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Toshihiko Baba received a Ph.D. degree from Yokohama National University in 1990. He became a full professor at this university in 2005. He has studied Si Photonics, photonic crystals, nanolasers, and slow light. In these years, he is particularly developing Si photonics FMCW LiDAR based on slow light beam scanners. He is a fellow of IEEE, Optica, and JSAP.

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Dr. Shinji Matsuo is a Senior Distinguished Researcher at NTT Corporation. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 1986 and 1988, and his Ph.D. degree in electronics and applied physics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008. In 1988, he joined NTT Opto-electronics Laboratories, Atsugi, where he was engaged in research on photonic functional devices using MQW-pin modulators and VCSELs. In 1997, he researched optical networks using WDM technologies at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Yokosuka. Since 2000, he has been researching InP/Si-based photonic integrated circuits at NTT Device Technology Laboratories, Atsugi. Dr. Matsuo is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE.

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As a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, James P. Hamilton founded two companies, is the Director of the UW System NCCRD Nano Research Center and is in the Chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in the USA. His research on precision contamination control in aerospace, photonic and astronomical optics has brought him to the summits of most of the large telescope sites in the world, including Hawaii, the Canary Islands, and China. His recent efforts have been focused on an $875K NASA research program for space telescopes has also led to new planetary protection research involving deep space missions. Following a B.A. and graduate work at the University of Maine-Orono in Natural Products, Inorganic Chemistry, and Surface Science, he completed a Ph.D. at UW-Madison in physical & analytical chemistry specializing in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. His research specializes in nanocomposite materials instrumentation development, nanoparticle thermodynamics, and. Lecturing on research and collaborating all over the world, he also raised $4.3 million in investment funds for his companies, Xolve, Inc. and Photonic Cleaning Technologies, the manufacturer of First Contact Polymers, which has sales in 80 countries. He is a senior member of the American Physical Society and SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, as well as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He also is a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, the Coblenz Society, and Sigma Pi Sigma (Honorary Physics Society). He also serves on the AIAA Space Settlement Technical Committee and as a coordinator and session chair for conferences like SPIE Optics and Photonics. He was also recently selected as the 2022-2024 Distinguished Lecturer for Sigma Xi, the international research honor society.

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Ray T. Chen at UT Austin has reported its research findings in more than 930 publications, including over 100 invited papers and 74 patents. He has chaired or been a program committee member for more than 120 domestic and international conferences organized by IEEE, SPIE (The International Society of Optical Engineering), OSA, and PSC. He has served as an editor, co-editor, or co-author for over twenty books. Chen has also served as a consultant for various federal agencies and private companies and delivered numerous invited talks to professional societies. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He was the recipient of the 1987 UC Regent’s Dissertation Fellowship and the 1999 UT Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, for his contributions to research, teaching, and services. He received the honorary citizenship award in 2003 from the Aust in city council for his contribution to community service. He was also the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Teaching Award and the 2010 IEEE HKN Loudest Professor Award. 2013 NASA Certified Technical Achievement Award for contribution on moon surveillance conformable phased array antenna. Chen served as the CTO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Radiant Research, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, where he raised 18 million dollars A-Round funding to commercialize polymer-based photonic devices involving over twenty patents, which were acquired by Finisar in 2002, a publicly-traded company in the Silicon Valley (NASDAQ: FNSR). He also served as the founder and Chairman of the Board of Omega Optics Inc. since its initiation in 2001. Omega Optics has received over five million dollars in research funding. His research work has been awarded over 135 research grants and contracts from such sponsors as Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, MDA, NSA, NSF, DOE, EPA, NIST, NIH, NASA, the State of Texas, and private industry. The research topics are focused on four main subjects: (1) Nano-photonic passive and active devices for bio- and EM-wave sensing and interconnect applications, (2) Thin-film guided-wave optical interconnection and packaging for 2D and 3D laser beam routing and steering, (3) True-time delay (TTD) wideband phased array antenna (PAA), and (4). 3D printed microelectronics and photonics. Experiences garnered through these programs are pivotal elements for his research and further commercialization. Chen has supervised and graduated 51 Ph.D. students from his research group at UT Austin. Many of them are currently professors in the major research universities in the USA and abroad.

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Fumio Koyama received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physical electronics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively.　He is a professor, at the Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He served as the Dean, of the Institute of Innovative Research between 2018-2020. His research interest includes VCSEL photonics, photonic integrated devices, 3D optical sensing, and LiDAR. He has authored or co-authored more than 1,000 journal and conference papers, including more than 100 invited talks. For more than 35 years, Fumio Koyama has been one of the leading researchers whose work contributed to VCSEL photonics and single-mode lasers for broadband optical communications. He received various awards, including the IEEE Student Paper Award in 1985, the IEE Electronics Letters Premium in 1985 and in 1988, IEICE Paper Awards in 1990, 2002, 2004, and 2007, Marubun Scientific Award in 1998, the Ichimura Award in 2004, the IEICE Electronics Society Award in 2006, the MEXT Prize for Science and Technology in 2007, IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award in 2008, the 2012 Izumo Hayashi Award from the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Award in 2015 and the Ichimura Prize in Industry for Excellent Achievement from the New Technology Development Foundation in 2016, the 32nd Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award from the Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association in 2017, Okawa Award in 2018, Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award from OSA in 2019and IEICE Achievement Award in 2019. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, IEICE, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He was a deputy editor for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (2011-2016) and a topical editor for OSA Optics Letters (2009-2013) and the Guest Editor of IEEE JSTQE (2002 and 2007). He has served as the IEEE David Sarnoff Award Committee Member (2009-2012) and the IEEE Fink and Baker Awards Committee Member (2013-2014). He also has served as various committee members, including General Chair (2010), Program Chair (2008) and Sub-committee Chair (2006) of IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conferences, Sub-committee Co-Chair of ACP 2009-2010, Steering Committee Chair of CLEO Pacific-Rim (2012-), CLEO/QELS TPC member (2006-2008), LEOS Annual Meeting TPC member (1998-2003), General Co-chair (2007) and Program Co-chair (2005) OECC. He was the chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Japan Chapter and a Board Member of the IEEE Tokyo Section. He also served as President of the Electronics Society, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) (2011-2012), and a member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors (2012-2014).

