Co-Chairs
General Chairs
Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Elaine Wong, University of Melbourne, Australia
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research, UK
Program Chairs
Lara Garrett, Subcom, USA
Mei Du, Tata Communications, USA
Xiaodan Pang, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH), Sweden
Subcommittees
D-Track: Devices, Components and Fibers
D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration
Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M University, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Juthika Basak, Nokia Corporation, USA
Molly Piels, OpenLight, USA
Xi Xiao, NOIEC, China
An Bin Wang, Alibaba Group, China
Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
Janet Chen, Lumentum, USA
Li Yang, Suzhou Dawning Semi Technology Co., Ltd., China
Hong Nguyen, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics, France
Daniel Kuchta, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Yoojin Ban, imec, Belgium
Sudip Shekhar, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sabarni Palit, ANELLO Photonics, USA
D2: Passive Components
Milos Popovic, Ayar Labs, Boston University, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California, USA
Sagi Mathai, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Laurent Vivien, Universite de Paris XI Paris Sud, France
Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Thalia Dominguez Bucio, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
Keita Yamaguchi, NTT Corporation, Japan
Matteo Cherchi, Xanadu, Canada
Mario Dagenais, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Sonia Garcia-Blanco, ALUVIA, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Takako Hirokawa, Global Foundries, USA
D3: Active Components
Guo-Qiang (Patrick) Lo, Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), USA, Subcommittee Chair
M. Ashkan Seyedi, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Joyce Poon, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany
Shi Wei, Université Laval, Canada
Gong-Ru Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Hai-Feng Liu, HGGenuine, USA
Patrick Runge, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Johann Peter Reithmaier, Universitat Kassel, Germany
Yuichi Tohmori, Tsurugi Photonics Foundation, Japan
Changzheng Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Jessie Rosenberg, Lightmatter, USA
Chao Xiang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Liu Liu, Zhejiang University, China
Connie Chang-Hasnain, Berxel Photonics Co. Ltd, USA
D4: Fibers and Propagation Physics
Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France, Subcommittee Chair
Takashi Matsui, NTT Corporation, Japan
Aramais Zakharian, Corning Inc, USA
Georg Rademacher, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Natalie Wheeler, University of Southampton, UK
Jose Antonio-Lopez, University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
Jin-Xing Cai, SubCom LLC, USA
Tristan Kremp, OFS Fitel LLC, USA
Jiajing Tu, Jinan University, China
Lauren Dallachiesa, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Yuki Kawaguchi, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Japan
Chiara Lasagni, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers and Nonlinear Waveguides
John Ballato, Clemson University, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Yi Sun, OFS, USA
Sergei Nikitin, OOO T8 Sensor, Russia
Xiaoying Li, Tianjin University, China
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT Corporation, Japan
Lawrence Chen, McGill University, Canada
Masato Tanaka, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Japan
Seongwoo Yoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Vladimir Gordienko, Aston University, UK
Victor Kopp, Chiral Photonics, USA
Peter Dragic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Anna Peacock, University of Southampton, UK
Enkeleda Balliu, Cobolt AB, a part of Hübner Photonics, Sweden
Hesham Sakr, Microsoft Corp, UK
S-Track: Subsystems and Systems
S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems
Thomas (Trey) Greer, NVIDIA, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Jingchi Cheng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Fan Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Robert Borkowski, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Clint Schow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Brandon Buscaino, Ciena Corporation, USA
Jeffrey Rahn, Meta Platforms Inc, USA
Xin (Scott) Yin, Ghent University — imec, Belgium
Kangping Zhong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Fabio Bottoni, Cisco, Italy
S2: Transmission Subsystems
Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Dario Pilori, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
David Millar, Infinera Corporation, USA
Gabriele Liga, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Ke Wang, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
John Downie, Corning Inc, USA
Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Yi Cai, ZTE, USA
Georg Böcherer, Huawei, Germany
Shota Ishimura, KDDI Research, Japan
Chen Zhu, Baidu, China
Zhixin Liu, University College London, UK
S3: Transmission Systems
Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Antonio Mecozzi, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Sergejs Makovejs, Corning Inc, UK
Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research, Japan
Masanori Nakamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Haik Mardoyan, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Gabriel Charlet, Huawei Technologies, France
Ruben Soares Luís, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Olga Vassilieva, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., USA
Boris Karanov, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
S4: Optical Processing, Microwave Photonics and Fiber-Sensing
Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Lalitha Ponnampalam, University College London, UK
Tomoyuki Kato, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City University, Ireland
Xiaoke Yi, University of Sydney, Australia
Abel Lorences-Riesgo, Huawei Technologies, France
Nazanin Hoghooghi, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Adonis Bogris, University of West Attica, Greece
María Rosario Fernández-Ruiz, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Mark Pelusi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
S5: Free-Space (FSO), Ranging (LiDAR) and Radio-over-Fiber (RoF)
Maria Morant, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, Subcommittee Chair
Bernhard Schrenk, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
James Lott, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Jhih-Heng Yan, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan
Oskars Ozolins, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
Boon Ooi, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Chao Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Katherine Newell, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
Kevin Shortt, Airbus, Germany
Rakesh Sambaraju, Vitex LLC, USA
