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Dr. Akihiko Kasukawa received B.S, M.S and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering all from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He jointed Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. At Furukawa, he has been engaged in R&D of long wavelength semiconductor lasers. From 1990 to 1991, he was at Bellcore for developing high performance QW lasers. He conducted R&D of high-power lasers both 980nm and 1480nm for EDFA, widely tunable lasers based on arrayed DFB, and high performance 1060nm VCSELs. He is a Senior Fellow at Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. He served IEEE Photonics Society as a Board of Governor. He was a General Chair of 28th International Semiconductor Laser Conference(ISLC2022), track chair of Photonics West LASE. He served as a President of Electronics Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Japanese Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) and IEICE of Japan.

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Kei May Lau is a Research Professor in the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). She received her degrees from the University of Minnesota and Rice University and served as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst before joining HKUST in the summer of 2000. Lau is a Fellow of the IEEE, Optica (formerly OSA), and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. She was also a recipient of the IPRM award, IET J J Thomson medal for Electronics, Optica Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award, US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Awards for Women (FAW) Scientists and Engineers, and Hong Kong Croucher Senior Research Fellowship. She was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and Electron Device Letters, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crystal Growth and Applied Physics Letters.

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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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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. Edik U. Rafailov Prof. Edik U. Rafailov received the Ph.D. degree from Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1992. In 1997, he moved to St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK and in 2005, he established a new group in Dundee University, Scotland, UK. In 2014, he and his Optoelectronics and Biomedical Photonics Group moved to Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He has authored and coauthored more than 500 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including four books, over ten invited chapters and numerous plenary/invited talks. His current research interests include high-power CW and ultra-short pulsed lasers, generation of UV/visible/IR/MIR and THz radiation, nanostructures, nonlinear and integrated optics, and biomedical photonics. He coordinated the €14.7M FP7 FAST-DOT project development of new ultrafast lasers for biophotonics applications and the €12.5M NEWLED project which aims to develop a new generation of white LEDs. He also coordinated the H2020 FET projects: Mesa-Brain (aims to develop 3D nano-printing technology for functional three-dimensional human stem cell derived neural networks), and recently coordinate NEUROPA (aims to develop novel non-invasive brain theragnostic approaches), and PLATFORMA. He also leads a few other projects funded by EU FP7, H2020 and EPSRC. In 2014 he has been awarded the Lebedev Medal of the Russian Optical Society and in 2022 elected as a Fellow of Optica (former OSA).

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Ji-Xin Cheng attended University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) from 1989 to 1994. From 1994 to 1998, he carried out his PhD study on bond-selective chemistry at USTC. As a graduate student, he worked as a research assistant at Universite Paris-sud (France) on vibrational spectroscopy and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on quantum dynamics theory. After postdoctoral training on ultrafast spectroscopy at HKUST, he joined Sunney Xie’s group at Harvard University as a postdoc, where he spearheaded the development of CARS microscopy that allows high-speed vibrational imaging. Cheng joined Purdue University in 2003 as Assistant Professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor in 2013. He joined Boston University as the Inaugural Theodore Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics in summer 2017. Cheng is authored in 300+ peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 94 (Google Scholar). Cheng and his team has been constantly at the most forefront of chemical imaging in innovation, discovery, and clinical translation. Chemical microscopes based on his innovations, including CARS, hyperspectral SRS, mid-infrared photothermal microscopes, are installed and used in many countries worldwide. His research has been supported by ~40 million ($) funding from federal agencies including NIH, NSF, DoD, DoE and private foundations including Chan-Zuckerburg Initiative and Keck Foundation. In 2014 He co-founded Vibronix Inc which is devoted to vibration-based imaging technologies and medical device innovations. In 2019, he co-founded Pulsethera aiming to kill superbugs by photolysis of intrinsic chromophores. In addition, Cheng is the Scientific Advisor of Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp, Pulsethera, and Axorus. Cheng is a Fellow of Optical Society of America, a Fellow of American Institute of Medicine and Biological Engineering, and associate editor of Science Advances. Cheng initiated the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Imaging, held in Easton, MA in August 2023. Among his honors, Cheng received the 2020 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, the 2019 Ellis R. Lippincott Award from Optica, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society, the 2016 Research Award from Purdue University College of Engineering, and the 2015 Craver Award from Coblentz Society. He was chosen as the Boston University Innovator of Year 2022.

