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CALL FOR PAPERSSubmit abstracts by 23 October 2017

Strasbourg Convention & Exhibition CentreStrasbourg, France

Conferences22–26 April 2018

Exhibition24–25 April 2018

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Photonics Europe 2018

Europe’s Premier Photonics EventNew LocationNew Topics

Focused on the most promising photonics technologies in EuropePresent your research at the only cross-disciplinary optics and photonics event covering the most significant photonics technologies—from digital optics to quantum technologies to attosecond science. Look for new topics in 2018, including 3D printed optics, photonic glasses, optical biopolymers, and unconventional optical imaging.

Nano- and Quantum SciencesEPE101: Metamaterials (Boardman,

MacDonald, Zayats) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5EPE102: Nanophotonics (Andrews, Nunzi,

Ostendorf, Bain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6EPE103: Advances in Ultrafast CondensedNEW Phase Physics (Schultze, Brabec,

Goulielmakis) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7EPE104: Quantum Technologies

(Shields, Stuhler) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Optical Imaging and SensingEPE105: 3D Printed Optics and AdditiveNEW Photonic Manufacturing

(Herkommer, von Freymann, Flury) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

EPE106: Digital Optics for ImmersiveNEW Displays and Sensors

(Kress, Osten) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10EPE107: Unconventional Optical ImagingNEW (Fournier, Georges, Popescu) . . . . . . .12EPE108: Optical Micro- and Nanometrology

(Gorecki, Osten, Asundi) . . . . . . . . . . .14EPE109: Optics, Photonics and Digital

Technologies for Imaging Applications (Schelkens, Ebrahimi, Cristóbal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

EPE110: Optical Sensing and Detection (Berghmans, Mignani) . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

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Submit abstracts by 23 October 2017

Conferences: 22–26 April 2018 Exhibition: 24–25 April 2018Strasbourg Convention & Exhibition CentreStrasbourg, France

Lasers and Nonlinear OpticsEPE111 Micro-Structured and Specialty

Optical Fibres (Kalli, Mendez, Bunge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

EPE112: Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics (Panajotov, Sciamanna, Michalzik) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

EPE113: Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics:NEW Materials through Applications

(Taccheo, Mackenzie, Ferrari) . . . . . 22EPE114: Nonlinear Optics and its Applications

(Eggleton, Broderick, Peacock) . . . . 24

Applications of Photonic TechnologyEPE115: Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions

for Better Health Care (Popp, Tuchin, Pavone) . . . . . . . . . . . 25

EPE116: Silicon Photonics: from FundamentalNEW Research to Manufacturing (Baets, O’Brien, Vivien) . . . . . . . . . . . 27EPE117: Organic Electronics and Photonics:NEW Fundamentals and Devices

(Reineke, Vandewal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28EPE118: Photonics for Solar Energy Systems

(Wehrspohn, Sprafke) . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Workshops on Emerging TopicsWS201: Neuro-inspired Photonic

Computing Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . 30WS202: Light Shaping Workshop . . . . . . . . . 30

Photonics Innovation Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31European Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Submission of Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Photonics Europe is organized for the fourth time in Strasbourg’s city center conference facility, Strasbourg Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Photonics Europe is the place to be. It brings together different disciplines, technologies, and perspectives from across Europe and around the world. As a participant, you will be among the leaders who are presenting research, developing new contacts, and learning about the latest funding opportunities.

• Photonics Europe is conferences, workshops, seminars and an exhibition that will combine into a dynamic learning environment.

• Photonics Europe has programmes and experts on new business development and bridges the gap between academia and industry.

• Photonics Europe serves as the platform for information updates on the European Union’s new Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020”.

• Photonics Europe features a daily comprehensive “hot topics” session, and will include a unique welcoming reception, daily coffee breaks, plus other technical and social events.

• Photonics Europe presents the Innovation Village: a window on creative products developed by universities and research centers.

• Photonics Europe hosts the European Village: a display on European Research and Innovation Actions, Coordination and Support Actions, and other EC funded initiatives that showcase their consortium as well as their newest breakthroughs.

The casual atmosphere of historical Strasbourg set in the beautiful Region of Alsace provides a backdrop of good food, comfortable facilities and quick and easy transportation. The leadership of Photonics Europe 2018 has selected many of the toughest issues facing optical and photonics technologies today as the basis for their programmes. These current research issues will drive the development of new products for years to come.

