{"id":2369,"date":"2025-09-22T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/?page_id=2369"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:33:03","slug":"special-symposia-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/special-symposia-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Special Symposia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><section class=\"cleo-symposia\" aria-labelledby=\"symposia-title\">\n<style>\n.cleo-symposia{\n  --card-bg:#ffffff; --ink:#0e0f1a; --muted:#5a6175;\n  --cyan:#00c6ff; --violet:#5b4baf; 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1.1rem;display:grid;gap:.35rem;position:relative}\nsummary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.kicker{font-size:.75rem;letter-spacing:.12em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--cyan);font-weight:700}\n.title{font-weight:700;font-size:1.05rem}\n.organizers{font-size:.85rem;color:var(--muted)}\n.champion{font-size:.8rem;color:var(--violet);font-weight:600}\n.chev{position:absolute;right:.9rem;top:1.05rem}\n.body{padding:0 1.1rem 1rem;border-top:1px dashed #ececf3}\n.speaker{margin-bottom:1rem}\n.speaker strong{display:block}\n.meta{font-size:.85rem;color:var(--muted)}\n.talk{font-size:.92rem}\n.tba{font-style:italic;color:var(--muted)}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"band\">\n  <h2 id=\"symposia-title\">Special Symposia<\/h2>\n  <p>Click each card to view session details, champions, and invited presentations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"list\">\n\n<!-- 1 Integrated Photonics -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Integrated Photonics<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Control Light with Ultrasound in Integrated Acousto-Optic and Optomechanical Systems<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Mo Li (University of Washington, USA); Linbo Shao (Virginia Tech, USA)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Gabrielle Thomas<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Birgit Stiller<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Leibniz University Hannover, MPI Science of Light \u2022 Germany<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Strong coupling and neuromorphic structures in waveguide optoacoustics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Max Drimmer<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">ETH \u2022 Switzerland<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Brillouin cavity optomechanics for microwave to optical transduction<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Hong Tang<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Yale University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">sub-THz electromechanics and optomechanics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Matt Eichenfield<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Colorado Boulder \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Integrated Acoustoelectric Microwave Frequency Phonon Lasers, Amplifiers, and Switches for Advanced Acousto-Optics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Ben Eggleton<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Sydney \u2022 Australia<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Heterogeneous integration for Brillouin microwave photonics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Sunil Bhave<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Purdue University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">mm-sized PiezoMEMS transducers for meter-scale waveguide optomechanical interactions<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Ruochen Lu<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Texas at Austin \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Thin-Film Piezoelectric Acoustic Devices at mmWave Frequencies and Their Applications in Integrated Optics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Xiankai Sun<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Chinese University of Hong Kong \u2022 China<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Acousto-optic modulation on lithium niobate and lithium tantalate integrated platforms<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 2 Data Centers -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Data Centers & AI<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Optical Technologies for Data Centers: From Communications to Computing<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Myoung-Gyun Suh (NTT Research, USA); Kiyoul Yang (Harvard University, USA); Peter McMahon (Cornell University, USA)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Yasutomo Ota<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>John Bowers<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">UCSB \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Quantum Dot Laser Based Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Anna Tauke-Pedretti<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">DARPA \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">DARPA\u2019s view of the photonic integrated circuit ecosystem<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Ryohei Urata<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Google \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Optical interconnect, switching, and beyond: Key technologies for AI\/ML infrastructure<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Paul Prucnal<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Princeton University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Neuromorphic Photonics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Zhizhen Zhong<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">MIT \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Emerging Photonic Memory-to-Compute Interconnect for Generative AI Systems<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Ramana Murty<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Broadcom \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">VCSELs for NPO<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Vivek Raghunathan<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Xscape Photonics \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Scaling Up AI with WDM Optics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Anna Tatarczak<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Coherent \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Optical Technologies for the Next Generation Data Centers<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 3 Deep-UV -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Deep-UV<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Deep-UV Photonics: Materials, Devices, and Applications<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Nicolas Volet (Aarhus University, Denmark); Muhammad Ajmal Khan (RIKEN, Japan); Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Grillot (Universit\u00e9 Laval, Canada)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Stephan Reitzenstein<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Sonia M. Garc\u00eda Blanco<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Twente \u2022 The Netherlands<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Broadband and UV compatible Al2O3 integrated photonics platform<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Anna Kafar<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS \u2022 Poland<\/div><div class=\"talk\">InAlGaN laser diodes for next-generation deep-UV and quantum photonics<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Katrin Paschke<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">FBH \u2022 Germany<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Design of diode laser-based frequency-converted deep-UV light sources with selectable wavelengths<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Eric J. Stanton<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">EMode Photonix \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Integrated Nonlinear Photonics for Compact UV and Far-UVC Sources<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Joachim Ciers<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Chalmers University of Technology \u2022 Sweden<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Deep-UV surface-emitting lasers<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Debdeep Jena<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Cornell University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Deep-UV photonic devices enabled by distributed polarization doping<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Shashwat Rathkanthiwar<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Lit