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Alexey received his scientific degrees, PhD and Dr.Sci. (Habil) under the guidance of Prof. Zhores Alferov, who won Nobel Prize 2000 for the invention of semiconductor double heterostructure and demonstration of the first room temperature diode laser at Ioffe Institute, known as "Soviet Union Bell Lab". Alexey has numerous scientific publications, conference presentations, patents and awards in the field of diode lasers and LEDs. From 2000 till 2003 he was a visiting scientist in ITRI, Taiwan. Together with his colleagues from Ioffe Institute, Alexey started and brought to success two photonics companies Innolume GmbH (2003) and Optogan Oy (2004) serving them in executive positions. Alexey's team at Innolume demonstrated the first diode comb-laser and 10Gbps error-free transmission on each lasing line in 2007. Innolume produces and ships worldwide a broad range of photonics components based on self-assembled semiconductor Quantum Dots. Today Optogan, renamed to Klever-LED after the acquisition in 2019, is the biggest manufacturer of white LED packages in Europe. From 2015 and till Alfalume foundation in 2022 Alexey served several Tier 1 US companies in leading technical roles.

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Dr. Zhenguo Lu is a Principal Research Officer, Team Lead of Photonics Devices and Project Leader of 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 serves as an Adjunct Professor at 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 Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1993 to 1995. Then he worked at Terahertz Research Centre of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, 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 has 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 in the international conferences, universities and industry companies. Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Optica.

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Ali Adibi is the director of Bio and Environmental Sensing Technologies (BEST) and a professor and Joseph M. Pettit chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research group has pioneered several structures in the field of integrated nanophotonics for information processing, sensing, and quantum photonic applications. He is the author of more than 180 journal papers and 450 conference papers. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics, and the nanophotonic program track chair of the Photonics West meeting. He is the recipient of several awards including Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Packard Fellowship,NSF CAREER Award, and the SPIE Technology Achievement Award. He is also a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and AAAS.

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Prof. 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 interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published over 200 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >10,000 citations, five edited books, two book chapters, >60 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 2 tutorial, >40 plenary and >50 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.

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Daniel Farkas, PhD –Trained in Theoretical Physics, with a PhD in Biophysics, he was a Fulbright scholar, and directed an interdisciplinary National Science & Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon Univ. that won the Smithsonian Award for Science. He was Professor of Bioengineering at U. Pittsburgh, and Vice-chairman for Research and Professor of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Currently Research Professor at USC, he is investigating the living state with light, for uses in biology, bioengineering, and especially medicine. This yielded 200+ articles, 32 books edited and $80 million in academic funding. He chaired 35 international conferences, and his work was recognized with prestigious awards. He founded a dozen startups and advised Bill Gates as a Global Good Fellow. Fluent in 6 languages.

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Mohamed Benyoucef is Head of the Nano Optics Group at the University of Kassel, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and his Habilitation from the University of Kassel, Germany. His research focuses on quantum dots, quantum optics, and nanophononics, including the development of novel and advanced quantum nanoarchitectures; the integration of III-V semiconductor light sources into silicon, fabrication, and characterization of nano-/micro-cavities in combination with integrated quantum emitters; the study of molecule complexes and their integration into solid-state platforms as hybrid quantum systems for quantum technology applications.Heis the editor of the recently published book "Photonic Quantum Technologies: Science and Applications”by Wiley-VCH.He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals, including Nature and Science. In addition to being a member of the editorial advisory board for journals, he is also a guest editor for special issues. Moreover, he organized conferences, symposiums, and workshops.

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Dr. Vitaly Shchukin received the Diploma in physics and engineering from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, and the PhD and Doctor of Sciences Degrees in physics and mathematics from Abraham Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, in 1983, 1987 and 1999, respectively. He was with Abraham Ioffe Institute, Technical University of Berlin, NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH (now Innolume GmbH), Dortmund. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at VI Systems GmbH, Berlin. He authored and co-authored >250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, over 30 patent families and a monograph. His research topics cover self-organization phenomena at the epitaxy of nanostructures and development of advanced optoelectronic devices with novel functionality including specially designed vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, edge-emitting lasers, light-emitting diodes, single photon sources, etc. He is recipient of the State Prize of Russia for Science and Technology in 2001 and of the Abraham Ioffe Prize in 1999 and 2002.