Present at Photonics Europe 2018 and be among the leaders!

GENERAL CHAIRS

Plan to Participate

Francis Berghmans Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

Thierry Georges Oxxius (France)

Harald Giessen University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Paul Montgomery University of Strasbourg (France)

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David L. Andrews, Univ. of East Anglia (United Kingdom)

Anand Krishna Asundi, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)

Roel G. Baets, Univ. Gent (Belgium)

Angus J. Bain, Univ. College London (United Kingdom)

Francis Berghmans, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

Peter Bienstman, Univ. Gent (Belgium)

Allan D. Boardman, Univ. of Salford (United Kingdom)

Thomas Brabec, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada)

Neil G. R. Broderick, The Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand)

Christian-Alexander Bunge,Hochschule für Telekommunikation

Leipzig (Germany)Gabriel Cristóbal, Consejo

Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

Benjamin J. Eggleton, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)

Maurizio Ferrari, CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (Italy)

Manuel Flury, Univ. de Strasbourg (France)

Corinne Fournier, Univ. Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne (France)

Marc P. Georges, Ctr. Spatial de Liège

Harald Giessen, University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Christophe Gorecki, FEMTO-ST (France)

Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany)

Alois Herkommer, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany)

Kyriacos Kalli, Cyprus Univ. of Technology (Cyprus)

Bernard C. Kress, Microsoft Corp. (United States)

Kevin F. MacDonald, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

Jacob I. Mackenzie, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering LLC (United States)

Youri Meuret, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Rainer Michalzik, Univ. Ulm (Germany)

Anna G. Mignani, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)

Paul Montgomery, University of Strasbourg (France)

Jean-Michel Nunzi, Queen’s Univ. (Canada)

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Peter O’Brien, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)

Wolfgang Osten, Institut für Technische Optik (Germany)

Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (Germany)

Krassimir Panajotov, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

Francesco Saverio Pavone, European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (Italy)

Anna C. Peacock, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

Gabriel Popescu, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)

Jürgen Popp, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany)

Sebastian Reineke, TU Dresden (Germany)

Peter Schelkens, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

Martin Schultze, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany)

Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupélec (France)

Andrew J. Shields, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. (United Kingdom)

Alexander N. Sprafke, Martin-Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Jürgen Stuhler, TOPTICA Photonics AG (Germany)

Stefano Taccheo, Swansea Univ. (United Kingdom)

Valery V. Tuchin, N.G. Chernyshevsky Saratov State Univ. (Russian Federation)

Koen Vandewal, TU Dresden (Germany)

Laurent Vivien, Ctr. de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (France)

Georg von Freymann, Technische Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (Germany)

Frank Wyrowski, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)

Anatoly V. Zayats, King’s College London (United Kingdom)

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS

As a committed supporter of excellence in student research, SPIE supports Best Student Paper Awards at SPIE conferences across the globe. In addition to cash prizes and award cer-tificates, winners receive SPIE Digital Library downloads and complimentary SPIE Student Membership.

The awards are designed to encourage and acknowledge excellence in oral and poster stu-dent paper presentations. Best student papers will be recognized within each of the Remote Sensing conferences.

In order to be considered for this award, the student must meet the following requirements:• Student must be the presenting author at

the conference and must make their oral presentation as scheduled

• Student must be the leading author of the manuscript

• Papers submitted by graduate and undergraduate students are eligible

• Student must enter the best student paper award by responding to an award announcement e-mail- The best student award announcement will

follow the acceptance notification and will include all details necessary to enter and qualify for the competition

A panel of experts will evaluate the papers, both for quality and content.

See website for SPIE Photonics Europe 2016 Best Student Paper Award Winners.

PHOTONICS EUROPE 2018 PLENARY SPEAKERSDon’t miss these world-class speakers presenting the latest research and promising breakthroughs.

Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique Graduate School (France)

Jeremy J. Baumberg, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Rainer Blatt, Leopold-Franzens-Univ. Innsbruck (Austria)

Frank Koppens, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (Spain)

Anne L’Huillier, Lund Univ. (Sweden)

Jens Limpert, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)


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NANO- AND QUANTUM SCIENCES

Metamaterials (EPE101)Conference Chairs: Allan D. Boardman, Univ. of Salford (United Kingdom); Anatoly V. Zayats, King’s College London (United Kingdom); Kevin F. MacDonald, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

Programme Committee: Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue Univ. (United States); Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Univ. of Southern Denmark (Denmark); Igal Brener, Sandia National Labs. (United States); Tal Ellenbogen, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel); Sébastien Guenneau, Institut Fresnel (France); Maria Kafesaki, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece); Arseniy I. Kuznetsov, A*STAR - Data Storage Institute (Singapore); Uriel Levy, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel); Stefan Linden, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn (Germany); Ferran Martín, Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain); Alejandro Martínez, Univ. Politècnica de València (Spain); Martin W. McCall, Imperial College London (United Kingdom); Igor S. Nefedov, Aalto Univ. School of Chemical Technology (Finland); Yuriy G. Rapoport, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (United Kingdom); Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany); Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue Univ. (United States); Ekaterina F. Shamonina, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Mario Silveirinha; Technical Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal); Philippe Tassin, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden); Sergei Tretyakov, Aalto Univ. School of Science and Technology (Finland); Din Ping Tsai, Research Ctr. for Applied Sciences - Academia Sinica (Taiwan); Nikolay I. Zheludev, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

The metamaterials revolution was initiated near-ly two decades ago, and the field has advanced rapidly – offering flexible control over many wave phenomena, which natural materials can-not provide, and new solutions for all kinds of ap-plications using light. Artificial material designs present a wealth of previously unimaginable functionalities; Ideas map beautifully onto other areas like acoustics; New concepts and applica-tions are proposed on an almost daily basis, and commercialization opportunities are becoming apparent. This conference will bring together the global community of interdisciplinary re-searchers working in this exciting and multi-fac-eted field. A broad family of metamaterials and metasurfaces will be presented, emphasizing the dramatic interactions of advanced, artificial sub-wavelength structures with electromagnetic radiation, together with their many applications.

The conference programme will feature keynote, invited, oral and poster presentations on topics including, but not limited to: • metasurfaces • active, tunable, switchable and reconfigurable

metamaterials • nonlinear metamaterials • hyperbolic metamaterials • plasmonic metamaterials • metamaterials with extreme and near-zero

parameters • new materials for metamaterials

• all-dielectric metamaterials • quantum and superconducting metamaterials • chiral and bianisotropic metamaterials • light generation, gain, compensation of losses • transformation optics with metamaterials • sub-wavelength concentration of light and

imaging • waveguide integration, metadevices and

metamaterial-based photonic systems • multiphysics and acoustic metamaterials with

electromagnetic analogues • novel effects in metamaterials and

metasurfaces (PT-symmetry, topological insulators)

• sensors, light-harvesting, bio-photonic, and other applications

• analytical and numerical modelling of metamaterials

• micro-/nanofabrication and synthesis of metamaterials and metasurfaces.


Nanophotonics (EPE102)Conference Chairs: David L. Andrews, Univ. of East Anglia (United Kingdom); Angus J. Bain, Univ. College London (United Kingdom); Jean-Michel Nunzi, Queen’s Univ. (Canada); Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (Germany)

Programme Committee: Mario Berberan-Santos, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal); Renato Bozio, Univ. degli Studi di Padova (Italy); Mark L. Brongersma, Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials (GLAM) (United States); Céline Fiorini-Debuisschert, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (France); Vincent Ginis, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Theodore Goodson III, Univ. of Michigan (United States); Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich (Switzerland); Yasushi Inouye, Osaka Univ. (Japan); Martti Kauranen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland); Arseniy I. Kuznetsov, A*STAR - Data Storage Institute (Singapore); Francois Lagugné-Labarthet, The Univ. of Western Ontario (Canada); Christoph Lienau, Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg (Germany); Robert Lipson, Univ. of Victoria (Canada); Wolfgang Löffler, Leiden Univ. (Netherlands); Raúl J. Martín-Palma, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Spain); Jesper Mork, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark); Manijeh Razeghi, Northwestern Univ. (United States); Anatoly V. Zayats, King’s College London (United Kingdom)

In structures whose optical response is deter-mined by nanoscale features, the character of optical propagation, interaction and measure-ment commonly involves an interplay of struc-tural and electronic, quantum mechanical and quantum optical features, all concisely conveyed by the term ‘nanophotonics’. This distinctive field continues to exhibit a phenomenal rate of growth at both the research and applications level.