Thinking \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Far-UVC LEDs using pseudomorphic AlGaN<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Gabriel Mennerat<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">CEA & Cristal Laser \u2022 France<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Scalable Fabrication of High-Quality LBO Crystals for Deep-UV Frequency Conversion<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 4 High Energy Lasers -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">High-Energy Lasers<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Terawatt to Petawatt Lasers for X-ray Generation, Particle Acceleration and Fusion<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Michael Hemmer (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Olivier Chalus (Thales, France)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Katia Shtyrkova<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Patrick Rambo<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Sandia National Labs \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">The Z-Backlighter Laser Facility: Lasers, Applications, and Lessons Learned<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Yohann Ayoul<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">LULI-APOLLON \u2022 France<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Apollon Upgrade Towards a Multi-beam Platform<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>YanYing Zhao<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Peking University \u2022 China<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Advances in 2PW Laser Systems and Applications at Peking University<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Felicie Albert<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">LLNL NIF \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">The Jupiter Laser Facility: a kilojoule-class laser platform for high energy density and fusion energy sciences<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Manuel Hegelich<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">TAU Systems Inc \u2022 USA<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Marius Schollmeier<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">MARVEL Fusion GmbH \u2022 Germany<\/div><div class=\"talk\">First experimental evaluation of a 10-PW-driven Nano Accelerator at ELI-NP<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>John Petersen<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">IMEC \u2022 Belgium<\/div><div class=\"talk\">High-Harmonic Generation and an Emerging Inflection Point in Semiconductor Metrology<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Vincent Wanie<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">DESY \u2022 Germany<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Overdriven high-harmonic generation through gas confinement at sub-millimeter lengths<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 6 -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Heterogeneous Integration<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Heterogeneous Integration of UV to NIR Photonics for Emerging Applications<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Chao Shen (Fudan University, China); Haiding Sun (USTC, China); Yating Wan (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Garrett Cole<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speakers\">\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Yuji Zhao<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Rice University, USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">UV-visible Spectrum Integrated Photonics on Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Platforms<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Joyce Poon<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Toronto, Canada<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Heterogeneous VIS to NIR Laser Integration on Silicon Photonic Circuits for Neurotech and Compute Networks<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Jonathan Klamkin<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Aeluma, USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Large-Scale III-V on Silicon Heterogeneous Integration<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Changjian Guo<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, China<\/div><div class=\"talk\">High-Performance Visible Light Modulators Based on Thin-Film Lithium Tantalate<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Xiao Gong<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">National University of Singapore, Singapore<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Mateus Corato-Zanarella<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">TOPTICA Photonics Inc., USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Laser Systems For Quantum Optical Technologies And Beyond<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Vitaly Zubialevich<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Tyndall National Institute, Ireland<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Advanced Micro-LED Architectures for Emerging Photonic Applications<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 7 -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Materials Platform<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Barium Titanate: The Next-Generation Materials Platform for Optical Modulators<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Dan Wasserman (University of Texas, USA); Agham Posadas (La Luce Cristallina, USA); Alex Demkov (University of Texas, USA)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Sahin Ozdemir<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speakers\">\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Long-Qing Chen<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Penn State University, USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Thermodynamics and Phase-Field Model of Electro-Optic Effects in BaTiO\u2083<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Xiaoqing Pan<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of California, Irvine, USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Probing the domain structure and phonon dynamics of BaTiO3\u2083<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Paul Seidler<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">IBM Zurich<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Bidirectional Microwave-Optical Conversion with an Integrated Soft-Ferroelectric Barium Titanate Transducer<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Mark Thompson<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">PsiQuantum<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Felix Eltes<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Lumiphase AG<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Performance, Reliability, & Manufacturability of a 200mm BTO-Silicon Photonics Platform<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Gaurav Bahl<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Progress on Low-Loss Monolithic BaTiO\u2083 Integrated Photonics<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Peng Yao<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc.<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Ultra-Low V\u00b7L Optical Modulator<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Sebastian Schmitt<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Fraunhofer IOF<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Polarization Entangling Crystals: On-Chip Generation of Photonic Bell States in Barium Titanate<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 8 -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Nonlinear Waves<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Nonlinear Beam Propagation in Optics and Plasmas: In Memory of Akira Hasegawa<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Stefan Wabnitz (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Goery Genty (Tampere University, Finland); Mario Ferraro (University of Calabria, Italy)<\/span>\n<span class=\"champion\">Champion: Jifeng Liu<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speakers\">\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Caterina Riconda<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Sorbonne University, France<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Plasma Optics: New Trends and Possibilities<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Masataka Nakazawa<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Tohoku University, Japan<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Optical Fiber Communications and