Program

iNOW 2025 book of abstracts (14 MB)

List of Posters (updated)

Rules and Regulations of the Best Poster Competition

Monday

21.07.2025

16:00

Registration

18:00

Welcome reception

Tuesday

22.07.2025

08:00

Breakfast/registration

08:30

Opening Session
Opening remarks

Session Tue1

09:00

Energy Efficient Multi Terabit Photonics: Quantum Dots at Work
Dieter Bimberg
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics CAS, China & Technical University of Berlin, Germany

09:45

Advancements of quantum dot light sources
Yasuhiko Arakawa
University of Tokyo, Japan

10:30

Coffee Break

Session Tue2

10:50

Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Symmetry, Coulomb Interactions, and Modeling Approaches
Andrei Schliwa
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

11:35

Coherent interactions and quantum properties of short pulses propagating in a quantum dot gain medium
Gadi Eisenstein
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

12:20

Lunch

Session Tue3

13:45

Photonic Manipulation of Metasurfaces
Yidong Huang
Tsinghua University, China

14:30

Meta-VCSELS and Optics for 3D sensing and communication
Connie Chang-Hasnain
Berxel Photonics & Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

15:15

Coffee Break

15:35

Poster Session A – short oral presentations
(lecture hall)

17:00

Poster Session A + light snacks
(expected to end at 18:15)

Wednesday

23.07.2025

08:30

Breakfast/registration

Session Wed1

09:00

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Devices-From Scientific Curiosity to mainstream AI Driven Data Centers
James Harris
Stanford University, USA

09:45

Mode Locking in Semiconductor Lasers: A Test Case for Multimode Strong-Signal Theory
Weng W. Chow
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

10:30

Coffee Break

Session Wed2

10:50

Progress in Quantum Dot Laser Materials for Telecom Applications
Johann Peter Reithmaier
University of Kassel, Germany

11:35

Continuous Generation of Indistinguishable-All-Photonic Cluster States
David Gershoni
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

12:20

Magneto-optics of Van-der-Waals Exciton-Polaritons
Christian Schneider
University of Oldenburg, Germany

13:05

Lunch

Industrial session A

14:30

High-Brightness High Power Semiconductor Lasers: Edge Emitting and Surface Emitting
Mike Jun Wang
Suzhou Everbright Photonics, China
Compact VCSEL Chips for Diverse Applications (795 nm – 850 nm)
Agnieszka Gocalińska
TRUMPF Photonics, Germany
Associated event: Simulation software training session by Herbert S. Mączko, nextnano GmbH, Germany

18:45

Guided Boat Trip

Thursday

24.07.2025

08:30

Breakfast/registration

Session Thu1

09:00

Isolated color centers in Si as single photon sources for quantum photonics: recent advances and open challenges
Jean-Michel Gérard
CEA, The Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble, France

09:45

Future Display Trends
Xiao Wei Sun
Southern University of Science and Technology, China

10:30

Coffee Break

Session Thu2

10:50

Advancing Interband Cascade Devices: Progress and Challenges
Rui Q. Yang
University of Oklahoma, USA

11:35

Engineering Photostable Probes for Ultralong-term, Single-Molecule Imaging in Live Cells
Chunte (Sam) Peng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12:20

Lunch

Session Thu3

13:45

Novel droplet phase of exciton-polariton mixtures in atomically thin semiconductors
Jesper Levinsen
Monash University, Australia

14:30

Polariton Lasing from Perovskite Waveguides for Photonic Neuromorphic Networks
Barbara Piętka
University of Warsaw, Poland

15:20

Visits in local labs and tech companies
(expected to end at 18:30)

19:30

Conference Dinner I

Friday

25.07.2025

08:30

Breakfast/registration

Session Fri1

09:00

Photonic Effects in Luminescence Spectroscopy
Andries Meijerink
Utrecht University, Netherlands

09:45

Plasmon-enhanced luminescence in motion: the case of upconverting nanoparticles
Daniel Jaque
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

10:30

Coffee Break

Session Fri2

10:50

New face of photon avalanche phenomenon and materials
Artur Bednarkiewicz
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research PAS, Poland

11:35

Opportunities and challenges in phase transition based luminescence thermometry
Łukasz Marciniak
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research PAS, Poland

12:20

Lunch

Session Fri3

13:45

Single-quantum-dot devices for photonic quantum technologies: Design, deterministic nanofabrication, and application perspectives
Stephan Reitzenstein
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

14:30

Advances in Quantum Light Generation for Quantum Networking
Tobias Heindel
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

15:15

Coffee Break

Session Fri4

15:35

NIR and MIR trace component sensing – from semiconductor laser research to business
Alfred Forchel
Sensalight Technologies, Germany

16:20

Mid-infrared Photonic Integration and Nonlinear Optics on InP
Mikhail Belkin
Technical University of Munich, Germany