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A.S. studied physics and received his diploma degree from Technical University of Berlin in 1996. At the same place, he received in 2002 the doctoral degree in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) and in 2012 habilitation degree in experimental physics. During his career, he worked on epitaxial growth of III/V-related semiconductor materials by MOVPE including phosphides, arsenides, and nitrides for optoelectronic devices such as lasers, LEDs, photodetectors. From 2008-2010 A.S. joined the electronic materials device laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, CA) for work on semi-polar GaN-based green lasers and novel nitride lasers. In 2014 he joined Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Since 2016 he holds the Chair of Semiconductor Epitaxy at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Magdeburg. Current research topics include novel epitaxial growth methods such as sputter epitaxy and laser-assisted epitaxy, semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices as well as advanced X-ray diffraction methods. A.S. authored more than 150 journal and conference publications, 2 book chapters and more than 30 patents.

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“Telecommunications Engineer with an M.Sc. in Advanced Electronic Systems by the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. He has experience of more than 15 years working as an R&D engineer in several research institutes, focusing his research area on embedded hardware and software, edge computing and edge artificial intelligence, applying these technologies to multidisciplinary areas ranging from autonomous driving and smart mobility to advance manufacturing"

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Wolfgang Elsäßer was born in Pforzheim, Germany. He received the diploma degree in Physics from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1980, the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University in Stuttgart in 1984, and a Habilitation degree in Experimental Physics from the Philipps-University Marburg in 1991. From 1981 to 1985, he was with the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart. From 1985 to 1995, he was with the Philipps-University Marburg. Since 1995, he is Full Professor in the Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany working in the field of Semiconductor Optics. In 2022 he has been nominated as Adjunct Professor in the School of Physics of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and in April 2022as Associato all’ Istituto di elettronica e di ingegneria dell'informazione e delle telecomunicazioni del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IEIIT-CNR) in Torino, Italy. He is a member of the German Physical Society (DPG), Member of the European Physical Society and actually elected member of the council of the EPS and a Senior Member of IEEE. He was awarded with the Otto-Hahn-Medal (1985), the Werner-von-Siemens-Medal (1985), the Rudolf-Kaiser Prize (1991) and the IEE J.J. Thomson Premium (1995). His research interests can be best described by “Photonics and Quantum Optics of Semiconductor Emitters”.

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Anna Backerra 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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Dr. Benito Alén received his PhD in Physics in 2004 from the University of Valencia (Spain). Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for NanoScience of the Ludwig Maximilians Universit ät (CENS, LMU-Munich), the Instituto de CienciasFotónicas (ICFO, Barcelona) and the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (IMM, CNM-CSIC), since 2012, he leads the Quantum Nanooptoelectronics Lab at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology, IMN-CSIC. His research interests are onoptical spectroscopy, optoelectronics and quantum photonics in arsenides, phosphides and antimonides.

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Professor Hogg’s research spans developing epitaxial processes, device designs and processing, through to devices for system applications. This includes quantum dot devices, quantum cascade lasers, resonant tunneling diode THz emitters, super-luminescent diodes, and photonic crystal surface emitting lasers. Professor Hogg has 28 years post-doctoral experience in compound semiconductor technologies, spanning research, development, and manufacturing. This includes; Three years experience in a key foundry management role (Manager of Materials Characterization) at Agilent Technologies, Ipswich, which was the highest volume III-V facility in Europe, at the time (2000-2003) ; Five years experience in corporate R&D laboratories (NTT, Toshiba) developing advanced device concepts and technologies ; Twenty years in University R&D (Universities of Sheffield, Glasgow, and now Aston) where he has built a research group developing novel light sources; their manufacture (epitaxial growth, device fabrication), device physics and engineering, and applications. His research has resulted in two new ventures in 2020 – Vector Photonics Ltd (commercializing photonic crystal surface emitting lasers), and III-V Epi Ltd (a small-medium supplier of epitaxial wafers and services).

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Professor Tatjana Gric (female), since 2003 has been engaged in the investigation of waveguide devices (waveguide modulators, filters etc.), namely on proposing their electrodynamical analysis of various complex structures (e.g., tissue-like structures). Another major goal of her studies is plasmonics as the examination of the interaction between electromagnetic field and free electrons in a metal. The optically-active nanostructures have been simulated and their fundamental photonic properties have been explored. During past few years she has been working on the investigation of the nanostructured composites and their fascinating properties. She has authored and co-authored over 70 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She also holds 1LT patent.

