Invited speakers


  • Yasuhiko Arakawa University of Tokyo (Japan)
  • Advancements of quantum dot light sources
  • Yuhong Bai Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics CAS (China)
  • Publishing With Light: Science &Applications
  • Konrad Banaszek Quantum Optical Technologies sp. z o.o. (Poland)
  • Towards Optical Key Distribution with Low-Noise Germanium Quantum-Dot Photodetectors
  • Monika Czarnecka QNA Technology (Poland)
  • Blue light emitting quantum dots for display applications
  • Michał Baranowski Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland)
  • Optoelectronic Impact of Exciton Fine Structure and Exciton-Phonon Interactions in 2D Perovskites
  • Artur Bednarkiewicz Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research PAS (Poland)
  • New face of photon avalanche phenomenon and materials
  • Mikhail Belkin Technical University of Munich (Germany)
  • Mid-infrared Photonic Integration and Nonlinear Optics on InP
  • Dieter Bimberg Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics CAS & TU (Germany)
  • Energy Efficient Multi Terabit Photonics: Quantum Dots at Work
  • Connie Chang-Hasnain Berxel Photonics & Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
  • Meta-VCSELS and Optics for 3D sensing and communication
  • Weng W. Chow Sandia National Laboratories (USA)
  • Mode Locking in Semiconductor Lasers: A Test Case for Multimode Strong-Signal Theory
  • Emiliano Descrovi Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
  • Light Manipulation in Multilayered Photonic Structures
  • Gadi Eisenstein Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
  • Coherent interactions and quantum properties of short pulses propagating in a quantum dot gain medium
  • Alfred Forchel Sensalight Technologies (Germany)
  • NIR and MIR trace component sensing – from semiconductor laser research to business
  • Jean-Michel Gérard CEA The Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (France)
  • Isolated color centers in Si as single photon sources for quantum photonics: recent advances and open challenges
  • David Gershoni Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
  • Continuous Generation of Indistinguishable-All-Photonic Cluster States
  • Marcin Gębski Lodz University of Technology (Poland)
  • Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Monolithic High-Contrast Grating Mirrors
  • Agnieszka Gocalińska TRUMPF Photonics (Germany)
  • Compact VCSEL Chips for Diverse Applications (795 nm – 850 nm)
  • James Harris Stanford University (USA)
  • Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Devices-From Scientific Curiosity to mainstream AI Driven Data Centers
  • Tobias Heindel Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
  • Advances in Quantum Light Generation for Quantum Networking
  • Sven Höfling University of Würzburg (Germany)
  • Telecom wavelength semiconductor quantum dot single photon sources for quantum photonics
  • Yidong Huang Tsinghua University (China)
  • Photonic Manipulation of Metasurface
  • Daniel Jaque Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain)
  • Plasmon-enhanced luminescence in motion: the case of upconverting nanoparticles
  • Sebastian Klembt University of Würzburg (Germany)
  • Topological edge and corner modes: Advanced topological physics in polariton lattices
  • Paweł Kluczyński Airoptic (Poland)
  • Tunable laser analyzers for sulfur recovery applications
  • Tamara Knyazyan National Polytechnic University (Armenia)
  • Hypothetic Uniform and Multilayer Structures as the Models of Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) Materials: Wavelength-scale Electromagnetic Analysis by the Method of Single Expression
  • Fumio Koyama Institute of Science Tokyo (Japan)
  • Advanced VCSEL Technologies for Communications and Sensing
  • Jesper Levinsen Monash University (Australia)
  • Novel droplet phase of exciton-polariton mixtures in atomically thin semiconductors
  • Gian Luca Lippi University Cote Azur (France)
  • Blurred Boundaries: On the Nature of Coherence from Semiconductor Lasers to Photon Condensates
  • Jin Liu Sun Yat-Sen University (China)
  • Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
  • Huiyun Liu University College London (United Kingdom)
  • Compound III-V quantum-dot lasers monolithically grown on Si platform
  • Łukasz Marciniak Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research PAS (Poland)
  • Opportunities and challenges in phase transition based luminescence thermometry
  • Shinji Matsuo NTT Corporation (Japan)
  • Heterogeneous integrated III-V membrane photonic devices on Si
  • Andries Meijerink Utrecht University (Netherlands)
  • Photonic Effects in Luminescence Spectroscopy
  • Andrzej Miszczuk Roltec sp. z o.o. (Poland)
  • Roltec: from lab to factory. The science and challenges of CIGS PV technology
  • Maciej Molas University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • Excitonic complexes in thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides
  • Michał Nikodem Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland)
  • Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers: A Novel Optical Platform for Laser-Based Gas Sensing
  • Chunte (Sam) Peng Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
  • Engineering Photostable Probes for Ultralong-term, Single-Molecule Imaging in Live Cells
  • Piotr Perlin Institute of High Pressure Physics Unipress (Poland)
  • Nitride Semiconductor-Based Laser Diodes – Navigating the Maze of Traps Set by Nature
  • Maciej Pieczarka Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland)
  • Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in a VCSEL – new physics in a well-established photonic device
  • Barbara Piętka University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • Polariton Lasing from Perovskite Waveguides for Photonic Neuromorphic Networks
  • Ryszard Piramidowicz Vigo Photonics & Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
  • Mid-IR Photonic Integrated Circuits – challenges and perspectives
  • Mindaugas Radziunas Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (Germany)
  • Modeling and analysis of dynamics in semiconductor lasers
  • Johann Peter Reithmaier University of Kassel (Germany)
  • Progress in Quantum Dot Laser Materials for Telecom Applications
  • Stephan Reitzenstein Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
  • Single-quantum-dot devices for photonic quantum technologies: Design, deterministic nanofabrication, and application perspectives
  • Andrei Schliwa Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
  • Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Symmetry, Coulomb Interactions, and Modeling Approaches
  • Christian Schneider University of Oldenburg (Germany)
  • Magneto-optics of Van-der-Waals Exciton-Polaritons
  • Chao Shen Fudan University (China)
  • Progress of High-speed III-Nitride Laser Diodes and Visible Light Integrated Photonics
  • Bogusz Stępak Fluence Technology (Poland)
  • Femtosecond laser processing of wide bandgap materials
  • Xiao Wei Sun Southern University of Science and Technology (China)
  • Future Display Trend
  • Marcin Syperek Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland)
  • Deterministically fabricated semiconductor quantum dot-based single-photon source for telecom applications
  • Mike Jun Wang Suzhou Everbright Photonics (China)
  • High-Brightness High Power Semiconductor Lasers: Edge Emitting and Surface Emitting
  • Andrzej Wysmołek University of Warsaw (Poland)
  • Growth and applications of epitaxial boron nitride
  • Rui Q. Yang University of Oklahoma (USA)
  • Advancing Interband Cascade Devices: Progress and Challenges
  • Val Zwiller KTH Stockholm (Sweden)
  • Detecting light at the single photon level: quantum devices and applications