Michael Eiselt, IEEE, USA
Simon Rommel, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
David Marpaung, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
N-Track: Networks and Services
N1: Advances in Development of Systems, Networks and Services
Stephan Pachnicke, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Dirk Van Den Borne, Juniper Networks Inc., Germany
Binbin Guan, Microsoft Corp, USA
Mattia Cantono, Google LLC, USA
Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Jeremie Renaudier, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Lynn Nelson, AT&T Labs, USA
Md. Saifuddin Faruk, Bangor University, UK
Shikui Shen, China Unicom, China
Sander Jansen, Adtran, Germany
Qiong Zhang, Amazon Web Services, Texas
Carmen Mas Machuca, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Jean-Christophe Antona, Alcatel Submarine Networks, France
Robert Maher, Infinera, USA
N2: Optical Networking for Data Center and Computing Applications
Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, McGill University, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research, UK
Nicola Calabretta, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Liam Barry, Dublin City University, Ireland
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA
George Michelogiannakis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Qixiang Cheng, University of Cambridge, UK
Shu Namiki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Chaoran Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Angelina Totovic, Celestial AI, Greece
Osamu Moriwaki, NTT Corporation, Japan
N3: Architectures and Software-Defined Control for Metro and Core Networks
Daniel Kilper, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Subcommittee Chair
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Murat Yuksel, University of Central Florida, USA
Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Jesse Simsarian, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Marija Furdek, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Ricard Vilalta, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Yvan Pointurier, Huawei Technologies, France
Jiawei Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Juliana de Santi, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services
Jim Zou, Adtran, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Annachiara Pagano, Telecom Italia, Italy
Lilin Yi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Nan Chi, Fudan University, China
Yuanqiu Luo, Futurewei Technologies Inc, USA
Chathurika Ranaweera, Deakin University, Australia
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Lihua Ruan, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China
Sarvesh Bidkar, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Haipeng Zhang, CableLabs, USA
Yanni Ou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Paul Wright, British Telecom, UK
Gaël Simon, Orange Labs, France
N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit & Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only)
Werner Weiershausen, Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Lisa Huff, Omdia, USA
Martin Birk, Curbius, USA
Kentaro Nakamura, Fujitsu Network Communications Inc, Japan
Paulina Gomez, Ciena Corporation, Canada
Yoshiaki Sone, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Di Liang, University of Michigan, USA
Tim Doiron, Infinera, USA
Vipul Bhatt, Coherent, USA
Stephan Neidlinger, ADVA, Germany
Zuowei Shen, Google LLC, USA
Anuj Malik, Cisco Systems Inc, USA
Subcommittee Q: Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking
Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Gregory Kanter, NuCrypt, USA
Rui Wang, University of Bristol, UK
Michael Kues, Hannover University, Germany
Rui Lin, Chalmers tekniska högskola, Sweden
Eleni Diamanti, CNRS, France
Andrew Lord, BT Applied Research, UK
Hannes Hübel, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Li Qian, University of Toronto, Canada
Tobias Gehring, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Taofiq Paraiso, Toshiba Europe, UK
Fabio Sciarrino, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Feihu Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Lai Zhou, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, China
Subcommittee: Demo Zone
Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Paolo Monti, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany
David Millar, Infinera Corporation, USA
Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric, Japan
Luiz Anet Neto, IMT Atlantique, France
Chigo Okonkwo, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Benjamin Puttnam, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dora van Veen, Nokia Corporation, USA
Georgios Zervas, University College London, UK
Ligia Zorello, Meta, USA
Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pedro Freire, Aston University, UK
Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
Shuyi Yan, Cisco Systems Inc, USA
Steering Committee
Optica
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA, Chair
Ramon Casellas, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Andrew Lord, BT Applied Research, UK
Laurent Schares, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
IEEE/Communications Society
Stephen B. Alexander, Ciena Corporation, USA
Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California Davis, USA
Loukas Paraschis, IEEE Communication Society, USA
Ann von Lehmen, DARPA, USA
IEEE/Photonics Society
Gabriella Bosco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Jörg-Peter Elbers, Adtran, Germany
Fatima Garcia Gunning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Dalma Novak, Pharad LLC, USA
Ex-Officio
Jiajia Chen, TikTok, USA
Mei Du, TATA Communications, USA
Johannes Fischer, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
Chris Fludger, Infinera, Germany
Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia/Bell Labs, USA
Lara Garrett, SubCom, USA
Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo Electrc Industries Ltd., Japan
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research, UK
Xiaodan Pang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol, UK
Elaine Wong, University of Melbourne, Australia
Budget Committee
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corporation, USA
Douglas M. Razzano, IEEE Photonics Society, USA
Elizabeth A. Rogan, Optica, USA
Seb Savory, University of Cambridge, UK
Harold Tepper, IEEE Communications Society, USA
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA
Long Range Planning Committee
Steven Alexander, Ciena Corporation, USA, Chair
Fred Bartholf, Comcast, USA
Jörg-Peter Elbers, Adtran, Germany
Stu Elby, MSG Ventures, USA
Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USA
Loukas Paraschis, IEEE Communication Society, USA
Douglas M. Razzano, IEEE Photonics Society, USA
Elizabeth A. Rogan, Optica, USA
Harold Tepper, IEEE Communications Society, USA
Vijay Vusirikala, Google, USA
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Communications, Inc., USA
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA
Peter Winzer, Nubis Communications, USA