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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 uptime 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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Dr. Jun Zhang received his B.S. degree on Physics, M.S. degree on Optics from Fudan University and Ph.D. degree on Optics from Shanghai Jiaotong University, respectively. From 2002 to 2015, Dr. Zhang had been working in the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine as a postdoctoral researcher, an assistant project scientist and an assistant research professor respectively. In 2015, Dr. Zhang joined the faculty of Sun Yat-sen University-Carnegie Mellon University Joint Institute of Engineering as a tenure-track professor. Dr. Jun Zhang is currently a professor in School of Electronics and Information Technology at Sun Yat-sen University and a professor in School of Artificial Intelligence at Guilin University of Electronic Technology. Dr. Zhang’s expertise lies in research and development of biomedical imaging, particularly the new non-invasive and minimally-invasive optical imaging technologies of optical coherence tomography (OCT), fiber optic endoscopy, and translation of these techniques to address clinical problems. Dr. Zhang has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers, 30 conference proceedings, and five book chapters.

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Andrey Grishchenko is a Head of R&D at CeramOptec SIA. He received his PhD degree from The Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in Latvia in 1993. Starting in2000, Andrey’s studies were dedicated to optical fibers and their manufacturing technologies. He joined CeramOptec SIA in 2011 to initiate all-silica preforms manufacturing in Latvia. His current interests are related to the development of medical solutions based on all-silica fiber products, studies of defects formation in all-silica fibers, and optimization of manufacturing technologiesfor increased fiber durability. Recent acquisition of Ampliconyx Oy require intensive development of techniques for active tapered fiber manufacturing.

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Prof. Friedrich Grimm was born in Stuttgart in 1954. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1980. After having finished his studies in 1981, he worked as an employed architect and later on temporarily joined the scientific staff of the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart. During his practice as a freelanced architect, since 1989 he took part in competitions and completed several multifamily houses in southern Germany. Due to a series of books, which he has written in the field of steel construction, edited by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin (2003), and one the subject of one family homes, edited by Callwey in Munich (2006), he was nominated a professor honorary in 2009 by the faculty one, for architecture and urban design at the university of Stuttgart. In 2016, he founded the RES- Institute as a completely independant think tank in the field of renewable energies. Since then he works with passion and endurance on projects matching the RES-Institutes obligation to provide blueprints for a friendly climate on earth. Several patents in the field of concentrated solar thermal systems led him into the field of optics where he invented a wide angel sensor, recording light signals with infinite depth of field in real time. Among his inventions there is also a new achromatic lens focusing light of different wave lengths, even x-rays. His latest invention relates to a quantum mechanical device which, making use of the electronic spin, is creating a toroidial and a poloridial magnetic field component in an electromagnetically enclosed plasma of a fusion reactor.

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Haizhong Weng is a Research Fellow at the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin. He holds a Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid Electronics from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. With a decade of research experience in semiconductors, optoelectronics, and integrated photonics, he has authored 34 journal publications and 23 conference papers. Dr. Weng's research focuses on microcavity lasers, microresonator frequency combs, and optical communication.

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Dr. Matthew Bohn was completed his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1998 studying under Prof. Jean-Claude Diels. Numerous papers on short pulsed ring laser gyroscopes and terahertz spectroscopy including an invited book chapter. Numerous patents in the last 6 years related to quantum computing.

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Dr. Toshi-Taka Ikeshoji is participating in TRAFAM, a Japanese national project for manufacturing metal 3D printers, and is engaged in elucidating the phenomena around the molten pool of the laser powder bed fusion and predicting the occurrence of defects by numerical analysis. He has published various results in PBF-LB fabrication of pure copper and PBF-LB fabrication of Inconel718 under high-speed laser scanning conditions. Current task is the building of the monitoring & feedback system of powder bed fusion to mitigate the internal defects. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo for a research of aerospace materials and engaged in the research of brazing and joining technology in Tokyo Institute of Technology for more than 10 years. His research was mainly on the aerospace materials, for example, a heat resistance super alloy, ceramics, and carbon composites. *TRAFAM = Technology Research Association for Future Additive Manufacturing.

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CHONGYANG LIU received the Ph.D. degree in semiconductor photonics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU),Singapore, in 2004. He was a Research Associate with the Singapore-MIT Alliance Project from2004 to 2005 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU, from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to2009, he was a Senior Research Fellow with the A*STAR “VIP” Program on Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronic Integration, Data Storage Institute, Singapore. From October 2009 to January 2012, he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship (for experienced researcher) from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for doing research in Technical University Berlin, Germany in Prof. Dieter Bimberg’s group. He is currently a Principal Investigator/Principal Research Scientist with Temasek Laboratories, NTU. His research interests include design, simulation, fabrication, characterization, and analysis of high-power quantum well lasers, ultrafast quantum dot lasers, microwave photonics as well as their integration with Si photonics. He has authored and co-authored more than120 technical articles in these fields so far.

