Program

10:00-11:00

Arrival and Registration

Opening Remarks
Falk Eilenberger (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF)

Session 1: Advances in Foundry Services

Volker Sorger (University of Florida)
Photonic Chips and Foundry Partnerships for AI and Datacomm

Amir H. Ghadimi (Lightium AG)
Breaking the Bottleneck: High-Volume Manufacturing of TFLN PICs for Telecom & Datacom

Sergii Gudyriev (X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries GmbH)
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Tobias Kippenberg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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Session 2: LNOI for Quantum Applications

Laura Padberg (University of Paderborn)
Thin-film lithium niobate for integrated quantum optics    

Robert Chapman (ETH Zürich)
Integrated quantum photonics on thin film lithium niobate
    
Yen Hung Chen (National Central University Taoyuan)
Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonic Sources and Circuits for Quantum Technology

Reinhard Geiss (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF)
Towards Wafer-scale Fabrication of Erbium-doped TFLN Photonic Devices

Session 3: Contributed I

Kalaga Madhav (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)
Astrophotonics : PICs for astronomy from ground and space 
    
Jörn Epping (Epiphany Design)
Enabling Cross-Platform Design with xPDK 
    
Matthias Kaschel (Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart)
PICs for enabling Quantum Applications 

Session 4: Novel Materials

Alex Demkov (La Luce Cristallina)
Barium titanate: the next generation in integrated silicon photonics    

Tim Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin & Ferdinand-Braun-Institut)
Integrated Quantum Photonics with the AlGaN/AlN–Diamond platform    

David de Felipe (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut)
PIC Technologies for Communication, Sensing and Quantum    

Sebastian Schmitt (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF)
From Material Property to Quantum Functionality: Tailoring Nonlinear Platforms for Photonic Integration 

Session 5: Contributed II

Toby Bi (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Room temperature sputtered silicon nitride for inverse-design and nonlinear optics

Juan J. Arango (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Four-wave mixing in microring resonators 
    
Maham Ibrar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena & Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology)
Guiding in chaos: Observing branched flow of light through complex refractive index landscapes in planar waveguides
    
Hossein Esfandiar (Fraunhofer IOF Jena)
Material-Agnostic Thin Film Crystal Platforms: Crystal Ion Slicing and Bonding     

Session 6: Advanced Topics

Florenta Costache (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems)
Perspectives on Photonic Platforms: Liquid-Crystal Devices and Silicon Nitride-Based Sensing

Andreas Fognini (Single Quantum)
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Richard Zeltner (Menlo Systems GmbH)
Emerging applications of integrated photonics in high-precision metrology

Jens Müller (Ilmenau University of Technology)
Glass- and Ceramic-based interposer technologies for photonic electronic co-integration

Session 7: Contributed III

Daniel Sa Pereira (Bühler Leybold Optics)
Ion Beam Trimming (IBT) and Advanced Coating Technologies: A Unified Approach to Wafer Uniformity for Low-Loss and Scalable PIC Applications 

[More speakers to be announced)

Evening Event

Session 8: Applications of PICs

Eva Peters (QuiX Quantum B.V.)
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Anna Selzer (Akhetonics GmbH)
All-Optical Computing - Analog, Digital, Quantum    

Stefan Richter (Carl Zeiss AG)
PICs @ ZEISS – Applications & Solutions

Despoina Petousi (Adtran Networks SE)
Modulator Technologies for Next-Generation Coherent Pluggable Modules 

Session 9: Hybrid Integration and Testing

Arnan Mitchell (RMIT University)
Strip-loaded lithium niobate integrated photonic circuits    

Bart Kuyken (Ghent University)
Microtransfer printing as an enabling technology for integrated photonics    

Tobias Gnausch (Jenoptik AG)
Aligning Optical Wafer Probing with Electrical Test Methods – Needs and challenges in silicon photonics testing
    
Mengxin Ren (Nankai University)
Beyond Phase Matching: Nonlinear Harmonics in Lithium Niobate Nanostructures