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Prof D. N. Payne is a research pioneer in photonics, having been in the field for over 45 years. Payne’s contributions are acknowledged as seminal in many areas of optical telecommunications, one of the greatest scientific successes of the last three decades. His work spans many other areas of photonics, from optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials. He has made several of the key technical achievements in almost every area of optical fibre technologies and his work has had a direct impact on telecommunications, as well as nearly all fields of optical R&D. He is the most highly honoured UK scientist in photonics. Payne’s pioneering work in fibre fabrication in the ’70s resulted in almost all of the special fibres in use today. He led the team that in 1985 first announced the silica fibre laser and the Erbium-Doped Optical Amplifier (EDFA), the device that fuelled an explosive growth on the internet through its ability to transmit and amplify vast amounts of data. The EDFA is widely regarded as being one of the foremost and most significant developments in modern telecommunications. The fibre laser is now also undergoing rapid growth for application in manufacturing and defence. Payne led the team that to international acclaim broke the kilowatt barrier for fibre laser output. Unusually, David combines world-leading science with commercial activities and has been the driving force behind several spinout companies, creating wealth and employment in the surrounding area. He has been awarded the top American, European and Japanese prizes in photonics, a very rare achievement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Russian and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the IET, the Optical Society of America and SPIE. He is also a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Engineering.

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Dr. Shibin Jiang is the Founder and President of AdValue Photonics Inc. and an Adjunct Research Professor at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona. He received a Ph.D. degree from Universite de Rennes 1, France. He was the Co-founder and CTO of NP Photonics Inc. Dr. Jiang holds 83 issued patents, edited 27 proceeding books, authored more than 150 publications, and has an H index of 43. He served as chair of 35 international technical conferences including OPTO at Photonics West for SPIE and Advanced Solid-State Laser Congress for Optica. He served on many award committees for OSA, SPIE, and The America Ceramic Society (ACerS), and was an associate editor for 4 scientific journals. He was the chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of ACerS in 2014. Currently is a member of the Board of Directors of ACerS. His research activities generated more than a dozen of the world's first commercial products, which are widely used. Dr. Jiang was awarded the Gottardi Prize in 2005 from International Commission on Glass, 2012 and 2014 R&D 100 Awards, and 2018 R&D 100 Award Finalist. He received the 2018 Corporate Technical Achievement Award and was named The Global Ambassador in 2019 from the ACerS. Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of SPIE, ACerS, and Optica. He is elected as an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics in 2020.

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Dr. Leisher holds concurrent titles of Fellow at Luminar Technologies Inc. in Orlando, FL and Vice President of Research for Freedom Photonics (a Luminar company) in Santa Barbara, CA. His current roles are focused on the technical and business development of the world’s highest brightness laser diodes. Prior to joining Luminar/Freedom, Dr. Leisher was Chief Engineer for Diode Lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA) where he served as the principal subject matter expert for high power diode laser technology. From 2011-to 2017, Dr. Leisher served as Associate Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Indiana) and as the Manager of Advanced Technology at night Corporation (Vancouver, Washington) 2007-2011. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois) in 2002, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Dr. Leisher’s research interests include the design, fabrication, characterization, and analysis of high-power semiconductor lasers and other photonic devices. He has served as Principal Investigator / Principal Business Official on over $21.7M in research programs to date. He has authored over 260 technical patents, journal articles, and conference presentations. Dr. Leisher serves on the technical committee of many conferences. He is the co-chair of the SPIE Components and Packaging for Laser Systems Conference, the program track chair for the SPIE LASE Symposium Nonlinear Optics and Beam Guiding conferences, and the program chair of the International Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC). Dr. Leisher is a senior member of both SPIE and IEEE.

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Yidong Huang was born in Beijing, China. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in optoelectronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. From 1991 to 1993, she was with Arai Laboratories, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, on leave from the Tsinghua University. In 1994, she joined the Photonic and Wireless Devices Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, where she was engaged in the research on semiconductor laser diodes for optical-fiber communication and became an assistant manager in 1998. She received the “Merit Award” and “Contribution Award” from NEC Corporation in 1997 and 2003, respectively. She joined the Department of Electronics Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2003, as a professor, and was appointed by the Changjiang Distinguished Professor and the National Talents Engineering in 2005 and 2007, respectively. She was Vice-Chairman (2007-2012) and Chairman (2013-2019) of the Department of Electronics Engineering. Now she is Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University. Professor Huang is presently engaged in research on nano-structure optoelectronics. She authored/co-authored more than 350 journal and conference papers and holds more than 120 patents. She is the founder of H-chip Tech Co., LTD, and Seetrum Co., LTD. Yidong Huang is a Fellow of OSA, deputy member of the Director Board of Chinese Optical Society, Vice President of Chinese Electronic Education Association, Associate Editor of ACS Photonics.

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Prof. Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France, until 1979. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering at, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. He is the recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal, and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and applications, and six books. The number of times his research works have been cited exceeds 67,000 and his Hirsch factor is 113 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy-efficient data communication.

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Dr. Chris Kelbaugh, After 8 years serving active duty in the US Air Force, I tested into an engineering position with a robotic and Laser Company called Fanuc America. I worked at Fanuc for 9 years becoming a senior laser support engineer helping and training customers and field engineers in all of North & South America. As I spent more and more time in the office and missing the travel and not wanting to move to Fanuc HQ in Chicago, IL I made the life-changing decision to start Advanced Laser Services. At ALS we provide service, technical support & training, and part sales for industrial CO2 lasers worldwide. We have trained & installed lasers all over North America and as far as Dubai and Viet Nam. We look forward to building customer relationships and ensuring equipment up time for many years to come as the fabrication sector changes and evolves to include fiber laser and robot and fiber combination cutting. Advanced Laser Services, LLC is dedicated to providing the best most cost-effective service and support in the industry. In addition to our high-quality standards, ALS is recognized throughout the industry as having the most knowledgeable sales and support teams along with the most experienced laser engineers.

