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Plenary Speakers

Andrew Weiner|Purdue University, America
 
“Ultrabroadband Radio-Frequency Photonics: From Waveform Generation & Filtering to Classical & Quantum Frequency Combs”
 
Andrew Weiner is the Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Inventers and was selected as a Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. Weiner presently serves as Editor-in-chief of Optics Express, an all-electronic, open access journal publishing more than 3000 papers a year emphasizing innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics, and previously served a three year term as Chair of the National Academy’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Meeting. After Prof. Weiner earned his Sc.D. in electrical engineering in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined Bellcore, at that time a premier telecommunications industry research organization, first as Member of Technical Staff and later as Manager of Ultrafast Optics and Optical Signal Processing Research. He joined Purdue as Professor in 1992, and has since graduated close to 40 Ph.D. students. Prof. Weiner has also spent sabbaticals at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrashort Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany and at JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado.
Prof. Weiner’s research focuses on ultrafast optics, with a focus on processing of extremely high speed lightwave signals and ultrabroadband radio-frequency signals. He is especially well known for his pioneering work on programmable generation of arbitrary ultrashort pulse waveforms, which has found application both in fiber optic networks and in ultrafast optical science laboratories around the world.
Siyuan Yu|Sun Yat-sen University, China
 
“Optoelectronic devices and photonic integration circuits aimed at microwave photonics”
 
Prof. Siyuan Yu (Fellow of OPTICA) received his Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 1984, Master degree from Wuhan Institute of Post and Telecommunications in 1987, and PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 1997. He had been Professor of Photonic Information Systems at the University of Bristol, UK, before joining the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Prof. Yu has carried out research in the physics and technologies of optoelectrnic devices and photonic integrated circuits as well as their applications in optical systems and networks for over 35 years, focusing on innovative photonic component technologies aimed at addressing key issues at link and network levels. He contributed to areas such as integrated high-speed optical switches, novel semiconductor lasers, all-optical logic circuits and integrated quantum photonic circuits on various materials including III-V semiconductors, silicon nitride, and lithium niobate. He is also a pioneer on the application of the orbital angular momentum of photons for ultra-high-capacity information transmission. He has published more than 230 papers including two Science cover features, co-edited a book, and has been granted several international patents.
David J. Moss|Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
 
“Ultra-high Bandwidth Applications of Optical Microcombs”
 
Distinguished Prof. Moss is Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University and Deputy Director of the newly established Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence COMBS (Centre for Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science). He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of the IEEE, Fellow of Optica, and Fellow of the SPIE. He has a 35 year history of R&D in photonics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, quantum optics, opto-electronics and optical communications. He was in industry for 7 years with Hitachi and JDS Uniphase in Canada. Dist. Prof. Moss has published over 900 research papers highlighted by 3 Nature papers, a Science, 8 Nature Photonics, Nature Reviews Chemistry and a Nature Physics.

 

Tutorial Talk

Ghaya Baili|Thales Research and Technology, France
 
“Progress on Advanced Signal Processing with High Speed Photomixers”
 
Ghaya Baili was born in Tunisia in 1980. She graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Optique (France) in 2004 with a Master of Optics and Photonics from the University of Paris XI. She was awarded in 2008 a PhD degree in laser Physics from the University of Paris XI. She joined Thales Research & Technology, France in 2005. Her main research interests include laser physics, optoelectronic generation and processing of microwave signals, non-linear optics in fibers, opto-electronic devices and sub-systems, atomic clocks for time and frequency references as well as photonic integrated circuits. Dr BAILI has about 80 publications in refereed journals, about multiple communications in international conferences. She is member of the Société Française d’Optique.
Chester Shu|Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
 
“Programmable schemes on temporal processing of wide-bandwidth optical signals”
 
Chester Shu received the BSc degree in Physics from the University of Hong Kong in 1985 and the PhD degree in Applied Physics from Columbia University in the City of New York in 1991. His research interest is on developing enabling technologies for advanced optical communications, microwave photonics, and optical sensing. In particular, he focuses on the generation, processing, and characterization of optical signals for applications in diverse fields. He has made original contributions in multi-dimensional processing of optical signals using both linear and nonlinear techniques. He also worked on the generation of programmable optical frequency combs with ultrawide spacings using both fiber-optic and silicon photonic platforms, supporting advanced coherent and direct-detection communication systems with unmatched performances in signal quality and power consumption. Currently, he is a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Shu has published widely and delivered many research talks in the field of optical signal processing. He is the Subject Editor-in-Chief (Optical Communication) of Electronics Letters. He was a senior editor of IEEE Photonic Journal and a topical editor of Optics Letters. Prof. Shu is fellow of Optica and HKIE, and a senior member of IEEE.

