Track 1. Luminescent and Advanced Materials

Chairs: Alicja Bachmatiuk, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Joanna Cybinska, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Jarosław Myśliwiec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
               Xialong Cheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

• Physics, modelling, processing and characterization of luminescent materials
• Phosphors, quantum dots and low dimensional materials for lighting and displays
• Advances in scintillator development and upconversion materials
• Luminescent materials for photovoltaic applications
• Infrared materials
• Ternary halide and chalcogenide materials (including perovskites)
• Low-dimensional materials (two-, one-. And, zero-dimensional materials)
• Other advanced materials

Track 2. III-V and Integrated Optical Devices

Chairs: Detlef Hommel, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Lukasz Janicki, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Robert Kudrawiec, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Didit Yudistira, IMEC, Belgium
               Jianguo Liu, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, China

• III-V photonics
• Design, fabrication, and characterization of novel integrated devices
• Device packaging, performance and reliability test
• Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics
• Large-scale photonic integrated systems
• High speed light sources, modulators, and detectors
• Waveguide and other passive optoelectronic devices
• Semiconductor materials growth and device development
• Lasers for Datacom/Telecom wavelength
• VCSEL and LIDARs
• MicroLEDs and applications

Track 3. Polymer and Flexible Photonics

Chairs: Anna Szerling, Lukasiewicz – IMIF, Poland
               Małgorzata Guzik, University of Wroclaw, Poland
               Somnath Mahato, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

• Design approaches to increase bending flexibility of photonic structures
• Stretchable photonics: lessons learnt from stretchable electronics
• Polymer synthesis
• Polymer for photovoltaics and light-emitting devices
• Materials design considerations for flexible photonics
• Transfer printing of semiconductor nanomembrane structures and devices
• Monolithic integration on plastic substrates
• Optical links for board-level interconnects
• Broadband tunable photonic devices
• Flexible detector/LED arrays

Track 4. Optical Subsystems, Systems and Networks

Chairs: Freddy Hongyan Fu, Tsinghua University, China
               Jianqiang Li, LightsAI Solution, China
               Qirui Huang, Huawei International Pte Ltd
               Xijia Zheng, Google LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• Modelling, Analysis, Design, Implementation of Subsystems and systems
• Subsystems for Modulation, Detection, Estimation
• Subsystems for Wavelength, Space and Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, TDM)
• Optical Wireless Communication
• Sensing, Positioning, Navigation
• Optical transmission systems and subsystems
• Core/Metro Network and Subsystem
• Optical Access Network and Subsystem
• Data Center Network and Subsystem
• Optical Networking for Computing Applications
• Converged Network

Track 5. Microwave Photonics

Chairs: Hao Hu, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
               Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang University, China
               Zixiong Wang, Tianjin University, China
               Lei Deng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• Photonics generation of microwave signals
• Photonics processing of microwave signals
• Photonic true time delay beamforming for phased array antennas
• THz communications
• Flexible waveform generation and propagation of millimeter-wavelength radio signals for 5G and beyond-5G applications
• Tunable photonic filters with features suitable to microwave applications
• Photonics-based measure of backscattered microwave signals
• In-field implementation of photonics-based radar networks
• Programmable microwave photonics
• Quantum communication application

Track 6. Biophotonics and Optical Biomedicine

Chairs: Shuwen Zheng, University of Technology of Troyes, France
               Christophe Dujardin, University of Claude Bernard Lyon, France
               Michal Makowski, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Gina Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

• Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging: systems and applications
• Optical coherence tomography: light sources, systems, and applications
• Nonlinear microscopy, coherent Raman scattering microscopy, and high-resolution microscopy techniques
• Photoacoustic tomography or microscopy, acousto-optical imaging
• Optical trapping and manipulation, and their applications in biophotonics
• Lasers, supercontinuum lasers, fiber lasers and their biomedical applications
• Clinical and Translational Biophotonics
• Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics
• Cardiac Optogenetics
• In-Vivo Label-Free Optical Spectroscopy

Track 7. Fiber-Based Technologies and Applications

Chairs: Yiyang Luo, Chongqing University, China
              Wenjun Ni, South-Central Minzu University, China
               Dominik Kowal, Lukasiewicz– PORT, Poland
               Abdul Kuddus Sheikh, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland

• Micro/nano-structured fibers
• Soft glass fibers
• Crystal fibers
• Fiber designs and theory
• New processes for fiber manufacturing
• Active fibers for high power lasing
• Fibers for ultrafast lasers/supercontinuum generation
• Fibers for high energy delivery
• Fibers for sensing applications
• Fibers for gyroscopes
• Fibers for diagnostics and therapy
• Fibers for wearable devices
• Fibers for optical communication
• Fibers for optical signal processing

Track 8. Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Chairs: Muhammad Danang Birowosuto, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Husin Alatas, IPB University, Indonesia
               Mateusz Slowikowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
               Landobasa Tobing, A*Star, Singapore

• Plasmonics and nano-optics
• Photothermal and photoelectric nanophotonics
• Optical antennas and plasmonics-based devices
• Plasmon-enhanced photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and solar fuels
• Super-resolution imaging
• Linear and nonlinear metamaterials
• Chiral and hyperbolic metamaterials
• Acoustic and thermal metamaterials
• Metamaterial-based devices
• Metasurfaces and flat optics
• AI for metamaterial design

Track 9. Optical Sensors and Systems

Chairs: Krzysztof Rola, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               York Haemisch, Varex Imaging, Germany
               Dennis Schaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
               Hendradi Hardhienata, IPB University, Indonesia

• Distributed optical fiber sensors based on Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering, and sensor networking
• Discrete optical fiber sensors, and sensor array
• Fiber Bragg grating sensors, long period grating sensors, tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors
• Optical fiber interferometric sensors (Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Sagnac interferometer, etc.)
• Optical fiber laser sensors
• Specialty fiber optic sensors, Photonic crystal fiber sensors
• Surface pasmon resonance fiber sensors
• Micro/nanofiber sensors
• Microwave photonics sensors
• Silicon photonics sensors
• Optical sensors for chemical, environmental, biological and medical applications
• Optical sensors for structural health monitoring, security, defense and industrial applications
• New elements (fibers, devices and subsystems), effects (e.g., plasmonics), technologies (including nanophotonics), materials (e.g., meta- and structured-materials) and signal processing (e.g., machine learning) for photonic sensing