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Jack Jewell is a key architect of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), the basis for a multi-billion-dollar industry in short-reach fiber communication links, optical mice, and 3D sensors. In 1989, he spearheaded a Bell Labs / Bellcorecollaboration that demonstrated over 1 million VCSELs on a ~5x8mm chip. Prior to that, VCSELs were only the subject of research projects, but Jewell introduced crucial innovative advances that sparked worldwide industrialVCSEL development, and which are present in all commercial VCSELs (thin/practical active regions, >99%-reflective semiconductor mirrors, graded interfaces enabling current flow through mirrors, and the enabled all-semiconductor design). Later, Jewell also patented forms of later “oxide-VCSELs,” which are still used in commercial VCSELs (e.g. the etch pattern to access the oxidation layer, combining an ion implant with the oxidation structure). VCSELs are found in “Fugaku and Summit (world’s fastest supercomputers)”, CERN, essentially every “laser mouse,” and in the iPhone X and successors. VCSELs are also used in the world’s smallest atomic clocks, lidar sensors, and medical diagnostics.VCSEL chip production multi-billions/year. Jack Jewell received his Ph.D. in 1984 (U. Arizona, Optical Sciences Center) developing optical logic devices under Hyatt Gibbs. He furthered that work at AT&T Bell Laboratories, which led to the 1989 VCSEL breakthrough. Jewell left Bell Labs to co-found Photonics Research Inc. in 1991, the first company committed to commercializing VCSELs (later Vixel Corp., and spinoff Cielo). In 1995 he founded Picolight Inc.Both companies were leaders in VCSEL innovation (e.g. high-efficiency electrical injection, oxide VCSEL embodiments, micro optics) and standards development (e.g. Ethernet which opened the first large markets for VCSEL-based fiber-optic links). Vixel went public in 1999, and Picolight was acquired by JDSU in 2007. Picolight was a the 2007 Colorado Photonics Company of the Year. Jewell has been an independent consultant since 2008. From 2000 through 2014, Jewell was an influential contributor to IEEE Ethernet standards ranging from 10- to 400-Gigabit/sec. His year-2000 presentations, with Picolight demonstrations, were pivotal for 10-Gigabit Ethernet’s inclusion of a VCSEL/multi-mode-fiber embodiment. In 2013, he outlined a path for VCSEL-based Ethernet links up to 6.4 Terabits/sec. Jewell has 78 US patents and over 150 publications. Jewell is a fellow of the IEEE and Optica, a senior member of SPIE, and a member of the APS. Besides consulting and entrepreneurial activities, Jewell participates in NASA-sponsored travel (including South America, Africa, and Australia) on occultation expeditions to learn more about flyby-targeted objects for the New Horizons and Lucy missions. He also enjoys ultrarunning and photography.

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Professor Zabih Ghassemlooy, Fellow, SOA; Fellow, IET; Senior Member, IEEE; Member, ACM), CEng, Google Scholar Citation: 18393, Google Scholar h-index: 58 and i10-index: 367. BSc (Hons.), Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK, (1981), MSc (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2004-2014 Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Eng. & Env., Northumbria Univ., UK, and currently is the Head of Optical Communications Research Group (one of the largest groups in optical wireless communications in Europe). A Research Fellow (2016-) and a Distinguished Professor (2015-) at the Chinese Academy of Science. Visiting Professor at the University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (2013-17), Huaqiao University, China (2017-18), Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic (2019), Technical University of Graz, Austria (2018). He was the Vice-Chair of EU Cost-Action IC1101 (2011-16) and is Vice-Chair of Cost Action CA19111, 2020-24. Over 970 publications (410 journals (IEEE, IET, IOP, SOA, Elsevier, etc.), 8 books), over 110 keynote/invited talks, supervised 11Research Fellows, and 71PhDs. Research interests include optical wireless communications (OWC), free space optics, visible light communications, optical camera communications, and hybrid RF-OWC, with many funded research projects from Research Council (UK), UK Space Agency, European Union, and industries in collaboration with many international research centers. He is leading the European Collaborative Research Network since 2020. Chief Editor of British J. of Applied Science and Technology and International J. of Optics and Applications, Associate Editor of several journals (IEEE, IET, etc.), and Co-guest Editor of many special issues on OWC. He is Vice-Cahir of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-); Chair of IEEE Student-Branch at Northumbria University (2019-). 2004-06 was IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, Vice-Chair (2006-2008), Chair (2008-11), and Chair of IET Northumbria Network (2011-15). He is the founder and chair of the IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communications Systems, Networks and DSP, West Asian Symposium on Optical and mmW Wireless Communications, and South American Colloquium on Visible Light Communications; co-founder of several international events including Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications in IEEE ICC since 2015, a colloquium on OWC in CSNDSP since 2004, and international Workshop on OWC since 2015. He is a member of the international technical committee of a very large number of international conferences. He is the Vice-Cahir of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-).

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Prof. Siyuan Yu, a Fellow of OSA, received his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 1984, a master’s degree from Wuhan Institute of Post and Telecommunications in 1987 (both in China), and a Ph.D. degree 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 photonic integration as well as its application in optical systems and networks for over 35 years, focusing on innovative photonic components technologies aimed at addressing key issues at systems and networking levels. He contributed to areas such as integrated high-speed optical switches, micro-cavity lasers, all-optical logic circuits, and integrated quantum photonics on various materials including III-V semiconductors, silicon nitride, and lithium niobate. In recent years he has worked on developing novel integrated photonic components, optical fibres and systems technologies based on the orbital angular momentum of photons. He has published more than 230 papers, co-edited a book, and has been granted several international patents.