 

Invited Talk

Xiaoxiao Xue|Tsinghua University, China
 
“Comb based Microwave Photonic Signal Generation and Processing”
 
Xiaoxiao Xue received both his B.Eng. (2007) and Ph.D. degrees (2012) from Tsinghua University. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor in 2016, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2019. His research interests include temporal cavity soliton physics, integrated optical frequency combs, microwave photonic signal generation and processing. Some of his leading research findings have been published in high-impact journals including Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Applications, and Laser & Photonics Reviews.
Michael Geiselmann|LIGENTEC, Switzerland
 
“Low Loss Photonic Integrated Circuits: from Prototype to Volume”
 
Michael Geiselmann (President & CCO) studied physics and engineering at University Stuttgart and Ecole Centrale Paris. After his PhD at ICFO in Barcelona in 2014 he joined the laboratory of Prof. Kippenberg at EPFL in Lausanne, where he advanced frequency comb generation on integrated silicon nitride chips towards applications and was involved in several international research projects. In 2016, he co-founded LIGENTEC and brought the company to the international stage of photonic integration.
Toshimasa Umezawa|National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
 
“High Speed OE Conversion Technology for Optical Wireless Communications in beyond 5G”
 
Toshimasa Umezawa (Member, IEEE) received B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics from Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, Japan, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. From 1987 to 2011, he worked for the Yokogawa Electric Corporation; he was with the Centra l Research Laboratory and with the Photonics Business Department. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, and he received a Ph.D. degree in electronics from Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1995, wher e he was engaged in research on superconductor devices, photonics devices, and their applications. In 2011, he joined the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). His current research interests are E O devices and photonic integrated circuits and millimeter wave photonics.
Yitang Dai|Beijing University Of Posts and Telecommunications, China
 
“Microwave Photonic Discrete-frequency Processing”
 
Yitang Dai received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was engaged in postdoctoral research with the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. From 2008 to 2010, he was engaged in postdoctoral research with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. He is currently a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China. His research interests include microwave photonics signal generation and processing, analog optical computing, and integrated photonics.
Ziqian Zhang|University of Sydney, Australia
 
“Millimetre Resolution Photonic Radar for UAV and Vital Sign Detection”
 
Ziqian Zhang received the bachelor's degree in underwater acoustic engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2015, the master's degree (MPhil) in telecommunication engineering in 2018 and the Ph.D. in degree in physics from the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia in 2023. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Eggleton Research Group at the University of Sydney. He received the Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship from the Australian Government and the Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Microwave Photonic from the University of Sydney. He acquired one international patent and five invited talks, two of which were at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). He was shortlisted as one of the top three for the Maiman Outstanding Student Paper Competition in the 2023 CLEO. His research focuses on microwave photonics, non-linear optics, photonic radar, LiDAR, and photonic integration.
Cheng Wang|City University of Hong Kong, China
 
“Integrated Lithium Niobate Microwave and Millimeter-wave Photonic Circuits”
 
Dr. Cheng Wang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He received his B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Tsinghua University in 2012, and his S.M. (2015) and Ph.D. (2017) degrees, both in Electrical Engineering from Harvard University, supervised by Prof. Marko Lon?ar. After conducting research as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, he joined City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in 2018. Prof. Wang's research focuses on the design and nanofabrication technology of integrated photonic devices and circuits. His current research effort focuses on realizing integrated lithium niobate photonic circuits for applications in optical communications, millimeter-wave/terahertz technologies, nonlinear optics, and quantum photonics. Since joining CityU, Prof. Wang has received a number of awards in research, including the NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (HK & Macau) (2019), the Croucher Innovation Award (2020), The President's Award, CityU (2020), and 35 Innovators Under 35 (China), MIT Technology Review (2021).
Jerome Bourderionnet|Thales Research and Technology, France
 
“Photonic Integrated Circuits for RF Waveform Generation”
 
Jérôme Bourderionnet (Dr.) holds a PhD in laser physics. Since 2001, he has been working in the Physics Dept. at Thales Research and Technology, in charge of the development of innovative concepts for radar and active optronic systems and also for fiber based sensors, including non-mechanical beam steering, slow light signal processing… In the past decade, he is particularly involved in the integrated photonics activity, for a various range of applications, including LiDAR, coherent beam combining for high power sources, free space communications, and microwave photonics for signal processing.