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Professor Salman Noach received his Ph.D. in physics in 2003 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ISRAEL. In 2007 he returned back to Academy at the "Jerusalem College of Technology" and founded the Solid State Lasers Laboratory there. The lab is mainly engaged in applied research and development of CW and pulsed solid-state lasers, nonlinear optics, Raman wavelength shifting, and Optical amplifiers in the SWIR and mid-IR range. The results of the lab research were the object of many publications in high-ranked journals in the optics and laser community and two patents. He is a senior member of OSA and a member of SPIE.

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Prof. Avi Peer is an expert in quantum optics and laser physics. My research aim is to harness the optical bandwidth resource for optical science and technology on both the quantum and classical level, using broadband, highly multimode, correlated light. At the quantum level I explore ultra-broadband squeezed light and time-energy entangled photons for applications of ultrafast quantum communication and squeezing-enhanced sensing. With classical optics I explore the coherent dynamics of mode-locked pulsed lasers and coupled parametric oscillators towards new sources of frequency-combs and for precision ultrafast measurement. Avi Peer is a faculty member of the Physics department and BINA center for nanotechnology In Bar Ilan University Since 2008. He received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute (2005) in physics and completed post-doctoral research at JILA, University of Colorado.

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Luis Alberto Pérez obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the INFIQC-National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2015. The thesis is entitled: 'Optics at the nanoscale: Plasmonic Nanostructures design with application to ultrasensitive spectroscopic detection of molecules.' In 2018, he joined the Institute of Material Sciences in Barcelona. He was honored with a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from 2019 to 2021. His research interests focus on light-matter interaction, nanostructure synthesis, and electrodynamic simulations. He is currently working on colloidal nanoparticle arrays, hot electron generation, and CO2 photoreduction.

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N.S.Kopeika was born in Baltimore in 1944. He received B.Sc.,M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. He joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1973. He chaired the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [1989-1993], and in1994 was named Reuven and Francis Feinberg Professor of Electrooptics. He was the first chair of the Department of Electrooptics and Photonics Engineering 1999-2005, which grants graduate degrees only. He and Shlomi Arnon were awarded the JJ Thomson Award by the IEE in 1999 for their outstanding paper. In 2001 he was awarded the Glant Prize for excellence in teaching. He is a Fellow of SPIE (2000). He has published over 200 papers in international reviewed journals and over 180 papers at various conferences. Recent research involves development of a novel inexpensive focal plane array camera for terahertz imaging.. Other areas of research include: interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasmas, the optogalvanic effect, environmental effects on optoelectronic devices, imaging system theory, propagation of light, images, and wireless communication through the atmosphere, image processing and restoration from atmospheric, motion and vibration blur, lidar, and target acquisition.. He is the author of the textbook A SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPROACH TO IMAGING published by SPIE Press [first printing 1998, second printing 2000], He also co-authored with Nathan Blaunstein, Shlomi Arnon, and Arkadi Zilberman APPLIED ASPECTS OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND LIDAR (CRC Press 2010), and co-edited with Nathan Blaunstein OPTICAL WAVES AND LASER BEAMS IN THE IRREGULAR ATMOSPHERE (CRC Press 2018).

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Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin is currently working as senior researcher 1st degree at the National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics - INOE 2000, Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin received her PhD in physics from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Romania. Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin has authored 65+ scientific papers published in journals indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge, 50+ international conference proceedings papers/presentations, 2 co-authored books and 1 unique author book with 1296 citations (web of science, h- index 14). Her publications reflect her research interests in biomedical imaging, tissue optics, and laser-tissue interaction. Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin has also participated in 11 national and international projects, is a reviewer for five prestigious journals, and a member of the Editorial Board for American Journal of Optics and Photonics. Her research interests include: (i) biomedical optics (optical and thermal properties of living matter, light-matter interactions, optical and hyperspectral imaging); (ii) signal modeling and processing for hyperspectral imaging; (iii) combination of physics-based modeling with statistical tools; and (iv) model recognition and machine learning for biomedical applications.