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Vladimir Falko is a condensed matter theorist working on various aspects of structure, optics, and electronic transport of two-dimensional materials, publishing >300 papers with an h-index of 58 and >25,000 citations. He contributed to shaping the European research community in graphene and other two-dimensional materials by initiating, in 2006, and, then, running the Graphene Week Conference series and by setting, in 2008, and then chairing the Eurocores Programme EuroGraphene of the European Science Foundation. Since 2009, Fal'ko was one of the initiators and, then, leaders of the EU Graphene Flagship project (where he was Division Head and leader of WP 'Enablish Science'). Since 2014, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the 2D Materials Journal of the Institute of Physics Publishing House. Falko managed and lead major research grants (ERC Synergy Grant, EC, and ERANET consortia, as well as EPSRC collaborative projects) and major capital investments ranging from EPSRC Strategic Packages to the interdisciplinary National Graphene Institute at Manchester. He also contributed towards EU-wide Ph.D. and postdoctoral training, by running, from 2001-to 2015, a series of 7 Windsor Summer Schools on quantum Condensed Matter Physics and, since 2014, being Co-Director of joint EPSRC-Manchester-Lancaster Centre for Doctoral Training Graphene-NOWNANO.

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Dr. Salah-ddine Krit is currently an Associate Professor at the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University Agadir Morocco, Dr. Krit is currently The Director of Engineering Science and Energies Laboratory and The Chief of the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Management. Dr. Krit received their Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morroco in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From 2002-to 2008, he worked as an engineer Team leader in audio and power management Integrated Circuits (ICs) Research, Design, simulation, and layout of analog and digital blocks dedicated for mobile phone and satellite communication systems using Cadence, Eldo, Orcad, VHDL-AMS technology. Dr. Krit authored/co-authored over 130 Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, and Book Chapters published by IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor&Francis, IGI Global, and Inderscience. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Security, Smart-Homes, Smart-Cities, Internet of Things, Business Intelligent, Big Data, Digital Money, Microelectronics, and renewable Energies.

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Dr. Bayram Gunduz received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Firat University, Elazig, Turkey, 2001–2005, master degree from Solid State Physics, Firat University, 2005–2007, and a Ph.D. degree from Solid State Physics, Firat University, 2007–2011. He was the first in the Physics Department for 8 consecutive terms (4 years) and completed the Physics Department as the FIRST of the DEPARTMENT. He was a research assistant in Solid State Physics, Mus Alparslan University, Turkey, 2009–2011 and was Assist. Prof. Dr. in Department of Science Education, Mus Alparslan University, 2011–2017. He was an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in the same department and university, 2017-2019. He is currently an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in Malatya Turgut Özal University, since November 2019. By October 2022, he will also have received the Full Professor title. His main achievements include organic semiconductors and optoelectronic materials: (i) electrical, optical, photonic, and optoelectronic properties; (ii) fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices and an investigation of their photophysical properties and applications such as Schottky diode, P–N heterojunction diode, metal-insulator-semiconductor junctions, solar cells, thin-film transistor, photodiode. (B) He has many articles (more than 75) published in SCI, and SCI-Exp journals, which have high impact factors and have about 1000 citations to his studies.

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Santiago Royo, Ph.D., is currently a Full Professor in Optical Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and Director of the CD6 (Centre for the Development of Sensors, Instrumentation, and Systems), a Research Centre devoted to research and innovation in the field of Optical Engineering. He is also a member of the Board of Stakeholders of Photonics21, and co-secretary of the Spanish Platform for Photonics Fotónica21. He is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications, and 7 book chapters, and has directed 11PhD Thesis. He has been a leading researcher in 63 research projects on Optical Metrology, publicly and privately funded, with a total income of 8,3M€. It is especially remarkable that he has filed a total of 17 patents, with 11 of them licensed to six different companies. He is co-founder of three photonics-based spin-off companies: SnellOptics (2002,Terrassa, Spain), devoted to marketing quality plastic optical components; ObsTech SpA (2012, Santiago, Chile) commercializing systems for internet-controlled telescopes, and Beamagine SL (Castellbisbal 2016), commercializing lidar and advanced imaging solutions. His current research interests are lidar imaging, imaging in scattering media, and Monte Carlo models of light propagation for polarized light n scattering media.

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Anna Backerra has graduated in theoretical physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands and worked for three years at Philips Research Laboratories. She continued independently, making a search for complementary physics. To develop a way of complementary thinking she studied composition at the Conservatory in Enschede and in Saint Petersburg. After that she constructed a complementary mathematical language and applied this to physics, obtaining twin physics. The surprisingly diverse results are published in Physical Essays (3 papers), Applied Physics Research (3 papers), Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (1), Int. J. of Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine (1), and combined in a book (Twin physics, the complementary model of phenomena, Lambert Academic Publishing, www. more books. shop). The most recent article (not yet published) is titled ‘Four types of electrons and their associated finite magnetic fields.

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Akihiko Kasukawa received B.S, M.S, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering all from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1984, he joined Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. At Furukawa, he has been engaged in the R&D of long wavelength semiconductor lasers. From 1990 to 1991, he spent one year at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) Inc., Red Bank, NJ as a visiting researcher. After coming back to Furukawa, he conducted the R&D of long-wavelength strained-layer quantum well lasers. He conducted the development of high-power lasers both 980nm and 1480nm for EDFA. High power 1.48m pumping laser modules for EDFA received the Technology Award from FIBEROPTIC PRODUCTS NEWS in 1994 and the Ookouchi award in 1998. He received the Achievement Award from The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) for the development of high-power lasers and their modules for EDFA applications in 2001 and the Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award from the Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association in 2002. He is now a Senior Fellow at Furukawa. He is one of the Board of Governors of IEEE Photonics Society (2019-2022). He serves IEICE Electronics Society as President (2018-2019). He is a Fellow of IEEE, IEICE, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He serves on lots of international conferences related to optoelectronics, including OECC in 2016 as General Co-Chairs, 27th International Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC) as TPC Chair, and 28th ISLC as General Chair and lases Program Track Chair for a Laser source of SPIE Photonics West.

