Invited & Tutorial Speakers

Hsu-Hao Chang, Marvell Technology Inc., United States
Silicon Photonics from Lab to Line: Production Testing for Scalable AI Infrastructure Tutorial

Ricardo Aroca, Cisco Systems Inc., United States
From Pluggable to CPO: Advanced Packaging Strategies for Scaling Optical Interconnects Beyond 200G/lambda

Lars Brusberg, Corning Inc., Germany
Low-Loss Glass Waveguide Solutions for High-Density Optical Chip Interconnects

Frank Chang, , United States
Recent Advances in 400G per Lane Technology and the Commercialization Path to 204.8T Switching

Po Dong, Coherent Corp, United States
Implementing 400G/lane with PAM4 Modulation Using Silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators

Sasha Gazman, Microsoft, United States
Optical interconnects at scale: from validation to production

Rebecca Schaevitz, Mixx Technologies, United States
High Radix Optical Connectors for Scale Up AI networks

Robert Vallance, SENKO Advanced Components Inc, United States
Advanced Packaging for CPO: Metallic Fiber-to-PIC Interface for Detachable, High-Density Optical Connectivity

Zhichao Zhang, Intel Corporation, United States
Full Stack 200G+ Co-Packaged Copper (CPC) And Co-Packaged Optics(CPO) Solutions With Advanced Packaging And Detachable High Performance Connectors

Kerry Vahala, California Institute of Technology, United States
Toward fiber-like-loss for photonic integration from violet to near-IR Tutorial

Po Dong, Coherent Corp, United States
Implementing 400G/lane with PAM4 Modulation Using Silicon Mach-Zehnder modulators

Blair Morrison, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., Canada
Development of ultra-low loss integrated platforms for photonic quantum computing

Jelena Notaros, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for AR Displays, Biophotonics, Trapped Ions, and Beyond

Aydogan Ozcan, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Diffractive optics for optical computing

Joyce Poon, University of Toronto, Canada
AI-Driven Automation and Acceleration of Photonics Design and Test

Bhavin Shastri, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
Photonic implementation of Ising Machines

Landobasa Tobing, Institute of Microelectronics A*STAR, Singapore
High volume Photonics Heterogeneous Integration of Thin-Film Lithium Niobate and Hydrogen-Free Silicon Nitride

Ming Wu, University of California Berkeley, United States
High Port Count Optical Switches for AI Factories and Hyperscale Datacenters

Nathan Youngblood, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Phase-change memory and optical computing

Takuma Aihara, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
Membrane III-V-on-silicon laser and modulator array for 400G-per-lane optical I/O

Martin Boettcher, Heraeus Comvance, Germany
Multicore Fiber Production Scaled for Industrial Demand

Mirko Hoser, Coherent Corp, Switzerland
High Volume production of VCSELs for AI Scale Up/Out and sensing application

Fumio Koyama, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
High-Bandwidth 1060-nm VCSELs for Energy-Efficient High-Speed Optical Interconnects

Michael Larson, Lumentum Operations LLC, United States
Development of > 800mW DFB laser diodes for SiPh transceivers

Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan
Development of high bandwidth VCSEL-based CPO transceivers for AI applications

Shinya Okuda, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Differentially Driven EMLs with 100-GHz bandwidth for Next-Generation Data Center Transceivers

Yuki Yamada, NTT Corporation, Japan
Highly Reliable 200-GHz-class Vertical-Illumination Photodiode With Interference-Based Enhanced Absorption

Gregory Jasion, Optoelectronics Research Centre, United Kingdom
Modeling draw dynamics of ultra-low loss hollow-core fibers Tutorial

Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji, Microsoft, United Kingdom
Title to be Announced

Michael Frosz, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany
Advancements in Scalable Anti-Resonant HCF Fabrication

Ryota Imada, NTT Corporation, Japan
Multi-Core Fiber Cables for Long-Haul Transmissions

Osamu Kikuchi, , Japan
Title to be Announced

Tristan Kremp, Lightera OFS Laboratories, United States
Title to be Announced

Pavel Peterka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Republic
Title to be Announced

Qi Wu, Corning Inc., United States

Alexander Gaeta, Columbia University, United States
Microresonator Combs for Data Communications Tutorial

Stefano Grillanda, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
Title to be Announced

Mathilde Hary, FEMTO-ST, France
Title to be Announced

Yong-min Jung, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Title to be Announced

Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Southern California, United States
Title to be Announced