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Master in Social Memory from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio). Has a degree in Museology also from Unirio. Currently works as a Technician in Restoration of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), performs the role of Head of the Central Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of the National Museum. Was part of the National Museum Collection Rescue Team. Was a museologist at the Ilha Grande Ecomuseum of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) until early 2015. Has experience in the area of Museology and Restoration, working mainly in the following themes: conservation, collections, museology and social memory.

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Dragos Manea is currently working as a scientific researcher at National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, Magurele, Romania since 2016. He is currently a Ph.D. student with interests in software development and artificial intelligence. Dragos Manea completed his Masters in Medical Physics from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics. Areas of activity includes: software development with medical applications, modeling and data processing for hyperspectral imaging , the application of statistical elements in combination with physics-based modeling, the application of machine learning methods for biomedical applications and, a good understanding and working experience with different fundamental elements and concepts of medical image processing and analysis using artificial intelligence techniques.

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Luís Cancela received the Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology from Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the same university, where he has been lecturing on telecommunication networks and optical communication systems. He is also a researcher of the Optical Communications and Photonics Group of Instituto de Telecomunicações since 1999. He has authored or co-authored 2 book chapters, 12 journal publications and 37 international conference papers. His research interests include physical layer impairments modelling in multiband optical networks, ROADM architectures and optical networks planning.

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I received the BSc degree in Physics in 2016 from University of Delhi, Delhi, India, and the MSc degree in Physics in 2018 from University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Currently I am working as a research scholar from 2019 in Luminescent Materials and Devices Development Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

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Ilgim Efeturk is one of the first full students of Turkey's first Department of Photonics which was founded in 2015 and serves undergraduate education since in 2019. She is one of the few founding members of the IZTECH Optics and Photonics Society (IZTECH-OPS), which was established on August 5, 2020 as an OPTICA (formerly OSA) Student Chapter and was the first official photonics student branch established within the institute. In addition to being Representative of IZTECH Department of Photonics and Representative of IZTECH Faculty of Science, she is the first female President of the Student Council in the history of her university, which was founded in 1992 and has 6500+ students. In addition to these, she is the Founder and President of IZTECH Quality Community, which was established in December, 2022, in order to disseminate the quality culture in higher education and R&D fields, internalize quality processes, increase the participation of students in the quality assurance system and to carry out studies in this field. She was awarded as one of the 20 Women Scholars to be supported financially and academically in 2022, selected worldwide by Optica (formerly OSA). She became the first Turkish student to be selected for this scholarship supported by major companies such as Google, Intel and Meta to empower the next generation of women leaders in optics and photonics; which accepts student applications from 36 countries and has a very difficult selection process due to its extraordinary application pool. In addition, she is one of the 53 female students and is the first & only photonics student supported academically under the WE-inTech Program which was officially launched by Arçelik Global in Turkey, Arctic in Romania, Defy Appliances in South Africa and Dawlance in Pakistan, and made available for the first time on a global scale to support women in new generation research and development fields. Ilgim successfully completed her internship within the scope of the Eastern Anatolia Observatory in Erzurum, which hosts Turkey's largest and first NIR telescope with a diameter of 4 meters and she worked on the AO+RC+aO+DR optical performance of the DAG Telescope, especially on astrooptics which includes the adaptive optics & derotator system. She is currently doing a research internship on space robotics, and also conducts various studies on photonics and entrepreneurship & leadership within prestigious institutions in Turkey.

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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 in 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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Barbora Špačková studied physical engineering at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where she received her Ph.D degree. In her research, she focuses on photonics and its applications in biotechnology. During a postdoctoral stay at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, she developed a unique optical microscopy technique - Nanofluidic Scattering Microscopy (NSM) - that enables direct and label-free imaging of individual biomolecules. She is also a co-founder of the Swedish spin-off company Envue that focuses on the commercialization of NSM in the fields of biology, medicine or pharmacology. In 2022, she returned to the Czech Republic, where she is establishing a research group at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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Gil Shalev is an associate professor with the school of electrical and computer engineering, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His main research interests involve light trapping and broadband absorption of solar radiation based on arrays of nanostructures for various photonic and photovoltaic applications, as well as the exploration of novel field-effect devices for bioelectronics and biosensors. He gained his scientific education and experience at Tel-Aviv University in Israel and in the Max-Planck Institute in Germany.

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My name is Opondo Broono, IoT and Embedded Systems enthusiasts. I am a student engineer at Kenyatta university taking EEE , I major in photonics aspects. I am also the chair IEEE photonics Kenyatta university SB.