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Dr. Oliver Faehnle received his Ph.D. from the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands, in “Optics Fabrication and Testing” in 1998 and has been working and teaching in this field ever since, running projects within both environments: academia and industry. Currently, he is heading the “Photonics Systems Manufacturing” group at the OST- University of Applied Sciences, Buchs, Switzerland. He is a senior member of OSA, senior member SPIE, and chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of the European Optical Society. Besides that, he has been training and teaching Japanese sword fencing, kendo, for more than 29 years increasing his awareness.

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Costantino De Angelis (http://costantino-de-angelis.unibs.it) was born in Padova, Italy, in 1964. He received the Laurea Degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of Padova, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Since 1998 he is with the University of Brescia where he is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields in 2004. He is OSA Fellow. He has been responsible for several University research contracts in the last 20 years within Europe, the United States of America, and Italy. His technical interests are in optical antennas and nanophotonics; he is the author of about 150 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.

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Dr. Zhenguo Lu is a Principal Research Officer, Team Lead of Photonic Devices, and Project Leader of the National Challenge Program “High-Throughput and Secure Networks (HTSN)” at Advanced Electronics and Photonics (AEP) Research Centre of National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of both University of Ottawa and Concordia University in Canada since 2006. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1992, he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Research Fellowship to work at the Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1993 to 1995. Then he worked at Terahertz Research Centre of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, the USA for more than two years. Dr. Lu came to NRC as a Research Officer in 1997. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Lu was the Director of Product Research & Development of BTI Systems Inc., Ottawa, Canada. He re-joined NRC as a Senior Research Officer in 2002. Dr. Lu is an expert in the field of photonics devices and their applications in optical coherent networks, data center networks, 5G & beyond wireless networks, and satellite communications. He has published over 250 refereed journal and conference proceeding papers, and 8 US patents. He has given over 50 invited talks at international conferences, universities, and industrial companies. Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Optica.

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Jian-An Huang is a tenure-track assistant professor and a group leader of the Jianan lab of Nanophotonic Biosensors at the University of Oulu in Finland. He received a Ph.D. degree in reproducible surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy biosensors from the City University of Hong Kong. As a postdoc, Jian-An worked on scanning near-field optical microscopy and low-dimensional semiconductor photodetectors at the University of Hong Kong, and plasmonic nanotechnologies at the Italian Institute of Technology before joining the University of Oulu. His group combines plasmonic nanostructures (nanotube, nanopore, nanopillar) with molecular manipulation methods for single-cell, single-particle, and single-molecule biosensing toward digital healthcare and personalized medicine. He is a member of the Nano Letters early career board and the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics.

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Dr. Aghavni Kutuzyan is the Sci. Director of Ultrafast Optics and Photonics Laboratory in Yerevan State University, Armenia. In 1996, she received the B.S degree in Physics and the M.S degree in Laser Physics in 1998. She received Ph.D. degree, in Chair of Quantum Electronics in Department of Physics in 2005 and then received Diploma of Associate Professor, in YSU. She has been the supervisor of 15 B.S degree and 7 M.S degree students from YSU. She is the author of one book as well as more than 50 articles. Her research interests include ultrafast optics, laser physics, nonlinear fiber optics and optical solitons.

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Rongping Wang was born in December of 1969 and got his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000. After then he worked in Israel, Japan. In 2005, he moved to Australia as a Fellow at the Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University. He has been a full professor at Ningbo University in China since 2017. His research area includes chalcogenide glasses and related waveguide/fiber devices. He has supervised 8 Ph.D. students, managed a number of research projects funded, published more than 250 papers in refereed scientific journals, and edited one book on chalcogenide glasses.

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Zhigang Zang received his Ph.D. degree from Kyushu University in 2011. He joined the School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University as a professor in 2014. His research interests mainly focus on the synthesis of II-VI, III-V semiconductor materials and their applications in solar cells and light-emitting diodes. He has published more than 100 journal papers and has been selected as National Talent Program since 2019.

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Suleyman Ozcelik is a Professor of Physics at Gazi University in Turkey, where he is also the founding Director of Gazi Photonics Application &Research Center (http://fotonik.gazi.edu.tr/?language=en_US) and the founding Head of Department of Photonics. He obtained his MSc (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) degrees from Gazi University. As the Director of Gazi Photonics Research Center, with a team of around 65 national and international researchers, Prof Ozcelik leads prestigious national and international research and R&D collaborations with academic and industry partners. His research expertise includes the development of photonic crystals, epitaxial growth, bulk single-crystal growth, growth of 2D nanomaterials, modeling, designing, and fabrication of optoelectronic devices. Prof Ozcelik’s team has established Turkey’s first epitaxial growth and bulk Germanium and Sapphire crystal growth systems, as well as pioneering the production of space-qualified solar cells. He has led more than 40 projects in the fields of advanced materials, semiconductor, and optics-photonics technologies funded by national and international agencies. He has published more than 200 articles in SCIjournals, and more than 550 publications overall. Prof Ozcelik is a member of several high education boards and civil society organizations, supporting and promoting R&D, researcher training, research and industry collaborations, and academia-public engagement. He regularly gives keynote/invited talks in national and international conferences. In 2019, he has received an Honor Award from the Turkish Physical Society for his distinguished contributions to the discipline of physics.

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Professor Oliker received his Ph.D. in mathematics from St Petersburg University, Russia (formerly Leningrad State University, Soviet Union). He has published over a hundred papers in the fields of pure and applied mathematics, co-authored with R. Winston and L. Jiang the book Nonimaging Optics, CRC Press, 2021, co-edited two books published by the American Mathematical Society, and co-translated a book on nonlinear partial differential equations published by Wiley. Since 1984 he has been developing theoretical and computational methods for the design of freeform optics. He is a Fulbright US Scholar, a Senior Member of the SPIE, and is a recipient of numerous research grants and awards.