Bera Palsdottir, Lightera Denmark, Denmark
Title to be Announced

Keith Petrillo, Fibertek Inc., United States
Title to be Announced

Paul Seidler, IBM Research Europe - Zurich, Switzerland
GaP optical parametric amplifiers

Luc Thevenaz, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Title to be Announced

Stephan Pachnicke, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Digital and optical signal processing for AI intra-datacenter networks Tutorial

Rajiv Boddeda, Nokia Bell Labs France, France
Title to be Announced

Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Title to be Announced

Charis Mesaritakis, University of West Attica, Greece
Photonic hardware for AI acceleration in optical networks

Carlos Natalino, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Toward Fully Agentic Optical Networks: Unifying Provisioning, Telemetry, and Service Assurance.

Daniele Orsuti, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
DAS over Optical Transmission Systems: Architectures, Performance, and Challenges

Leyla Sadighi, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Ireland
AI-Driven Polarizaton Monitoring for Securing Optical Fiber Networks

Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Hollow core fibres supporting QKD/Data coexistance

Keren Bergman, Columbia University, United States
Photonic Interconnect Networks for AI-Driven Computing Tutorial

Janet Chen, NVIDIA Corporation, United States
Photonic Interconnect Strategies for Scale-Up Networks

Nikolaos Farmakidis, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Non-Volatile Integrated Photonics for In-Memory Optical Computing

Ryan Hamerly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Towards the Information-Theoretic Limit of Photonic Computing

Sangyoon Han, Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst of Science and Tech, Republic Of Korea
MEMS-Enabled Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits

Florian Marquardt, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts,
Nonlinear neuromorphic computing with linear wave scattering

Shu Namiki, Natl Inst of Adv Industrial Sci & Tech, Japan

Wolfram Pernice, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany
Multidimensional photonic computing

Logan Wright, Yale University, United States
Training and Programmability of Physical Photonic Neural Networks

Qiong Zhang, Amazon Web Services, United States
Tutorial

Pierpaolo Boffi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Convergence of Connectivity, Awareness and Protection in Optical Networks: can telecom and sensing coexist?

Ashwin Gumaste, Microsoft, United States
Online training of LLMs using distributed optical network infrastructure

Masahiko Jinno, Keio University, Japan
Full-Spectrum Fiber- and Core-Switching: Emerging Applications in AI Spatial-Channel Optical Fabrics and MCF Subsea Branching Units

Laia Nadal Reixats, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
Driving network resiliency and adaptive capacity scaling with innovative, programmable, and efficient solutions

Shoichiro Oda, National Inst of Information & Comm Tech, Japan
Inter-Satellite All-Optical Networks: challenges and opportunities

Yvan Pointurier, Huawei Technologies, France
Distributed AI Training in the GenAI Era

Roberto Sabella, Ericsson, Italy
Optical transport for the AI‑driven edge: from 5G‑ready infrastructures to 6G‑ready orchestration

Jesse Simsarian, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
From Wavelength Scaling toward Spatial Parallelism in the AI Traffic Era

Emmanouel (Manos) Varvarigos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
AI and Edge Compute in Optical Acces Networks Tutorial

Chris Fludger, Attotude Inc, Germany
Scaling Coherent Transceivers for Short-Reach Applications

Christoph Füllner, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
Low-cost sensing for beyond 50G PON

Ian Horsley, BT Group, United Kingdom
Operator-led developments towards greener optical access

Bhushan Padhiar, AT&T Corp, United States
Future Optical Access Networks: Opportunities and Challenges

Chathurika Ranaweera, Deakin University, Australia
Optical Wireless Access Network Convergence in the 6G era

Fabienne Saliou, Orange Labs, France
Upcoming disruptive technologies in PON from an operator perspective

Haipeng Zhang, CableLabs, United States
Coherent PON for Deployment: Efficient Optical Hardware and DSP Optimizations

Jim Zou, ADTRAN, Inc, United States
Coherent PON: Business Drivers and Evolution from Point-to-Point Transceivers to Access Deployment

Norbert Lutkenhaus, University of Waterloo, Canada
Progress on proofing the security of practical QKD Tutorial

Vanesa Diaz, LuxQuanta, Spain
CV-QKD: from technology to product

Marc Geiz, Deutsche Telekom AG Laboratories, Germany
The Path towards the Quantum Internet: A Network Operator's Perspective

John Lowell, The Boeing Company, United States
Qauntum Network in Space

Yong Meng Sua, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Developments in entanglement-based quantum networks

