Jena LIGHT Conference 2005 Titelbild

Program

Jena LIGHT will take place from 1-3 December 2025 and features a program of talks, poster presentations and lab visits as well as social and cultural events.
Jena LIGHT Conference 2005 Titelbild
Grafik: modif. Tung Nguyen/Pixabay; Falk Eilenberger

Preliminary schedule

Monday, 01.12.2025  

10:00-11:00

Arrival and Registration

11:00-11:00

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

11:15-13:15

Session 1: Advances in Foundry Services

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

Amir H. Ghadmi (Lightium AG)
tba

Sergii Gudyriev (X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries GmbH)
tba

Tobias Kippenberg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
tba

13:15-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00

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)
tba

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30

Session 3: Contributed I

(Speakers tba)

17:30-20:00 Posters and Pizza
Tuesday, 02.12.2025  
9:00-11:00

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)
tba

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30

Session 5: Contributed II

(Speakers tba)

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30

Session 6: Advanced Topics

Florenta Costache (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems)
tba

Andreas Fognini (Single Quantum)
tba

Richard Zeltner (Menlo Systems GmbH)
Glass- and Ceramic-based interposer technologies for photonic electronic co-integration

Jens Müller (Ilmenau University of Technology)
Emerging applications of integrated photonics in high-precision metrology     

 15:30-16:00  Coffee Break
 16:00-17:30

Session 7: Contributed III

(Speakers tba)

19:00-22:00

Evening Event

Wednesday, 03.12.2025  
9:00-11:00

Session 8: Applications of PICs

Eva Peters (QuiX Quantum B.V.)
tba
    
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 

 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 
 11:15-13:15

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

 13:15-14:00  Lunch Break
 14:00-15:00  Lab Tours

 

The preliminary program can be downloaded herepdf, 54 kb. Updates coming soon.