics in Live Cells”
- Th3F-02 Xu Liu (Zhejiang Univ., China) “Optical superresolution microscopy based on spatial frequency shift: the mechanism and techniques”
- W1C-02 Pablo Loza-Alvarez (ICFO, Spain) “Fast imaging in light sheet microscopy”
- W1C-01 Tomomi Nemoto (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) “Improvement of multi-photon microscopy by utilizing new optical technologies”
- Tu2D-01 Jürgen Popp (Institute of Photonics Technology, Germany) “Raman spectroscopy”
6. Biomedical Optics/Photonics
Keynote Speaker
- W1D-01 David Sampson (Univ. of Western Australia, Australia) “The emerging prospects of optical elastography in biomedicine”
Invited Speakers
- Th1B-01 Regine Choe (Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, USA) “Diffuse Optical and Correlation Tomography for Monitoring Bone Healing”
- M1D-02 Makoto Fujimaki (AIST, Japan) “An External Force-Assisted Near-Field Illumination Biosensor for Detection of Extremely Low Concentrations of Biological Substances”
- M1D-01 Hiro-o Hamaguchi (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan) “Converting Raman spectral big data into a clinical data sheet”
- Th3B-01 Norihiro Honda (Osaka Univ., Japan) “Biological tissue optical properties measurement for photomedicine”
- Tu1C-01 Roberto Pini (Istitute of Applied Physics (IFAC-CNR) National Research Council of Italy, Italy) “Advances on Light-excited Nano-gold and Graphene for Theranostics, Drug Delivery and Sensing”
7. Nonlinear Optics
Keynote Speaker
- Tu1D-01 Martin Fejer (Stanford Univ., USA) “Quasi-Phasematched Nonlinear Optics: Single Photons to Multiple Octaves”
Invited Speakers
- W1E-01 Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh (ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain) “Optical Parametric Oscillators: New Frontiers in Spectral and Time Domain”
- W1E-06 Hiroaki Minamide (RIKEN, Japan) “Pioneering Terahertz-wave Technology based on Nonlinear Optics”
- M1E-01 Yusuke Mori (Osaka Univ., Japan) “Recent Progress in Nonlinear Optical Crystal CsLiB₆O₁₀”
- Tu1D-08 Florian Sedlmeir (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany) “Nonlinear optics in a whispering gallery mode resonator”
- Th1C-01 Shigeki Takeuchi (Kyoto Univ.,Japan ) “Broadband frequency-entangled photons for novel quantum nonlinear optics”
8. Ultrafast Phenomena and Ultrafast Optics
Keynote Speaker
- M1G-01 Arya Fallahi (CFEL at DESY, Hamburg, Germany) “Towards THz Accelerator Based X-ray Sources”
Invited Speakers
- Th3D-01 Eric Mazur (Harvard Univ., USA) “Less is More: Extreme Optics with Zero Refractive Index (tentative)”
- Th2D-01 Lino Misoguti (Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil) “Study of the Influence of the Temporal Pulse Width on Optical Nonlinearities: Liquids and Gases”
9. High Power Lasers and Applications
Keynote Speaker
- Th1D-01 Thomas Südmeyer (Univ. of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) “Ultrafast Solid-State Lasers: State-of-the-art and New Frontiers”
Invited Speakers
- Th2C-01 John Collier (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K.) “Demonstration of a 100-J level nanosecond diode pumped solid state laser”
- Th3C-01 Hakaru Mizoguchi (Gigaphoton Inc., Japan) “Performance of 250 watt LPP-EUV source”
- Th3C-05 Chang Hee Nam (Institute for Basic Science, GIST, Korea) “Development of a 4 PW Ti:Sapphire Laser at CoReLS”
- Th2C-02 Fabien Tissandier (ENSTA-ParisTech, France) “Towards a compact and ultrafast plasma-based circularly-polarized soft X-ray laser”
10. X-ray and High-energy Optics
Keynote Speaker
- M1N-02 Janos Kirz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) “X-ray Optics and Microscopy – the first 121 years”
Invited Speakers
- Tu1N-01 Manuel Guizar-Sicairos (PSI, Switzerland) “Ptychographic nanotomography – pushing quantitative 3D X-ray imaging beyond lens limitations”
- M1N-03 Kenji Tamasaku (RIKEN, Japan) “SACLA: A Compact X-ray Free-Electron Laser”
- Tu2N-02 Patrick Naulleau (BNL, USA) “Extreme Ultraviolet Systems for Imaging and Metrology at the Nanoscale”
- Tu2N-01 Andreas Schropp (DESY, Germany) “Aberration-Free Nano-Focusing with Refractive Optics”
- Tu1N-04 Wenbing Yun (Sigray, USA) “A New Generation of Novel High Brightness X-ray Sources and High Efficiency X-ray Optic”
11. Microwave/Millimeterwave/THz Photonics
Keynote Speaker
- Tu2G-01 Holger Ruecker (IHP-Microelectronics, Germany) “Silicon Technology for Millimeter and Terahertz Waves”
Invited Speakers
- M1H-01 Yutong Li (Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) “Strong terahertz radiation from intense laser-foil interactions”
- Tu2G-02 Kyung Hyun Park (ETRI, Korea) “Progresses and Challenges Toward THz Photonics for Industrial Applications”
- Tu1G-01 Jin-Wei Shi (National Central Univ., Taiwan) “Fully Integrated Photonic Microwave/Millimeter-Waves Frequency Tracking Synthesizer on Heterogeneous III-V/Si Platform”
- Tu1G-02 Takeshi Yasui (Tokushima Univ., Japan) “Adaptive Sampling Dual THz Comb Spectroscopy”
12. Near Field Optics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials
Keynote Speaker
- Tu2H-01 Thomas Ebbesen (Univ. of Strasbourg, France) “Hybridizing Light and Matter – Implications for Material and Molecular Sciences -“
Invited Speakers
- Tu1H-07 Xiao Hu (NIMS, Japan) “Topological Optic Pheonomena in Photonic Crystals”