Computing<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>John Travers<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Heriot-Watt University, UK<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Extreme Guided-Wave Nonlinear Optics<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Beg\u00fcm Kabag\u00f6z<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">MIT, USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Soliton Dynamics and Ultrafast Frequency Generation in Step-Index Multimode Optical Fibers<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Arnaud Couairon<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Institut Fresnel \/ CPhT, France<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices in Kerr Media<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Fetah Benabid<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">CNRS, France<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Plasma Jets from Hollow-Core Optical Fibers<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Akihiro Maruta<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Osaka University, Japan<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Solitons in Optical Fiber Communication Systems<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Govind Agrawal<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Rochester University, USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Hasegawas Contributions to Solitons and Optical Communications\/Split-step Fourier Method: Its History and Usefulness\/ The Past and Future of Nonlinear Fiber Optics<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 9 -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n  <summary>\n    <span class=\"kicker\">Atomic Sensors<\/span>\n    <span class=\"title\">Quantum Devices with Hot Rydberg Atoms<\/span>\n    <span class=\"organizers\">Nikunjkumar Prajapati; Irina Novikova; Robert Wyllie<\/span>\n    <span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n  <\/summary>\n\n  <div class=\"body\">\n    <div class=\"speakers\">\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Aly Artusio-Glimpse<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Microfabricated vapor cells for Rydberg sensors: materials, surfaces, and RF considerations<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Michal Parniak<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Warsaw<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Rydberg upconversion radiometry in the mm-wave regime<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Tomas F. Gallagher<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Virginia<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Thermal Rydberg atoms at work<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Jeremy Glick<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Devcom Army Research Laboratory<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Warm atom Rydberg sensing with reduced Doppler effects<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Georg Raithel<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Michigan<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Applications of Rydberg-atom field sensors in fundamental science and in real life<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>David La Mantia<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Georgia Tech Research Institute<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Rydberg Electrometry of Very High Frequencies and Below<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Stephanie M. Bohaichuk<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Quantum Vally Ideas Lab<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Recent Advances in Radio Frequency Sensing with Rydberg Atom-based Electrometry<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 11 Silicon Color Centers -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n  <summary>\n    <span class=\"kicker\">Silicon Color Centers<\/span>\n    <span class=\"title\">Silicon Color Centers<\/span>\n    <span class=\"organizers\">Carlos Errando Herranz (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Stefano Paesani (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)<\/span>\n    <span class=\"champion\">Champion: Paulina Kuo<\/span>\n    <span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n  <\/summary>\n\n  <div class=\"body\">\n    <div class=\"speakers\">\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Moritz Brehm<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Johannes Kepler University \u2022 Austria<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Self-assembled single color centers in silicon based on epitaxy<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Geoffroy Hautier<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Rice University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">First principles understanding and prediction of quantum defects in silicon<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Chee Wei Wong<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">UCLA \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Laser Systems For Quantum Optical Technologies And Beyond<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Georgy Astakhov<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Title TBA<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Songtao Chen<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Rice University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Cavity-coupled telecom spin-photon interfaces in silicon<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>XueYue Zhang<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Columbia University \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Spin-photon interface of T centers<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Gary Wolfowicz<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Photonic Inc.<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Distributed Quantum Computing in Silicon<\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n<!-- 10 -->\n<details class=\"cleo-card\">\n<summary>\n<span class=\"kicker\">Novel Fibers<\/span>\n<span class=\"title\">Novel Optical Fibers: Technological Advances and Emerging Applications<\/span>\n<span class=\"organizers\">Nazanin Hoghooghi; Cristian Antonelli; Mikael Mazur<\/span>\n<span class=\"chev\">\u2304<\/span>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"speakers\">\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Lars S\u00f8gaard Rish\u00f8j<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Denmark Technical University \u2022 Denmark<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Nonlinear Interactions in Higher-Order Fiber Modes<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Timothy Bate<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Central Florida \u2022 USA<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Mode Field Adapters for High Power Delivery in Anti-resonant Hollow-core Fibers<\/div> <\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Austin Taranta<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Southampton \u2022 UK<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Recent Developments in Hollow Core Fibers for Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Davide Bacco<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">University of Florence \u2022 Italy<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Quantum communications in multicore fibers<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Kazuhide Nakajima<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">NTT \u2022 Japan<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Recent progress in multi-core fiber technology and its standard<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Sergio G. Leon-Saval<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">The University of Sydney \u2022 Australia<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Specialty Astrophotonic Fibers - a new approach for observational astronomy<\/div> <\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Wei Ding<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Jinan University \u2022 China<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Specialty Characterizations for Advanced Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers<\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"speaker\"><strong>Pierpaolo Boffi<\/strong><div class=\"meta\">Politecnico di Milano \u2022 Italy<\/div><div class=\"talk\">Multi-Core Fibers as Effective Sensors for Urban Environments<\/div><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-6 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}