2025 Organizing Committee

GENERAL CHAIR

Georg Rademacher
Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications (INT), University of Stuttgart, Germany

GENERAL CHAIR-ELECT

Mikael Mazur
Nokia Bella Labs, USA

Topics Committee

Integrated Quantum Photonics and Signal Processing for Quantum Communications (IQPS)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Frédéric Grillot, Télécom Paris, France
Chigo Okonkwo, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Topic Organizers:
Gabriele Liga, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Galan Moody Moody, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Marek Osinski, University of New Mexico, USA
Paolo Pintus, University of Cagliari, Italy
Mo Soltani, Raytheon, USA

Light by Light Manipulation for Next Generation Photonics (LBL)

Topic Chair:
Massimiliano Guasoni, University of Southampton, UK

Topic Organizers:
Costantino De Angelis, University of Brescia, Italy
Nithyanandan Kanagaraj, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) of Hyderabad, Indian
Katarzyna Krupa, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Auro Perego, Aston University, UK
Stefan Wabnitz, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Multi-Channel Transceivers vs. High Symbol Rate for High-Speed Optical Transmission (MATCHA)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Qian Hu, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
N. P. (Pandelis) Diamantopoulos, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
Markus Grözing, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Nonlinear Laser Dynamics (NLD)

Topic Chair:
Neil Broderick, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Topic Organizers:
Sylvain Barbay, University´e Paris-Saclay, France
Julien Javaloyes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Bernd Krauskopf, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Kathy Ludge, TU Ilmenau, Germany

Optical Access and 6G networks: From Photonics to New Network Applications (OA6G)

Topic Chair:
Chris Vagionas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Topic Organizers:
Colm Browning, Mbryonics Ltd., Ireland
Shota Ishimura, KDDI Research Inc., Japan
Fabienne Saliou, Orange, France

Photonics-Electronics Convergence Devices and Packaging Technology for Future Datacenter and Computing Networks (PECDP)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Naoki Suzuki, Mitubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Mitsuru Takenaka, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Topic Organizers:
Yuqing Jiao, TU/e, Netherlands
Di Liang, University of Michigan, USA
Keita Mochizuki, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Anthony Rizzo, Dartmouth College, USA
Lars Zimmerman, TU-Berlin, Germany

Ultrastable Lasers Role in Insane Science (SCHNITZEL)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Daniel Blumenthal, University of California Santa Barabara, USA

Shaking Hand of Neuromorphic Computing & Optical Networks (SHINE)

Topic Chair:
Mahtab Aghaeipour, Fraunhofer-HHI, Germany

Topic Organizers:
Amir Aminifar Lund University, Sweden
Peter Bienstman, Ghent University – imec, Belgium
Francessco Da Ros, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Denmark
Alan Pak-Tao Lau, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China
Charis Mesaritakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Carlos Natalino, University of Technology,, Sweden
Stephen E. Ralph, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Colja Schubert, Fraunhofer-HHI, Germany
Ioannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece