Invited Speakers

C1. Solid State, Fiber, and Other Laser Sources

• Ultrafast Laser Systems for High Repetition Rate X-Ray Free Electron Laser Facilities Ingmar Hartl (DESY, Germany)
• Above 20-GHz repetition-rate, Kerr-lens mode-locked lasers Yohei Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Temporal Solitons in Coherently driven Active Fiber Resonators Francois Leo (University of Brussels, Belgium)
• 3.5 µm fiber lasers David J. Ottaway (University of Adelaide, Australia)

C2. Ultrafast and Nonlinear Phenomena

• Coherent electron dynamics induced by ultrashort UV pulses in complex molecules Francesca Calegari (CFEL, Germany)
• High-Order Nonlinear Dipole Response Characterized by Extreme-Ultraviolet Ellipsometry Ming-Chang Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
• Transient refraction spectroscopy with double attosecond pulses in inner-subshell electron Hiroki Mashiko (NTT-AT Advanced Technology Co., Japan)
• High harmonic generation for probing photochemical reactions Taro Sekikawa (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• Attosecond electron dynamics in molecules, clusters and liquids Hans Jakob Wörner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

C3. Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications

• Recent Progress in Terahertz Quantum Sensing Georg von Freymann (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Germany)
• Controlling the Non-Hermitian Graphene Dirac Plasmons and Its Application to Terahertz Laser Transistors Taiichi Otsuji (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Active Demethylation of Cancer Cells using Terahertz Radiation for Potential Cancer Treatment Joo-Hiuk Son (University of Seoul, Korea)
• Biological effects of MMW and THz radiation Vincent Wallace (University of Western Australia, Australia)

C4. High Power, High Energy Lasers

• Suppression of the temporal noise in SULF-10 PW laser Xu Yi (SIOM, China)
• Generation of the Highest Laser Intensity of 10²³ W/cm² by Focusing PW Laser Pulses Jin Woo Yoon (APRI-GIST, Korea)

C5. Laser Processing and Innovative Applications

• High depth of field and high speed variable focus for advanced laser processing applications Craig Arnold (Princeton University, USA)
• Laser‐Assisted Synthesis and Processing of 2D Quantum Materials Masoud Mahjouri‐Samani (Auburn University, USA)
• Formation mechanisms of bumps and their avoidance during laser milling of metals Andreas Michalowski (Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW), University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• Processing the bulk of silicon using IR ultrashort laser pulses - from waveguides to welding Stefan Nolte (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

C6. Optical and Photonic Metrology

• Diode-Laser Frequency-Combs Steven Cundiff (University of Michigan, USA)
• Wide-field mid-infrared imaging based on adiabatic frequency upconversion Jianan Fang / Kun Huang (East China Normal University, China)
• Comparing distant optical clocks to realize the redefinition of the second Tetsuya Ido (NICT, Japan)
• Precision time‐domain spectroscopy of infrared waves Ioachim Pupeza (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany)

C7. Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics and Quantum Information

• Silicon photonics for quantum information and communication Nobuyuki Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Engineering entanglement for quantum computing on silicon photonics chips Jianwei Wang (Peking University, China)
• Efficient Spin-Photon Interfaces for Quantum Networks Jorg Wrachtrup (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• Applications of solid state optics in information technologies Sen Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

C8. Micro and Nanophotonics, and Light Localization Effects

• Biphoton entanglement across topologies Andrea Blanco-Redondo (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)
• Integrated Silicon photodetectors in Silicon Nitride-on-SOI platform Shankar Kumar Selvaraja (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India)
• Non-Hermitian nanophotonics with photonic crystal cavities Kenta Takata (NTT Corporation, Japan)

C9. Optical Communication Systems and Networks

• Generalized Stokes‐space analysis of modal dispersion in fibers for space‐division multiplexing with mode‐dependent loss Cristian Antonelli (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
• Ultra‐High Symbol Rate Generation via External DAC Multiplexing Vivian Xi Chen (Nokia Bell labs, USA)
• Towards >100 Tb/s Ultra‐Wideband Transmission Systems Cosimo Caloni (III‐V Lab, France) / Jeremie Renaudier (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

C10. Optical Fiber and Waveguide Technologies

• Ultrafast Parallel Random Number Generation with a Chip-Scale Semiconductor Laser Hui Cao (Yale University, USA)
• Time reversed optical waves by arbitrary vector spatiotemporal field generation Joel Carpenter (University of Queensland, Australia)
• Optical Waveguides in Crystals Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Writing: Recent Advances and Perspectives Feng Chen (Shandong University, China)

C11. Semiconductor and Integrated Optical Devices

• Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit for Co-Packaged Optical-IO Yuliya Akulova (Intel Corporation, USA)
• III-V-on-Silicon-Nitride Mode-Locked Lasers Stijn Cuyvers (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium)
• 256-Gbit/s PAM-4 directly modulated membrane lasers on SiC substrate Suguru Yamaoka (NTT Corporation, Japan)
• Integrated lithium niobate photonics: when performance meets scalability Mian Zhang (HyperLight, USA)

C12. Silicon Photonics

• Strategies for non-volatile alteration of optical components based on mid index waveguides Frederic Gardes (Southampton University, UK)

C13. Optical Signal Processing

• Latest Progress in Optical Eigenvalue Communications – Dispersion Managed Soliton Case – Akihiro Maruta (Osaka University, Japan)
• Integrated Microwave Photonics for Radar Applications Manuel Reza / Giovanni Serafino (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• Silicon Photonics for Training Deep Neural Networks Bhavin J. Shastri (Queen's University, Canada)