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Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interests include intelligent photonics, optical communications and networking, optical interconnect, detection, imaging and display technology, integrated photonics, free-space and fiber optics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >9,000 citations, four edited books, >50 issued or pending patents, >100 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >10 plenary and >30 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, and an Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for eight journal special issues, Chair or Committee Member for >60 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

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Dr. Habil. Vaidotas KAŽUKAUSKAS is a Professor at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He was awarded Dr. Habil. degree in 1999. The topics of his research work are carrier transport, generation, recombination and trapping phenomena in advanced materials and structures for (opto-)electronic and photovoltaic applications. Prof. V. Kažukauskas is/was involved as a team leader into the six large-scale international projects and other numerous projects. He was awarded the National Science Award of Lithuanian Republic, the National Science Award for the Distinguished Scientist, the Science Award of the Rector of Vilnius University and others. V. Kažukauskas has more than 380 publications, had delivered more than 60 invited lectures at the international conferences, and authored three textbooks.

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Professor Sukhdev Roy received the theB.Sc. (Hons.) Physics degree from Delhi Univ. in 1986, M.Sc. Physics from DEI, in 1988, and PhD. from IIT Delhi in1993. He joined the DayalbaghEducational Institute in 1993, where he is at present the Head of theDepartment of Physics and ComputerScience. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities that include, including Harvard (USA), Waterloo(Canada), Würzburgand Regensburg (Germany), Osaka(Japan), City University, and Queen Mary University of London (UK), TIFR, Mumbai, and IISc.Bangalore (India). He has also been an Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and is a Member of the Global Panel of MIT Technology Review. Prof. Roy has made significant contributions in Photonics that encompass nano-bio-photonics, silicon and neuro photonics, fiber optics, and optical computing. His experimental and theoretical research on nano-bio-photonic systems that includes low-power and high-frequency optogenetic control of neural spiking, defines a new paradigm of technological convergence and innovation and opens up fascinating prospects for energy-efficient, ultrafast and low-cost all-optical information processing, sensing, energy conversion, and healthcare. He has won a number of awards and fellowships that include, the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 2001, JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan in 2004, H.C. Shah Research Endowment Prize by Sardar Patel University in 2006, 1st IETE B.B. Sen Memorial Award in 2007, IETE-Conference on Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies Award in 2012, IETE-M. Rathore Memorial Award in 2016, the Systems Society of India’s National Systems Gold Medal in 2016, and the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 2021. He also has been awarded seven best paper awards in international and national conferences. He has published 175 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings and 11 book chapters. He chaired the 8th World Conference and Expo on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Philadelphia, the USA in 2020. He has delivered more than 100 invited talks in India and abroad that include Keynote Addresses and Plenary Talks at International Conferences that include the prestigious International Year of Light commemorative Keynote Address, at the 38th Convocation of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), in 2015 and at the Annual Meeting of American Physical Society in 2008. He was the Guest Editor of the March 2011 Special Issue of IET Circuits, Devices and Systems Journal (UK) on Optical Computing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Photonics Journal. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, India, IETE (India), and the Optical Society of India. He is listed in the recent Stanford researchers’ study of Top 2% in World Ranking of Scientists-2020, in Optoelectronics and Photonics.

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Bahram Nabet is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, with an affiliated appointment in Materials Science and Engineering Department. His main research interest is in optoelectronic devices and systems. He approached this field by finding parallels between the interaction of light and matter in biological systems and in synthetic materials, resulting in one of the first integrations of photodetectors and neural network circuitry based on models of insect vision. He has been working on unconventional optoelectronic devices for their use in very high-speed, very low-noise, and low-power applications, using reduced dimensional systems such as quantum wells, wires, and dots. More recently he has combined transition metal carbides or carbonitrides, 2D MXenes, with two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems to produce photodetectors that overcome transit time as well as gain-bandwidth-product limitations. He is a co-author of >200 refereed publications and three books. The full e-book of his edited volume on Photodetectors, published by Elsevier in 2016 was downloaded >20K times, with its second edition scheduled for publication in 2022.

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Koen Bertels’ scientific research focuses on quantum computing and more specifically on the definition and implementation of a scalable quantum computer system for any scientific and operational field. He is currently building a new team to continue working on all layers of the full stack which has been my work from the first day working on quantum computing. After starting 11 years ago on quantum computing, he has moved almost exclusively to the use of perfect qubits, which have no decoherence and no errors in the quantum gates performed on the qubits. Perfect qubit is an older, theoretical concept, but it allows one to think about the algorithmic solutions one wants to study in any field without having to worry about returning to the ground state and all kinds of errors in quantum calculation. We call this the PISQ approach, where PISQ stands for Perfect (qubits) Intermediate Scale Quantum computing. This is complementary to the NISQ approach where the emphasis is on all the physics-based challenges and that is what the word Noisy represents. Being active in the Quantum Computing field for about 11 years, the team initially defined and developed all the layers in a quantum computer. The PISQ approach is relatively young, but the team is focusing now mostly on the application layers.

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Prof. Dr. Dieter Schuöcker is currently working at Vienna University of Technology in Austria, In 1965, he worked in Dip.-Ing.in Electr. Eng., TU Vienna and 1980 Voest Alpine Comp., Development of a Laser Cutting machine. In 1983, the Foundation of Argelas-Austrian Laser Association, a nonprofit industrial institution; Development of a revolutionary Multikilowatt CO2 Laser with coaxial geometry 1995 Full Prof. of Nonconv.Production, TU Vienna and 2009 Prof.em., Foundation of Upper Austria Laser Center Development of Laser-assisted bending, Temperature controlled laser hardening, 3D printing.