17:05

Light supper
(expected to end at 18:00)

19:00

Concert in the National Forum of Music

Saturday

26.07.2025

09:00

Breakfast

Session Sat1

09:30

Light Manipulation in Multilayered Photonic Structures
Emiliano Descrovi
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

10:15

Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers: A Novel Optical Platform for Laser-Based Gas Sensing
Michał Nikodem
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

11:15

Coffee Break

Session Sat2

11:30

Hypothetic Uniform and Multilayer Structures as the Models of Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) Materials: Wavelength-scale Electromagnetic Analysis by the Method of Single Expression
Tamara Knyazyan
National Polytechnic University, Armenia

12:15

Modeling and analysis of dynamics in semiconductor lasers
Mindaugas Radziunas
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Wrocław guided walking tour
(expected to end at 18:00)

Sunday

27.07.2025

07:15

Breakfast at the student dormitory

08:15

Lower Silesia region excursion
(departure from accommodation place; expected to end at 20:00)

Monday

28.07.2025

08:30

Breakfast/registration

Session Mon1

09:00

Nitride Semiconductor-Based Laser Diodes – Navigating the Maze of Traps Set by Nature
Piotr Perlin
Institute of High Pressure Physics Unipress, Poland

09:45

Progress of High-speed III-Nitride Laser Diodes and Visible Light Integrated Photonics
Chao Shen
Fudan University, China

10:30

Coffee Break

Session Mon2

10:50

Telecom wavelength semiconductor quantum dot single photon sources for quantum photonics
Sven Höfling
University of Würzburg, Germany

11:35

Deterministically fabricated semiconductor quantum dot-based single-photon source for telecom applications
Marcin Syperek
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

12:20

Lunch

Industrial session B

13:45

Publishing with Light: Science & Applications
Yuhong Bai
Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics CAS, China
Femtosecond laser processing of wide bandgap materials
Rafał Smolin
Fluence Technology, Poland
Heterogeneous integrated III-V membrane photonic devices on Si
Shinji Matsuo
NTT Corporation, Japan
Blue light emitting quantum dots for display applications
Monika Czarnecka
QNA Technology, Poland
Roltec: from lab to factory. The science and challenges of CIGS PV technology
Andrzej Miszczuk
Roltec, Poland
(expected to end at 16:15)

Tuesday

29.07.2025

08:30

Breakfast

Session Tue4

09:00

Advanced VCSEL Technologies for Communications and Sensing
Fumio Koyama
Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

09:45

Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Monolithic High-Contrast Grating Mirrors
Marcin Gębski
Łódź University of Technology, Poland

10:30

Coffee Break

Session Tue5

10:50

Blurred Boundaries: On the Nature of Coherence from Semiconductor Lasers to Photon Condensates
Gian Luca Lippi
University Cote Azur, France

11:35

Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in a VCSEL – new physics in a well-established photonic device
Maciej Pieczarka
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

12:20

Lunch

Session Tue6

13:45

Excitonic complexes in thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides
Maciej Molas
University of Warsaw, Poland

14:30

Topological edge and corner modes: Advanced topological physics in polariton lattices
Sebastian Klembt
University of Würzburg, Germany

15:15

Coffee Break

15:35

Poster Session B – short oral presentations
(lecture hall)

17:00

Poster Session B
(expected to end at 18:15)

19:00

Conference Dinner II

Wednesday

30.07.2025

09:30

Breakfast

Session Wed4

10:00

Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
Jin Liu
Sun Yat-Sen University, China

10:45

Compound III-V quantum-dot lasers monolithically grown on Si platform
Huiyun Liu
University College London, United Kingdom

11:30

Detecting light at the single photon level: quantum devices and applications
Val Zwiller
KTH Stockholm, Sweden

12:15

Lunch

Session Wed5

13:45

Growth and applications of epitaxial boron nitride
Andrzej Wysmołek
University of Warsaw, Poland

14:30

Optoelectronic Impact of Exciton Fine Structure and Exciton-Phonon Interactions in 2D Perovskites
Michał Baranowski
Wrocław University of Science and Technology

15:15

Coffee Break

Industrial Session C

15:35

Tunable laser analyzers for sulfur recovery applications
Paweł Kluczyński
Airoptic Poland
Mid-IR Photonic Integrated Circuits – challenges and perspectives
Ryszard Piramidowicz
Vigo Photonics & Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Towards Optical Key Distribution with Low-Noise Germanium Quantum-Dot Photodetectors
Konrad Banaszek
Quantum Optical Technologies sp. z o.o., Poland

17:15

Poster Awards Ceremony with dinner

Thursday

31.07.2025

09:00

breakfast

09:30

Visits in local labs and tech companies
(expected to end at 13:00)

13:00

Lunch

14:00

End of iNOW 2025 Workshop