ICO-27 Conferences
Solid State, Fiber, and Other Laser Sources
Ultrafast and Nonlinear Phenomena
Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications
High Power, High Energy Lasers
Laser Processing and Innovative Applications
Optical and Photonic Metrology
Quantum Photonics
Quantum Science of Light and Matter
Micro-, Nano-, and Low-Dimensional Photonics
Optical Communication Systems and Networks
Optical Fiber and Waveguide Technologies
Semiconductor Lasers and Optoelectronic Devices
Integrated Photonics
Biophotonics and Applications
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Optical Sensors, Display, and Imaging Systems
Microwave Photonics and Optical Signal Processing
AI in Optics and Photonics
Topics
1Solid State, Fiber, and Other Laser Sources
- Solid-state lasers and amplifiers
- Fiber lasers and waveguide lasers
- Optical frequency comb sources
- Wavelength tuning and conversion techniques for laser sources
- Thermal management strategies and beam quality control
- Novel pump sources and innovative pumping configurations
- Pulse generation and modulation technology
- Light field control technology
- Laser amplitude and frequency stabilization
- Advanced laser crystals, ceramics, and glasses
- Spectroscopic analysis of laser gain media
- Laser characterization and modeling
2Ultrafast and Nonlinear Phenomena
- Ultrafast lasers and amplifiers, ultrafast optical parametric oscillators/amplifiers
- Nonlinear frequency conversion in emerging materials
- Ultrafast pulse control and characterization technologies
- Characterization technologies of ultrafast phenomena
- Nonlinear/ultrafast spectroscopy, imaging and methodology
- Extreme nonlinear optics
- Novel nonlinear processes and strong-field processes
- Novel nonlinear optical materials and devices
- Ultrafast nano-photonics and plasmonics
- Nonlinearity in micro- and nano-photonic structure
- Novel applications of nonlinear optic phenomena
- Nonlinear quantum optics
3Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications
- Infrared and terahertz spectroscopy and imaging
- Infrared and terahertz generation, detection, modulation and propagation
- Materials for infrared and terahertz technology
- Devices and systems for infrared and terahertz technology
- Infrared and terahertz novel phenomena
- Infrared and Terahertz properties of novel materials
- Novel concepts and applications of infrared and terahertz technologies
4High Power, High Energy Lasers
- High-energy and high-power lasers
- Short-pulse and high-peak power lasers
- Front ends, devices, pump sources
- Large aperture optics and novel active optics
- Optical materials
- Frequency conversion
- Thermal problems
- Laser induced damages
5Laser Processing and Innovative Applications
- Fundamentals and modeling of laser-matter interaction
- Ultra-short pulse laser processing
- Surface nano/micro structuring and modification
- Micromachining and nanofabrication
- Synthesis of nanomaterials
- Drilling and cutting
- High power laser processing and additive manufacturing
- Advanced laser processing toward industrial application
- High speed imaging and time resolved measurements in laser processing
- Optics and systems for laser processing
- Al/CPS laser processing
6Optical and Photonic Metrology
- Advanced and Novel Light Sources for Metrology
- Precision Interferometry, Phase Retrieval, and Ellipsometry
- Optical frequency standards, time-frequency dissemination, and transfer
- Length, Displacement, and Multi-Scale Dimensional Metrology
- Optical and photonic spectroscopy for scientific and industrial sensing
- Metasurfaces, Meta-optics, and Integrated Photonic Devices for Sensing and Metrology
- Optical Metrology and Inspection for Industrial Applications
- Uncertainty Evaluation and Metrological Traceability
- Quantum-Enhanced Sensing, Metrology, and Imaging
- Computational, AI-Driven, and Holographic Imaging Systems
- Biophotonics and Medical Optical Metrology
- Optical Metrology for Challenging Environments and Complex Systems
7Quantum Photonics
- Single-photon, entangled-photon, and squeezed light sources
- Cluster, graph, and hypergraph state generation, manipulation, and characterization
- Quantum frequency combs
- Novel integrated quantum photonic platforms
- Novel photonic qubit and qudit concepts
- Nonlinear quantum photonics
- Metrology enables by photon-counting and photon-number resolved measurements
- Quantum-enabled measurements and characterization of nonclassical states
- Quantum frequency conversion and quantum interconnects
8Quantum Science of Light and Matter
- Quantum light-matter interactions, including nonclassical light generation and light-matter entanglement
- Precision measurements and quantum optical metrology, including matter-wave interferometry, quantum optical interferometry, quantum enhanced metrology and sensing
- Novel physics and techniques in laser cooling and trapping, cold molecules, trapped ions, optical lattices, cold collisions, degenerate quantum gases and atom optics
- Quantum simulation and quantum computing with atomic/ionic arrays including Rydberg atomic arrays
- Quantum memories, quantum repeaters and distributed entanglement
- Quantum optomechanics and photon-phonon interactions
- Quantum transduction and frequency conversion with atoms, molecules, quantum dots, superconducting qubits and optomechanical systems
9Micro-, Nano-, and Low-Dimensional Photonics
- Micro/nano-photonic active and passive devices using photonic crystals, surface plasmons, and metamaterials
- High-performance nanolasers, including VCSELs, photonic crystal lasers, plasmonic lasers, and topological lasers
- Optical applications of low-dimensional materials, including classical and quantum light sources
- New optical feedback mechanisms and high-Q resonators, including bound states in the continuum and photonic topological insulator
- High-efficiency nonlinear micro/nano-photonics
- Engineered light-matter interactions, including opto-mechanics and optical trapping
- Complex integrated photonic devices and advanced applications
- Novel nanofabrication techniques and materials
10Optical Communication Systems and Networks
- Fiber-optic communication systems
- WDM, OTDM, SDM, and optical subcarrier-multiplexed technologies
- Free-space and underwater optical communication links and the mitigation of channel effects
- Effects of fiber nonlinearities and other transmission impairments on system performance
- System applications of optical amplifiers and photonic devices
- All-optical processing in devices, subsystems, and networks
- Advanced optical modulation formats, coherent detection, and advanced receivers
- Digital signal processing and error correction techniques for optical systems
- Telecommunications applications of microwave photonics
- Network elements and subsystems for routing and switching
- Architecture, networking, control and management technologies for optical networks
- Optical communications and sensing/display integration
11Optical Fiber and Waveguide Technologies
- Design and fabrication of optical fibers and waveguides
- Micro-structured, photonic bandgap, and specilaty fibers
- Passive waveguide devices, such as filters, multiplexers, etc.