Jiapeng Zhao, Cisco Systems Inc., United States
Title to be Announced

Hong Liu, Google LLC,
Optical Requirements for Next-Gen Data Centers Tutorial

Christopher Doerr, Doerr Consulting, LLC, United States
Pure Silicon Photonics Modulators for 200GBaud Applications and Beyond With Low Loss and Drive Voltage

Joseph Kahn, Stanford University, United States
Near-Ideal Coherent Detection without a Local Oscillator

Ray Nguyen, Marvell Technology Inc., United States
Key Challenges in Achieving Beyond-1.6T Connectivity

George Papen, University of California San Diego, United States
The Future of Optical Circuit Switching: Towards Faster, Larger, and More Integrated Lightwave Fabrics

Sean Park, Point2 Technology Inc, United States
RF Data Transmission Over Plastic Waveguide for Energy‑Efficient AI Cluster Scale Up

David Piehler, Dell Technologies, United States
Differential Optical Interconnects and Gearbox Ellimination

Fan Zhang, Peking University,
Low-cost coherent optical communication overcoming laser phase noise

Hongbin Zhang, , United States
DSP for 400G-per-Lambda and beyond in Client Optics

David Millar, Nokia Corporation, United States
Advanced DSP and Constellation Shaping for Approaching the Shannon Limit Tutorial

Heider Ereifej, Coherent Corp, United States

Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc., United Kingdom
Ultra-Wideband Transmissions: Where We Stand and Where We’re Going

Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
Field Deployments and Subsystem Innovations for Integrated Optical Fiber Communication and Distributed Sensing

Zhaohui Li, Sun Yat-Sen University (CHINA),
Strongly Coupled Multicore Fiber Technologies for Next-Generation Optical Communications

Anaelle Maho, Thales Alenia Space France, France
Using Terrestrial Coherent DSP for Long-Range Space Optical Communications

Marco Secondini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Heng Zhang, Broadcom Corporation, United States
ADC for High Baud Rate Optical Transceivers

Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research Inc., Japan
The recent developments in ultra-high capacity transmission systems Tutorial

Robert Emmerich, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Ultra-Wideband Systems and Narrow Band Components for Multi-Band Transmission

Lipeng Feng, China Telecom Corp Ltd, Beijing Res Inst, China
Long-distance unrepeatered hollow-core fiber transmission

Aditya Kakkar, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Canada
Scaling Optical Modem Design to Meet AI Needs

Masanori Nakamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Ultra-high symbol rate transmission beyond 200 GBaud using InP-DHBT electrical multiplexing

Ruby Ospina, Nokia Bell Labs France, France
On the Interoperability of silica-core and hollow-core fiber-based links

Takeo Sasai, NTT Corporation, Japan
Longitudinal Power Monitoring: From Theory to Pluggable DSP Implementation

Ronit Sohanpal, University College London, United Kingdom
Energy efficiency analysis of ultra-wideband transmission systems

Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
Fibre Optic Sensing and its potential Tutorial

Eiichiro Araki, , Japan
Seafloor fiber sensing with DAS: scientific discoveries using optical fiber infrastructure

Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Leveraging Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Submarine Optical Fibers for Infrastructure Security and Ocean Science

Yue-Kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America Inc., United States
Application of distributed fiber sensing over deployed telecom infrastructure

Mona Jarrahi, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Photoconductive Terahertz Sources for Imaging

Huanhuan Liu, Shenzhen Univ of Advanced Tech, CAS, China
Advancing Fiber Shape Sensing: Speed and Accuracy. H

Antonio Mecozzi, Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Geophysical and Environmental Sensing using Submarine Optical Cables

Alejandro Rosado Pérez, Dublin City University, Ireland
Highlights and challenges for Optical Frequency Comb technology in the context of Fiber Optic Sensing

Frank Smyth, Pilot Photonics, Ireland
PIC based uW, mmW and THz synthesis

Lucien Canuet, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France
Opportunities and challenges of coherent satellite links

Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Embedded Communications and Sensing Using Structured Light

Simon Nellen, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Photonics driven THz communications in 6G

Chigo Okonkwo, CUbIQ Technologies, Netherlands
Complex Field Characterization for Free-Space Optical Communications using Remote Digital Holography

Alwyn Seeds, University College London, United Kingdom
Comparing terahetrz and optical inter-satellite links

Katia Shtyrkova, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, United States
Design and performance of uplink laser transmitters