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Hans Deyssenroth studied electrical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe in Germany and physics with a Diploma degree at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He worked as an IT manager and biometrician in the Pharma industry in Switzerland and was the co-author of about 20 publications. After retirement he studied again the basics of physics and got increasing doubts that the existing models are correct, though they have been verified by many and manyfold experiments. Now he is proposing new experiments that could confirm these doubts and is thinking about alternative models that can explain the observed facts better.

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Shiva Kumar received an MS (1990) and Ph.D. degrees (1994) in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, India, and a Ph.D. degree (1997) in communications engineering from Osaka University, Japan. He was a Humboldt fellow at the University of Jena, Germany, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1997-to 98. He worked at Corning Incorporated, New York as a Senior Research Scientist (1998-2001), and then as a Project Leader (2001-2003). He is currently a Professor at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica) since 2019. He has authored a textbook on fiber optic communications (2014), edited a book on nonlinear fiber optics (2011), and has published about 90 papers in refereed journals and 8 book chapters. He was awarded the ‘R&D 100 award’ for the product design ‘Metrocor’ by R&D Magazine in 2001, the ‘circle of excellence award’ from the magazine Photonics spectra in 2001, and the ‘outstanding individual contributor award’ by Corning Inc., 2002. He holds 9 US patents in the field of fiber optics.

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During the last decade, Sergey Kobtsev’s research activity centered around mode-locked fiber lasers, and his personal accomplishments in this area have brought new fundamental insights into the generation mechanisms of these lasers and the non-linear transformation of their output. His work also resulted many times in the achievement of record-breaking output parameters of these lasers. The total record of S. Kobtsev's service exceeds 35 years. S. Kobtsev is distinguished with two academic degrees in physics and mathematics (Ph. D. and Doctor of Science) and the academic rank of docent. He has supervised the preparation and defense of 5 Ph. D. theses. In 2015, S. M. Kobtsev was honored with the OSA’s Outstanding Reviewer Recognition.

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Dr. Li Wang is the Researcher at the RIKEN research center for advanced photonic, Japan. He received her Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Nankai. The current research work is focusing on quantum semiconductor materials and related optoelectronic devices, mainly the quantum cascade lasers in far-infrared wave bands. He has been engaging in the epitaxy of semiconductor quantum wells/superlattices by using the MBE systems.

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Pieter Dekker, born in 1946 in Rotterdam The Netherlands, finished his studies in Applied Physics with honors at the institute now known as Eindhoven University of Technology. From then on, he worked on research of materials for deflection of laser beams by ultrasound and materials for use in Magneto-Optic memories. In 1974 he was granted the doctorate title by Delft University of Technology. He holds three patents in the field of magnetic memories and was co-author of a review volume on the Physics of Computer Memory Devices. From 1979 he worked in product development in the electronics industry and in the field of LCD displays. After his retirement, he became attracted to the physical background of quantum computing. Intrigued by the phenomenon of entangled electrons, he follows a theoretical path in the realm of Twin Physics to investigate the interaction between entangled quantum particles.

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Manaut Bouzid was born in 1972. In 2002: holder of a master's degree from the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech, in 2005: holder of a Ph.D. thesis from Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, in 2011: Associate Professor in Sultan Moulay Slimane University, and in 2017 full professor from Sultan Moulay Slimane University. He is currently working on laser-assisted high-energy processes. He is also interested in laser-assisted atomic processes.

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Dr. Shoji Hachuda received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. Degrees were all from Yokohama National University in 2010, 2012, and 2016, respectively. He has studied biosensing applications of GaInAsP semiconductor nanolasers. Currently, he is a postdoc of Prof. Baba's group and continuing the same research. He is a member of JSAP.

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Dr. Vineet Khullar obtained his Ph.D. in Opt-electronics from the University of Tennessee, the USA in 2019. He also worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the USA where he developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale imaging and sensing, providing a useful new tool for material science, bioimaging, and fundamental quantum research. He joined a laser manufacturing organization in 2018 where he developed and conducted experiments in laser photonics to understand the mechanism of thermal absorption in optical coatings. Dr. Khullar’s current research focuses on the development of optical probes which when coupled with surface plasmons in the evanescent fields enhance contribution from the target material and help map inhomogeneity and optical properties on the nanometer scale. Dr. Khullar’sresearch has resulted in over 10 publications in various peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as a number of international conference proceedings. Dr. Khullar’s work on plasmonic tips has gained big attention from scientific media (link1). He has collaborated with various scientific journals as a reviewer of over 15 scientific papers including SPIE and was also a guest editor of MDPI’s special issue of thin-film optical coatings.

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Shanting Hu received the B.S. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2011, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. During their Ph.D. period, he was concentrating on the work of lateral integration of VCSEL and functional devices. From 2020 to 2021, he continued his research on VCSEL integrated amplifier/beam scanner and high-Speed VCSEL technology as a Project Assistant Professor in the Koyama Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2022, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He has authored or co-authored over 20 papers in SCI-indexed journals and presented multiple times in some leading international conferences and workshops, including CLEO, OFC, and OECC. He was also awarded several Best Paper Awards by the committees of iNOW and ELEX. His research focuses on the area of VCSELs.