- Optical fiber and waveguide device design using machine learning
- Multimode and multicore fibers and waveguides
- Non-silica and multi-material optical fibers and waveguides
- Propagation, dispersion, and polarization related effects in fibers, waveguides, and free space
- Nonlinear effects, scattering, and propagation related transmission impairments in optical fibers
- Characterization and measurement techniques for fibers and waveguides
- Optical fiber- and waveguide-based sensors
12Semiconductor Lasers and Optoelectronic Devices
- Tunable narrow-linewidth semiconductor Lasers
- Vertical cavity surface emission lasers
- Quantum dots and quantum cascade lasers
- Wide-gap semiconductor materials and related lasers
- Mode locked and semiconductor laser arrays
- On-chip integrated semiconductor lasers
- Nanolasers
- Nonlinear dynamics for semiconductor lasers
- LEDs and semiconductor optical amplifiers
- Photodetectors
- Modulators and switches
- Comb sources and nonlinear optical devices
- Passive devices including filters, multiplexers, and MEMS
- Quantum photonic devices
- Sensors for biomedical, structural, metrology, distance
- Heterogeneous and hybrid photonic integration
- Photonic-electronic co-integration, co-design and co-simulation
- Optoelectronic device testing and reliability
- Si based 2D materials modulator and detector
- High gain waveguide amplifier
13Integrated Photonics
- Active devices: on-chip lasers, modulators, amplifiers, detectors
- Passive devices: filters, (de)multiplexers, couplers, resonators
- Monolithic and hybrid photonic integration
- Photonic fabrication processes
- Emerging materials and platforms for integrated photonics
- Integrated photonic packaging and interconnects:
- Photonic-electronic co-integration
- Optoelectronic device testing and reliability
- Nonlinear integrated photonics devices
- Quantum photonic devices
- Waveguide comb sources
- Photonic communications and interconnect
- Photonics for lidar and free-space optics
- Photonic spectrometer and sensors
- Microwave photonics
- Programmable and reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits
- Photonic computing and neural network
14Biophotonics and Applications
- Light and tissue interactions
- Optical microscopy
- Optical tomography and diffused optics
- Neurophotonics
- Nanobiophotonics
- Clinical & Translational Biophotonics
15Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
- Fundamental meta-optics
- Novel physics for plasmonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, such as parity-time symmetric and non-Hermitian photonics.
- Novel plasmonics and metamaterial systems
- Plasmonic enhanced phenomena
- Novel applications, such as opto-mechanics, optical trapping, and wavefront shaping.
- Light manipulation with metamaterials and metasurfacs
- Novel fabrication techniques and materials for metamaterials and metasurfaces
- Ultrafast, nonlinear, and active metamaterials and metasurfaces
- Quantum and topological metamaterials and metasurfaces
- Biological / chemical sensing and spectroscopy using plasmonics and metamaterials
- Near-field examination and other characterization techniques
- Time-varying photonics with plasmonics and metamaterials
- Active, tunable, reconfigurable plasmonics and metamaterials
- Plasmonics and metamaterials for energy
16Optical Sensors, Display, and Imaging Systems
- Advances in Microscopy and Biomedical Imaging
- 3D sensing and imaging technologies
- Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
- Optical Metrology and Topography
- Advances in Astronomical Imaging
- Digital Holography and Quantitative Phase Imaging
- 3D display and visualization technologies
- Multimodel sensing and imaging
- Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral imaging
- Novel Optical Sensors and Display
- Deep optics/Artificial intelligence in imaging and display
- Emerging Applications of Imaging, Display and Sensing Technologies
17Microwave Photonics and Optical Signal Processing
- Microwave photonic devices and subsystems
- Photonic computing, programmable and neuromorphic photonics
- High-frequency systems and applications using microwave, millimeter and Terahertz photonics
- Microwave photonic or opto-electronic signal processing
- Nonlinear optics and photonics
- Optical X-haul systems for advanced wireless communications
- Integrated microwave photonics and photonic integrated circuit
- Optical-wireless subsystems for non-telecom applications such as remote sensing and lidar
- Radio-over-fiber (RoF) subsystems and systems
- Fiber optic sensing
- Quantum Information Science
- Free space optical communication and visual light communication systems
- Microwave photonic measurement technology and applications
18AI in Optics and Photonics
- Optical computing platforms
- Photonic artificial intelligence: photonic neural network /devices / systems
- Artificial intelligence/machine learning for imaging, display, sensing and spectroscopy
- Computational imaging and machine learning
- Inverse design and machine learning for metaoptics
- Machine learning techniques for optical/photonic simulation and optimization
- Computational optics and machine learning