- W1H-01 Keiji Sasaki (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) “Plasmonic Manipulation with Nano-Vortex Fields”
- Tu2H-05 Din Ping Tsai (National Taiwan Univ., Academia Sinica, Taiwan) “Plasmonic Metasurface for Photonics Applications in Demand”
- W1H-02 Ta-Jen Yen (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan) “Three THz metadevices: double-sided perfect absorber, miniature surface plasmon polariton amplitude modulator, and 3D negative index medium”
- Tu1H-01 Anatoly Zayats (King’s College London, UK) “Photonic Spin-Hall Effects in Plasmonics and Metamaterials”
13. Photonic Crystal, Nano Structures and Functions
Keynote Speaker
- F1E-01 Marin Soljacic (MIT, USA) “Topological phenomena in nanophotonics”
Invited Speakers
- Tu2K-01 Benjamin Eggleton (CUDOS, Univ. of Sydney, Australia) “Harnessing photon-phonon interactions in nanoscale integrated circuits”
- Th1E-01 Jonathan Finley (TU Munich, Germany) “Monolithically integrated nanowire lasers with ultrafast emission dynamics”
- Th2E-01 Song Jin (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA) “Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires for High-Performance Lasing and Optoelectronic Applications”
- Th3E-01 Mercedeh Khajavikhan (CREOL, Univ. of Florida, USA) “Parity-Time-Symmetric Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point”
14. Optoelectronics and Photonic Devices
Keynote Speaker
- Tu1J-01 Kent D. Choquette (Univ. of Illinois, USA) “Vertical cavity lasers after forty years: status and prospects”
Invited Speakers
- M1J-01 Kazuue Fujita (Hamamatsu Photonics KK, Japan) “Mid-infrared and terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on dual-upper-state active region design”
- W1J-01 Dan Marom (Hebrew Univ., Israel) “Space division mltiplexed optical networks”
- Tu2J-01 Wei Zhang (Tsinghua Univ., China) “Quantum light sources based on silicon devices and their application in temporal quantum ghost imaging”
15. Optical MEMS and Micro-optics
Keynote Speaker
- Th1G-01 Niels Quack (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) “Optical Switching with Silicon Photonic MEMS”
Invited Speakers
- Th1G-03 Masahide Goto (NHK Sciences & Technology Research Labs., Japan) “CMOS Image Sensors with Pixel-Wise A/D Converters Developed by 3D Integration Technology”
- Th1G-02 Kota Ito (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan) “Thermal devices based on electromagnetic heat transfer”
- Th2G-01 Takeshi Kawano (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech., Japan) “3D microtube and 2D flexible film waveguides for optical neural interfaces”
- Th2G-02 Tadao Matsunaga (Tohoku Univ., Japan) “High-resolution single fiber endoscope and fiber-optic micro sensor fabricated using MEMS technology for medical applications”
16. Quantum Optics and Atom Optics
Keynote Speaker
- Th1H-01 Yoshihisa Yamamoto (ImPACT, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) “Quantum Neural Network for Combinatorial Optimization and Boltzmann Sampling”
Invited Speakers
- Th1H-02 Jaewook Ahn (KAIST, Korea) “Rydberg-atom quantum computation”
- Th2H-01 Peter Banzer (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany) “Photonic Wheels and Transverse Angular Momenta of Light”
- F1H-01 Andrew Horsley (Univ. of Basel, Switzerland) “Quantum Metrology with Atoms, NV Centres, and Mechanical Oscillators”
- W1G-01 Hidetoshi Katori (Riken/Univ. of Tokyo, Japan ) “Connecting optical lattice clocks at 10-18 uncertainty”
- W1G-04 Matthias Keller (Univ. of Sussex, UK) “Interfacing ions and photons”
- Th3H-01 Döndü Sahin (Univ. of Bristol, UK) “Waveguide-Integrated Photon Detectors for Enabling Quantum Technologies”
17. Fiber Optics
Keynote Speaker
- Th3G-01 Kazuo Hotate (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) “Fiber optic nerve systems for smart structures and smart materials that can feel pain”
Invited Speakers
- Tu1K-01 F. Ömer Ilday (Bilkent Univ., Turkey) “Ablation-cooled Laser-material Removal with GHz-repetition-rate Fibre Lasers”
- F1G-02 Khanh Kieu (Univ. of Arizona, USA) “Compact fiber-based ultrafast laser sources for multiphoton microscopy”
- F1G-01 Siddharth Ramachandran (Boston Univ., USA) “Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light in fiber”
18. Optical Communications and Photonic Network
Keynote Speaker
- Tu1E-01 Kenichi Kitayama (The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries (GPI), NICT , Japan) “Scaling-out Integrated Photonics : Mode Division Multiplexing Optical Interconnect”
Invited Speakers
- Tu2E-03 Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku Univ., Japan) “Wireless Evolution Toward 5G Mobile Communications Network”
- Tu1E-07 Dominique Chiaroni (Nokia, Bell Labs, France) “Network Energy: Problematic and solutions towards sustainable ICT”
- Tu2E-01 Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku Univ., Japan) “Recent Progress on Ultra-High Capacity Optical Transmission using Multi-Level, Multi-Core, and Multi-Mode Techniques”
- Tu2E-02 Naoya Wada (NICT, Japan) “High capacity SDM transmission and flexible optical integrated network technologies”
- Tu1E-04 Jian Wang (Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China) “Optical Communications Using Orbital Angular Momentum: Progress and Perspective”