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Adelaida García-Magariño studied Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid finishing her studies in November 2009. She started working at INTA in Spain in February 2010 as an external consultant and approved the exam to become a civil servant at INTA in November 2016, taking possession on December 15, 2017. When she started working, she also started the University Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering that gave access to the doctorate, finishing the Master's studies in November 2011. He began his research career in the field of deformation and breakup of droplets in the vicinity of the leading edge of an airfoil for ice formation on aircraft wings, within the framework of an INTA-NASA collaboration. In September 2014 she began her doctorate entitled “Water Droplet Deformation and Breakup in the vicinity of the leading edge of an incoming airfoil” directed by A. Velázquez at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, finishing her Ph.D. in November 2016. Since 2017, she has expanded her field of study to other areas of experimental aerodynamics and engineering such as aerodynamics on the deck of aircraft carriers, the flow field around the Martian Rover, the study of filters to be embarked on aerial research platforms, the ILIDS method for long-range measurements, or the naval hydrodynamics. She has participated in the projects PHOBIC2ICE (Super-IcePhobic Surfaces to Prevent Ice Formation on Aircraft), SENS4ICE (SENSors and certifiable hybrid architectures for safer aviation in ICing Environment), DFLOW (Droplet deformation and breakup in normal and supercooled conditions in aeronautics related flows), MICRAS (Scientific missions from manned and unmanned aerial platforms), ELECTROBIOTA (Development and implementation of sampling equipment for the study of airborne microorganisms at altitude: one stage electrostatic precipitators in Aerial Research Platforms), MEDA (Science and Technology of space instruments for the characterization of the martian environment in multiple NASA missions: REMS, TWINS and MEDA. Phase C/D), MINEOLICA (Promotion of small power wind technology), EnviroPlanet (Thematic Network of Micro- and Nano plastics in the Environment) and CAMELIA-MICRO (The Cycle of Aerosols on Mars and Earth, a comparative study. Implications for LIfe and PlAnetary Protection). Up to now, she has published more than 20 scientific papers in journals belonging to the JCR rank, she has participated in a patent and in works presented in more than 40 conferences.

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Prof. David Abookasis is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Ariel University, Israel where is served as the head of the medical engineering program, deputy head of the Department, and the head of the Master's program. He joined the Department in October 2010 after post-doctoral fellow at the Beckman Laser Institute (BLI) of the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Prof. Abookasis's main research is in the area of optical medical instrumentation. He possesses a multi-disciplinary background combining engineering, optics, biomedical optics, and medical instrumentations. Prof. Abookasis holds a number of patents, is a winner of awards and scholarships, author of papers, and book chapters, and serves as a committee member in different professional associations.

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Dr.Ruijie Luo received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 2019for his research on high-dynamic synchronized control mechanisms for optical networks and their applications. After graduation, he joined the Optical Networks Group at University College London as a Research Fellow, working on the EPSRC TRANSNET project. His main research area includes intelligent optical network design and operation, especially on network throughput estimation, topology design, routing, multi-dimensional resource allocation, high-dynamic network control mechanism, etc.

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Dragana Gabrić is an Assistant Professor and senior research scientist at the University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine. She received her Ph.D. degree in Oral Surgery, experimental laser bone surgery research field (2010), from the University of Zagreb. She has numerous research visits to Germany, Slovenia, Serbia, and Macedonia. She currently teaches undergraduate, graduate and doctoral-level core courses (Oral Surgery, Preclinical Oral Surgery, Dental Implantology, Pre-prosthetic Surgery, Surgical Prosthodontics, Current Concepts of Local Anesthesia) Her research, clinical and professional interests include minimally invasive techniques in dental implantology, augmentative techniques in oral surgery, platelet-rich fibrin usage for bone defects, laser-assisted soft and bone tissue surgery. She was a member of one national project of the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sport (“Healing of defects after immediate implant placement”). She has been involved in the international collaboration (School of Dental Medicine, University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia; King’s College London, UK; University of Greenwich, UK) “Histological and ultrastructural evaluation of bone healing after Er: YAG laser, piezo tone, and surgical drill osteotomy – in vivo study”, serving as a supervisor of a Ph.D. student who is doing research on the healing of bone defects after usage of different surgical methods for bone preparation on experimental animals. She has published 127 papers (16 in CC and 1 in Sci base) and conference proceedings (18 in CC and 3 in SCI base), 10 papers in Index Medicus-Medline, Scopus, 31 conference papers in Index Medicus-Medline, Scopus; 34 papers in other journals, 12 other conference proceedings, 2 elaborates on English and Russian languages; 4 chapters in international and domestic professional books. She has been active in organizing national and international congresses, conferences, and workshops and active participant in many international scientific and professional courses and congresses. She has invited speakers of several international scientific and professional courses, congresses, and Universities (China, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Ukraine, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria). She is a member of the Croatian Chamber of Dental Medicine, Croatian Society of Oral Surgeons, Croatian Association for Dental Implantology, Croatian Medical Association, Croatian Society for Maxillofacial, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Face and Neck, Laser and Health Academy, and reviewer for several international scientific journals (Journal of Periodontology, Acta Stomatological Croatica, Journal of CranioMaxillary Diseases, Microscopy and Microanalysis, Journal of Laser, Optics & Photonics)

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Dr. Xiaojiang Yu obtained his Ph.D. in synchrotron radiation applications from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003. After graduation, he joined Singapore Synchrotron Light Source as a beamline scientist at SINS beamline National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has been long-term pursuing optical design for synchrotron radiation beamlines and spectrometers, and experimental study in the field of material science with techniques of photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption (XAS), and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). He has designed and constructed a number of beamline optics in the energy range of EUV to hard X-ray, applied in spectroscopy, inelastic scattering, and EUV lithography optics test stand. He has been awarded excellent alumni of the National University of Singapore in 2020 and appointed as a Principal Research Fellow in 2022. He has published over 130 publications in various peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as a number of international conference proceedings and as a reviewer of over 10 international scientific journals.

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I'm Hassen Dhifaoui. I received my Ph.D. Degree in Physics in 2021 from the University of Sciences of Monastir (Tunisia) in collaboration with the Basque Center for Materials, Applications, and Nanostructures (Spain). I then worked as a temporary teacher at the same university. Currently, I am working as a Post-Doc at the National Institute of Materials Physics (Romania). I have several research articles about organic semiconductors, p-conjugated small organic molecules, and perovskite solar cells.

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Dr. Gao Yuan is an Engineer, at Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Institute. Ph.D., Harbin Institute of Technology. He Engaged in the research and development of space photoelectric detection and navigation products for a long time. His recent research includes space relative pose measurement and space docking by means of solid-state lidar.