Invited Speakers

Active and adaptive optics - controlling light beams

• Tim Morris, Durham University, UK

Advances in optical metrology and measurements

• Optical instrumentation for in-process monitoring of wire and arc additive manufacturing
  Tom Charrett, Cranfield University, UK

• Application of laser based diagnostics to understand soot formation at technical conditions
  Klaus Peter Geigle, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Astronomical and space instrumentation

• Commissioning the Webb Telescope
  Alistair Glasse, STFC, UK
  
  
• HiPERCAM and GOTO
  Vikram Dhillon, University of Sheffield, UK
  

Biophotonics

• From dental imaging to retinal imaging
  Alistair Bounds, University of St Andrews, UK

• Multispectral and polarization-resolved endoscopic surgical imaging
  Dan Elson, Imperial College London, UK

• Eye as a Window to the Brain: Adaptive Optics Retinal Imaging for Pre-symptomatic Detection of Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Disease
  Karen Hampson, University of Oxford, UK

• From Spectroscopy to Imaging: Raman scattering applications in biology and medicine
  Sumeet Maharajn, University of Southampton, UK

Integrated photonics & photonic systems

• Astrophotonics: Bringing Integrated Photonic Components to the Telescope
  Aline Dinkelaker, Leibniz-Institute fur Astrophysik Potsdam, AIP, Germany
  
  
• All optical photoacoustics and photothermal spectroscopy with hollow microresonators
  Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, IFAC-CNR, Italy

IR and THz photonic technology

• Mid-infrared fibreoptics: current status and future opportunities
  Angela B Seddon, University of Nottingham, UK

Medical applications of light

• In-vivo optical monitoring of cerebral metabolism: from newborn brain injury to dementia
  Gemma Bale, University of Cambridge, UK

• Computational imaging for high-speed 3D microscopy
  Andy Harvey, University of Glasgow, UK

Metamaterials and plasmonics

• Nano-opto-mechanical Nonlinearity in Metamaterials
  Kevin MacDonald, University of Southampton, UK
  
  
• Polarization and pulse manipulation in epsilon-near-zero materials
  Vittorio Aita, Kings College London, UK

Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Microresonators and Beyond

• Localisation by coherent drive and dissipation in photonic lattices
  Alberto Amo, Lille, France

• Optical frequency converters based on whispering gallery resonators made of non-centrosymmetric crystals
  Ingo Breunig, Freiburg, Germany
  
  
• Photonic Crystal Parametric Sources 
  Alexandre Chopin, Universite-Paris Saclay, France
  
  
• Kerr Polarization Controllers and Bound States of Dark and Bright Solitons in Microresonators 
  Pascal Del'Haye, Max Planck, Germany
  
  
• Dual mode microresonators for stable dissipative Kerr soliton operation in SiN and AlN microresonators
  John Donegan, Dublin, Ireland
  
  
• Ronald Holzwarth, Menlo Systems, Germany
  
  
• Nonlinear polaritons in photonic microstructures: from many-body phenomena to single polariton nonlinearity
  Dmitry Krizhanovskii, University of Sheffield, UK
  

• III-V-on-Silicon-Nitride Mode-Locked Lasers
  Bart Kuyken, Ghent, Belgium

• Temporal solitons in coherently driven fiber lasers
  François Leo, Brussels, Belgium    

• Temporal cavity solitons and frequency combs via quantum interference
  Gian-Luca Oppo, Strathclyde, UK   

• Self emerging laser cavity solitons as dominant attractor of a microcomb system
  Alessia Pasquazi, Sussex, UK

• Ultrafast time-delayed effects in exciton-polaritons for photonic binarized and spiking neural networks
  Barbara Piętka, Warsaw, Poland

• Coherence of Exciton-Polaritons in microcavities loaded with atomically thin crystals
  Christian Schneider, University of Oldenburg, Germany

• Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Microcavity-Polariton Condensates
  Marzena Szymanska, University College London, UK   

• Optical parametric generation of fully stabilized mid-infrared frequency combs
  Markku Vainio, Helsinki, Finland

Nanophotonics & nanoscale quantum optics

• Integrating homodyne detection into silicon photonics for quantum technology 
  Jonathan Matthews, University of Bristol, UK
  
  
• Chiroptical harmonic scattering effects
  Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, UK

Nonlinear Photonics

• Nonlinear Optics using Rydberg Excitons 
  Matt Jones, Durham University, UK
  

• Ultrafast nonlinear optics in gas-filled hollow-fibres
  John Travers, Heriot Watt University, UK

Novel and super-resolution microscopy

• Patrycja Brook, Durham University, UK
  
  
• Bending the beam for planar illumination
  Tom Vettenburg, University of Dundee, UK

Optical environmental sensing

• Cavity-enhanced techniques for detection of trace species in high-temperature reacting flows
  Iain Burns, University of Strathclyde, UK

Optical materials for applications in quantum technology

• Emerging rare earth doped crystals for quantum photonics
  Philippe Goldner, ParisTech, France

Optomechanics

• Brillouin optomechanics in whispering-gallery-mode microresonators: From strong coupling to single-phonon-level operations
  Michael Vanner, Imperial College London, UK

Quantum communication

• Quantum communication: challenges and opportunities 
  Veronica Fernandez, CSIC, Spain

Quantum dots, nanocrystals, and low dimensional materials

• Porous nitrides for photonic devices
  Rachel Oliver, University of Cambridge, UK
  

• A low-noise quantum dot in a one-sided microcavity
  Richard Warburton, University of Basel, Switzerland

Quantum information and computation

• Single Photons from a ion-cavity system
  Matthias Keller, University of Sussex, UK

Quantum optics

• Quantum resolution enhancements in discrete imaging and remote sensing
  Gerardo Adesso, University of Nottingham, UK

• Quantum photonics: interference beyond HOM, entanglement, and quantum networks
  Stefanie Barz, University of Stuttgart, Germany

• Efficient spin-photon interfaces with a coherence time beyond 100 microseconds
  Dorian Gangloff, University of Oxford, UK
  
  
• Pioneering platform for integrated quantum memories 
  Margherita Mazzera, Heriot Watt University, UK
  

Quantum thermodynamics and foundations

• Open quantum dynamics and thermodynamics from a global point of view
  Walter T. Strunz, TU Dresden, Germany

Quantum metrology, imaging & sensing

• Transforming seafloor cables into a giant sensor network for Earth monitoring
  Giuseppe Marra, NPL, UK

• Quantum-enhanced interferometry for new physics
  Denis Martynov, University of Birmingham, UK

Trapping and Manipulation

• Opto-fluidic technologies to construct and manipulate synthetic cells 
  Yuval Elani, Imperial College London, UK

Ultrafast and strong light-matter interactions

• Realtime tracking of the electron dynamics in complex molecules
  Francesca Calegari, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Waveguide and fibre optic devices and sensors

• Optical fibre sensors in industry: underpinning a sustainable future
  Ken Grattan, City University of London, UK

• New ways to look through multimode optical fibres
  David Phillips, University of Exeter, UK