C1. Solid State, Fiber, and Other Laser Sources

• Dr Alessia Pasquazi, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
  Presentation Title: Laser cavity-soliton microcombs: properties and perspectives
• Professor David Spence, Macquarie University, Australia
  Presentation Title: Crystalline Raman lasers for single mode operation
• Professor Zhigang Zhang, Beijing University, China
  Presentation Title: Recent progress in coherent pulse combination technologies

C2. Ultrafast and Nonlinear Phenomena

• Dr Xin Gai, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SA
  Presentation Title: Highly nonlinear photonic devices for ultrafast signal processing
• Professor Dr. Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Presentation Title: Lithium Niobate and Other Quadratic Materials for Nanophotonic Devices
• Professor Zhipei Sun, Aalto University, Finland
  Presentation Title: Nano-Materials for Quantum Nonlinear Photonics

C3. Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications

• Dr Hou-Tong Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
  Presentation Title: Metasurfaces accomplish ultra-broadband optical polarization conversions
• Dr Daniel M. Mittleman, School of Engineering at Brown University, USA
  Presentation Title: Low latency link discovery for terahertz wireless networks
• Prof. Dr. Clara Saraceno, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  Presentation Title: High-power THz sources based on ultrafast thin-disk lasers
• Assistant Professor Yasuaki Monnai, Keio University, Japan
  Presentation Title: Terahertz Radar Based on Leaky-wave Coherence Tomography

C4. High Power, High Energy Lasers

• Dr Mark Dubinskiy, US Army Research Labs, USA
  Presentation Title: Power scaling of Er-doped fluoride fiber laser at ~2.8 um: conventional and upconversion pumping
• Dr Eiji Takahashi, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Japan
  Presentation Title: Multi-TW optical waveform synthesizer for gigawatt soft-x-ray isolated attosecond pulses
• Dr Wenxue Li, East China Normal University, China 
  Presentation Title: Femtosecond Optical Frequency Combs and Dual-comb Spectroscopy

C5. Laser Processing and Innovative Applications

• Professor Roberta Ramponi, IFN-CNR (CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies) and Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Presentation Title: Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: A powerful tool for Integrated Diamond Quantum Photonics and Sensing
• Professor Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
  Presentation Title: Embedded Photonics for Energy Efficient Scalable Computing
• A/Prof Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Keio University, Japan
  Presentation Title: Multiphoton photoreduction in hydrogel

C6. Optical and Photonic Metrology

• Dr Guoqing Chang, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
  Presentation Title: Coherent microscopy driven by fiber-optic ultrafast source: new light choice
• Dr Laura Sinclair, NIST, USA
  Presentation Title: Increasing the Range of Comb-Based Optical Time Transfer
• Takuro Ideguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: Advanced vibrational spectroscopy and microscopy

C7. Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics and Quantum Information

• Professor Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  Presentation Title: Non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated quantum gases
• Associate Professor Jevon Longdell, University of Otago, New Zealand
  Presentation Title: Hybrid quantum systems using magnetically ordered rare earth ions
• Associate Professor Atsushi Noguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: Quantum manipulations with artificial radiation pressure in superconducting circuits
• Dr Jacqueline Romero, University of Queensland, Australia
  Presentation Title: Adventures in Hilbert Space: Quantum Information Using the Shape of Light

C8. Micro and Nanophotonics, and Light Trapping

• Professor Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  Presentation Title: Light-induced forces induced by and acting on resonant nanostructures
• Professor Ruwen Peng, Nanjing University, China
  Presentation Title: From passive to active manipulation of the polarization states of light via metastructures
• Professor Hongxing Xu, Wuhan University, China
  Presentation Title: Ultrasensitive optical spectroscopy of plasmonic nanocavity

C9. Optical Communication Systems and Networks

• Professor Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA
  Presentation Title: The Evolution of Optical Data Center Network Architectures
• Professor Christine Tremblay, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
  Presentation Title: Performance prediction of established lightpaths using machine learning and field data
• Dr Junwen Zhang, Cable Labs, USA
  Presentation Title: Next-Generation High-speed Access Network for Emerging Services

C10. Optical Fiber and Waveguide Technologies

• Professor Liang Dong, Clemson University, USA
  Presentation Title: All-solid photonic bandgap fibers in high-power fiber lasers
• Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
  Presentation Title: Functionalization of optical fibers at the nano/micron-scale: Pathway to novel and improved sensors
• A/Prof Dawn Tan, Singapore University of Technology and Design
  Presentation Title: Advances in Nonlinear CMOS Photonics
• Professor Yasuhiro Koike, Keio University Japan
  Presentation Title: Recent Progress of GI-POF towards 8K and 5G Era