C14. Advanced 2D and Nanocarbon Materials for Photonics and Energy

• Probing the momentum-resolved dynamics of excitons in 2D semiconductors Keshav Dani (OIST, Japan)
• Controlling Emission Wavelength and Chirality of Quantum Emitters in 2D Heterostructures Han Htoon (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
• Ultrastrong Light-Matter and Matter-Matter Coupling Junichiro Kono (Rice University, USA)
• Natural hyperbolic plasmon polaritons in 2D materials Hugen Yan (Fudan University, China)

C15. Biophotonics and Applications

• Minimally-Invasive Lensless Computational Microendoscopy Mark A. Foster (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Line-illumination Raman microscopy for imaging biological samples Katsumasa Fujita (Osaka University, Japan)
• Natural Photoreceptive-Protein Toolbox of Microbial Rhodopsins Keiichi Inoue (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Transcutaneous monitoring of hemoglobin derivatives using camera-based diffuse reflectance spectroscopy Izumi Nishidate (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)

C16. Plasmonics and Metamaterials

• Mutual Control of Heat-Light by Si Metasurface Junichi Takahara (Osaka University, Japan)
• 3D Laser Nanoprinting: Recent Progress Martin Wegener (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

C17. Optical Sensors and Systems

• Multimodal Image Analysis of Blood Flow and Blood Components of Rodent Skin Flap for Understanding Necrosis Hideaki Haneishi (Chiba University, Japan)
• Informed learning of spectral super-resolution for mHealth applications Young L. Kim (Purdue University, USA)

C18. Microwave Photonics

• THz and photonics convergence for future access links Tetsuya Kawanishi (Waseda University, Japan)
• Actuating stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride photonic circuits David Marpaung (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• Multi-dimensional Multiplexed Fiber-Wireless Transmission in the THz Band Xianbin Yu (Zhejiang University, China)

C19. XFEL and Xray Lasers

• Measurement and applications of high-intensity XFEL interactions with matter Ichiro Inoue (RIKEN, Japan)
• Opportunities and challenges of a hard x-ray regenerative amplifier free-electron laser Gabriel Marcus / Rachel Margraf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
• Theoretical studies of X-ray induced damage in optical elements of beamlines at free-electron-laser facilities Beata Ziaja-Motyka (DESY, Germany)

Promoted Invited Speakers

The author shall be proud of this paper, which was promoted from a general presentation to an invited one based on the recommendation by the program committees.

• C1. Solid State, Fiber, and Other Laser Sources Flexible Wavelength Shifting of Ultrafast Lasers at High Power Levels Henrik Tuennermann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany)
• C2. Ultrafast and Nonlinear Phenomena Broadband and Efficient Out‐Coupling of Intra‐Cavity High Harmonics by a Coated Grazing‐Incidence Plate Julian Fischer (University of Neuchatel, Time and Frequency Laboratory, Switzerland)
• C3. Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications Manipulating Polarization‐division Multiplexed Terahertz Signals with Four‐wire Waveguides Junliang Dong (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Canada)
• C4. High Power, High Energy Lasers Wavefront Evaluation of a 250‐J Laser “HELIA” toward 10 Hz Operation Takashi Sekine (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan)
• C5. Laser Processing and Innovative Applications High‐speed ablation of crystalline silicon by femtosecond laser BiBurst mode with GHz burst in MHz burst Kotaro Obata (Riken, Japan)
• C6. Optical and Photonic Metrology Highly stable laser repeater system with frequency instability below 10^-21 Tomoya Akatsuka (NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan)
• C7. Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics and Quantum Information A Programmable Qudit‐based Quantum Processor Chi Yulin (Peking University, China)
• C8. Micro and Nanophotonics, and Light Localization Effects Topological modes observed in Si photonics SSH integrated circuit Toshihiko Baba (Yokohama National University, Japan)
• C9. Optical Communication Systems and Networks Cumulative Dynamic Inter‐Core Skew Measurements in Spooled Uncoupled Core Multicore Fibers Ruben Luis (NICT, Japan)
• C10. Optical Fiber and Waveguide Technologies Mode‐locking state switchable Er‐doped fiber laser based on a hybrid scheme of graphene oxide and nonlinear polarization rotation Wei Cai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• C11. Semiconductor and Integrated Optical Devices Control of Vector Beam Polarization Mode by Spatially Modulated Photonic‐crystal Lasers Kyoko Kitamura (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
• C12. Silicon Photonics Programmable Waveguides on 2D Coupled Silicon Ring Resonator Array Ryotaro Konoike (AIST, Japan)
• C13. Optical Signal Processing Demonstration of A Clements‐type 16 × 16 Photonic Analog Matrix Processor Based on Silicon Photonics Shota Kita (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan)
• C14. Advanced 2D and Nanocarbon Materials for Photonics and Energy Comparison of Light Emission of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes under Laser‐ and Joule‐Heating Conditions Taishi Nishihara (Kyoto University, Japan)
• C15. Biophotonics and Applications High‐speed Live‐cell Vibrational Imaging with a Mid‐infrared Photothermal Quantitative Phase Microscope Genki Ishigane (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• C16. Plasmonics and Metamaterials High Dimensional Optical Meta‐devices: Classical to Quantum Din Ping Tsai (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• C17. Optical Sensors and Systems Background‐Free Vibrational Spectroscopy based on Destructive Interference around 2.3µm Wenqing Song (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• C18. Microwave Photonics Injection‐Locked Optoelectronic Oscillator for Phase Noise Purification in 100‐GHz Bands Atsushi Kanno (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
• C19. XFEL and Xray Lasers XFEL single‐nanometer focusing system at SACLA Jumpei Yamada (RIKEN SPring‐8 Center, Japan)