Prof. Ady Arie
School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Tel Aviv University
Lecture Title:
Nonlinear Optical Holograms for Shaping of Light Beams
Prof. John Ballato
Sirrine Endowed Chair of Optical Fiber and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Clemson University, South Carolina
Lecture Title:
Materials Development for Advanced Optical Fibers
Dr. Sergey Babin
Novosibirsk State University; Institute of Automation and Electrometry SB RAS, Novosibirsk
Lecture Title:
Beam Cleaning Effects in Multimode LD-Pumped GRIN-Fiber Raman Lasers
Prof. Polina Bayvel
Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University College London
Lecture Title:
Transforming Optical Networks: Maximising Capacity and Speed
Dr. Christopher Doerr
Acacia Communications
Lecture Title:
Highly Integrated Silicon Photonic Subsystems for Real World Applications
Prof. Liang Dong
Clemson University
Lecture Title:
Challenges in Further Power Scaling of Single-Mode Fiber Lasers
Prof. Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of California, San Diego
Lecture Title:
Integrated Nanophotonics Technology and Applications
Dr. Ofer Firstenberg
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Lecture Title:
New Frontiers for Light Storage at Room Temperature
Prof. Valery Filippov
Tempere University of Technology and Ampliconyx, Finland
Lecture Title:
Amplifiers and Lasers with Active Tapered Double Clad Fibers
Mr. Eric Geoffrion
Thorlabs (formerly IR-Photonics), Canada
Lecture Title:
Bringing Mid-Infrared Fiber Components to the Market
Prof. Mircea Guina
Optoelectronics Research Centre
Physics Unit / Photonics
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
Tampere University
Lecture Title:
The Myths, the Reality, and the Unexplored Potential of SESAM Technology for Modelocking
Prof. Peter Hommelhoff
Physics Department,
Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, EU
Lecture Title:
Photonics-Based Laser Particle Acceleration – Toward the Accelerator on a Chip
Prof. Matthias Jaeger
Leibniz IPHT Institute
Jena, Germany
Lecture Title:
Large Mode Area Fiber Designs for Megawatt Peak Power Generation in REPUSIL-Based Tapered Amplifiers
Dr. Alina Karabchevsky
Electrooptics and Photonics Engineering Department
Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lecture Title:
All-Optical Monitoring of Cancer Treatment Efficiency with Overtone Absorption Spectroscopy On
Dr. Stefan Kessler
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies, and Image Exploitation
IOSB Department of Optronics Group Manager Sensor Simulation
Ettlingen, Germany
Lecture Title:
Performance Assessment of Electro-Optical Imagers: TRM4 Model and Imaging Simulation
Prof. Thomas Kirchartz
Inst. for Technology of Nanostructures
Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Lecture Title:
Experimental Realization and Theoretical Understanding of High Open-Circuit Voltages in Lead-Halide Perovskites
Prof. Jonathan Knight
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), Vice Chancellor’s Office
Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials. University of Bath
Lecture Title:
Silica-Based Hollow-Core Optical Fibres: A New Paradigm for the Mid-Infrared
Dr. Kobi Lasri
V-Gen Ltd., MKS Spectra-Physics
Lecture Title:
An overview of the Israeli Consortium on Advanced Laser Technologies for Industrial Applications (ALTIA)
Prof. Efrat Lifshitz
Dept. of Chemistry
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Sergey Mirov
University Professor of Physics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Physics
Birmingham, AL, USA
Lecture Title:
Fiber-Bulk Hybrid Mid-Infrared Lasers Based on Transition Metal Doped Ceramic Chalcogenides
Prof. Johan Nilsson
Optoelectronics Research Centre
University of Southampton
Southampton, England
Lecture Title:
Unconventional High-Power Fiber Lasers for Improved Wavelength Coverage
Prof. Dan Oron
Dept. of Complex Systems
Weizmann Inst. of Science
Prof. Scott Papp
NIST and University of Colorado
Lecture Title:
Kerr-Microresonator Solitons for Ultraprecise Measurements
Prof. Tenio Popmintchev
Physics Department, University of California San Diego, USA
Dr. Oded Raz
Department of Electrical Engineering, TU/Eindhoven
Lecture Title:
Exploring 2.5 and 3D Integration to Meet the Bandwidth Density Challenge
Prof. Gabby Sarusi
Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering Unit and Ilse Katz Center for Nano-Scale Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lecture Title:
SWIR to Visible Up-Conversion Devices Development
Dr. Tal Schwartz
Physical Chemistry Department and Tel Aviv Center for Light-Matter Interaction
Tel Aviv University
Lecture Title:
Revealing the Motion of Hybrid Light-Matter Excitations by Ultrafast Microscopy
Prof. Natan T. Shaked
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Tel Aviv University
Lecture Title:
Stain-Free Quantitative Phase Imaging of Sperm Cells for In Vitro Fertilization
Prof. Joseph A. Shaw
Optical Technology Center at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
Lecture Title:
Atmospheric Optics: Beauty and Science
Prof. Alphan Sennaroglu
Departments of Physics and Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Lecture Title:
Femtosecond Pulse Generation by Using Single-Layer Graphene and Voltage-Controlled Graphene Supercapacitor Structures
Prof. Klaus Suhling
Department of Physics King’s College London
Lecture Title:
Wide-Field Time-correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) Microscopy
Dr. Liron Stern
NIST
Prof. Andreas Tünnermann
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Center of Excellence in Photonics
Jena, Germany
Lecture Title:
Prospects in Power Scaling of Coherently Coupled Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers
Prof. Philip Walther
University of Vienna
Prof. Iris Visoly-Fisher
Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics,
Swiss Inst. for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research,
Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Lecture Title:
Stability Studies of Perovskite PV Materials and Devices Using Concentrated Sunlight
Prof. Sharon Weiss
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Vanderbilt University
Lecture Title:
On-Chip Silicon Photonic Biosensors
Prof. Frank Wise
Department of Applied Physics
Cornell University
Lecture Title:
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Optical Pulse Propagation in Multimode Fibers
Prof. Ben Yoo
Next Generation Networking Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis, California
Lecture Title:
Advanced 2D and 3D Photonic Integrated Circuits for Very Compact High-Resolution Imaging Systems