C11. Semiconductor and Integrated Optical Devices

• Professor Yeshaiahu Fainman, University of California San Diego, USA
  Presentation Title: Heterogeneously integrated on-chip nanolasers
• Professor Nobuhiko Nishiyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: III-V/SOI lasers on heterogeneous photonic integration platform
• Dr Winnie Ye, Carleton University, Canada
  Presentation Title: Silicon-based photonics for telecommunication and data communication

C12. Silicon Photonics

• Associate Professor Amy Foster, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  Presentation Title: Heterogeneous nonlinear silicon photonics
• Professor Graham Reed, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Presentation Title: Large tunable refractive index changes in silicon enabling tunable photonic devices
• Professor Hon-Ki Tsang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  Presentation Title: Multimode silicon photonic devices for high capacity optical communications

C13. Optical Signal Processing

• Dr Simon Gross, Macquarie University Australia
  Presentation Title: Applications of 3D waveguides in optical systems
• Hoon Kim, KAIST, Korea
  Presentation Title: Beam control and tracking techniques for free-space optical communications
• Leslie Rusch, Laval, Canada
  Presentation Title: Optical Signal Processing for Coherent Communications
  

C14. Advanced 2D Materials for Photonics and Energy

• Professor Chunxiao Cong, Fudan University, China
  Presentation Title: Synthesis and optical properties of high quality two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides materials 
• Professor Fengqiu Wang, Nanjing University, China
  Presentation Title: Probing and controlling the photocarrier dynamics in emerging low-dimensional materials
• Professor Xiangping Li, Jinan University, China
  Presentation Title: Atomically thin 2D meta-optics
• Associate Professor Gwan-Hyoung Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
  Presentation Title: Modulation of exciton and trion in Light-emitting devices based on van der Waals heterostructures

C15. Biophotonics and Applications

• Professor Katharina Gaus, University of New South Wales, Australia
  Presentation Title: Single Molecule Imaging of T Cell Receptor Signalling
• Professor Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  Presentation Title: Ultralight Headmount Two-photon Camera for NeuroImaging on Freely Walking/Rotating Rodents
• Dr Kevin Tsia, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong SAR
  Presentation Title: Multi-Scale Biological Imaging Using Infinity Mirror

C16. Plasmonics and Metamaterials

• Professor Jean-Jacques Greffet, Universite Paris-Saclay, France
  Presentation Title: Tailoring Incandescence and Photoluminescence of Thermalized Ensembles of Emitters with Resonant Plasmonic Metasurfaces
• Professor Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, USA
  Presentation Title: Tailoring light-matter interactions in novel metastructures
• Professor Dragomir Neshev, Australian National University, Australia
  Presentation Title: Dielectric metasurfaces for nonlinear frequency conversion

C17. Optical Sensors and Systems

• Professor Andrea Armani, University of Southern California, USA
  Presentation Title: The Next Dimension of Detection: Biomechanical Analysis of Tissue using Optical Elastography
• Professor Duncan Hand, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
  Presentation Title: Laser micro-processing of glass for flexible manufacture of optical sensors
• Dr Michel Niewoudt, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  Presentation Title: Raman Spectroscopic Methods for Characterizing the Age and Sex of Human Cortical Bone

C18. Imaging, Display, Storage Technologies and Solid State Lighting

• Professor Seung-Yeol Lee, Kyungpook National University, Korea
  Presentation Title: Tunable optical Janus effect with liquid-permeable meta-film layers 
• Professor Wen Qiao, Soochow University, China
  Presentation Title: Diffractive element based glasses-free 3D display
• Professor Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  Presentation Title: Electronic holographic display using MEMS SLMs

C19. Microwave Photonics

• Associate Professor Camille-Sophie Brès, EPFL, Switzerland
  Presentation Title: Exploiting soliton states of micro-resonator for reconfigurable microwave photonic filters
• Dr Liwei Li, University of Sydney, Australia
  Presentation Title: High resolution sensing based on microwave photonics
• Dr Franklyn Quinlan, NIST, USA
  Presentation Title: High Spectral Purity Microwave Photonics
• Assistant Professor Xiangchuan Wang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
  Presentation Title: GPS over fiber for high accuracy 3D baseline measurement

C20. Astrophotonics and Gravitational Wave Detection

• Assistant Professor Keiko Kokeyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic laser interferometer for gravitational wave detection
• Dr Sarah Tedder, NASA, USA
  Presentation Title: Photonic Lanterns for Space to Ground Photon Counting Optical Communication
• Dr Robert Ward, Australian National University, Australia
  Presentation Title: Astrophysics at the quantum limit: improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors

AOS Prize Winners

• Professor Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University
  Presentation Title: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics Applications
• Dr Jiawen Li, University of Adelaide
  Presentation Title: Co-located sensing and imaging via a single fibre 
• Dr Ke Wang, RMIT University
  Presentation Title: Neural Networks and Spatial Domain Technologies in High-Speed Optical Wireless Communications