It is the purpose in this conference, the seventh of an established series and a major component of Photonics Europe, to address the latest devel-opments in the optics, materials and physics-re-lated aspects of this exciting area, emphasizing principles, systems and mechanisms, and iden-tifying current directions in research and devel-opment. Reporting the cutting-edge technical advances and applications, the conference will cover a broad range of topics in nanophotonics, including its detailed theoretical foundations, mechanisms, optical techniques, characteriza-tion principles, novel fabrication and synthetic methods, calculational and modeling advances, devices, and a full range of applications in fields as diverse as energy, lighting and displays, health and medicine.

Contributed papers are solicited from research-ers, practitioners, users and commercial organi-zations working in these broad areas, especially focusing on the following and related topics: • optical nanofabrication and characterization • nanoscale optical transmission, reflection and

scattering • plasmonics and surface nanostructure • quantum optics, photon statistics and

coherence

• nano-optical cavities and waveguides • nanoplasmonic sensors and nanoparticle

reporters • nanomaterials for energy storage and

conversion • quantum confined lasers and laser

components • control of nanoscale optical and electronic

processes • optically driven molecular motors • supramolecular engineering of electron and

energy transfer • quantum optical computing and informatics • photoactive arrays, materials and devices • quantum and nonlinear optics in

nanostructures • near-field optics and evanescent wave

formation • nanomicroscopy and associated imaging

technology • optical tweezers and spanners • nanomanipulation with light • optical lattices and holographic trapping • structured light interactions • photonic propagation in biological

nanostructures • quantum dots; fluorescence labeling and

imaging • polariton propagation and dispersion • functionalized nanoparticles and optical

sensing • light harvesting and frequency conversion • optical antennas and nanoantennas • single molecule optics and photonics • photonic quatum gates.

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Advances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics (EPE103)Conference Chairs: Martin Schultze, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany); Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany); Thomas Brabec, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada)

Programme Committee: Dimitrios Charalambidis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece); Peter Hommelhoff, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany); Gerhard G. Paulus, Helmholtz Institute Jena (Germany); Klaus Reimann, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Germany); Olga Smirnova, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (Germany); Vladislav Yakovlev, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Germany)

This conference focusses on advances in the field of ultrafast condensed matter physics. The ob-jective is to provide a comprehensive overview over ultrafast, light field driven processes af-fecting electronic and early lattice dynamics in condensed phase systems. We aim to update the research and provide a forum for discussion and exchange among all people working or interest-ed in the area. Papers discussing advances in ev-ery aspect of ultrafast condensed matter physics are welcome; we explicitly invite experimental and theoretical contributions. In particular con-tributions in the following areas are encouraged:• high-harmonic-generation from and

attosecond physics in solidsu • ultrafast excitation dynamics • charge transfer & structural dynamics • ultrafast magnetism • electron dynamics in nanosystems • novel tools for ultrafast spectroscopy • ultrafast signal processing with light.

Quantum Technologies (EPE104)Conference Chairs: Jürgen Stuhler, TOPTICA Photonics AG (Germany); Andrew J. Shields, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. (United Kingdom)

Programme Committee: Christoph Becher, Univ. des Saarlandes (Germany); Oliver Benson, Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin (Germany); Rainer Blatt, Leopold-Franzens-Univ. Innsbruck (Austria); Kai Bongs, The Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom); Philippe Bouyer, Institut d’Optique Graduate School LP2N (France), Muquans Bordeaux (France); Michael Jetter, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany); Christian Kurtsiefer, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore); Eugene S. Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute (Denmark); Bruno Sanguinetti, id Quantique SA (Switzerland)

The aim of the Quantum Technologies Confer-ence is to bring together people from industry and academia who are active in this field. We ap-preciate contributions ranging from research on quantum components and systems to industrial development of quantum based products, proto-types and instruments:

The conference programme will consist of oral and poster presentations on topics that include, but are not limited to: • quantum cryptography and communication • quantum simulation and computing • quantum sensing (e.g. based on atoms,

ions, color centers, photons or alternative techniques)

• quantum imaging (e.g. based on entangled or correlated light)

• quantum metrology (e.g. metrology of quantum components/systems, quantum enhanced measurement)

• atomic clocks • quantum components and their applications

(such as single photon sources, entangled light sources, quantum memory, photon detectors, random number generators …)

• quantum technology-based instruments and their applications.

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OPTICAL IMAGING AND SENSING

3D Printed Optics and Additive Photonic Manufacturing (EPE105)Conference Chairs: Alois M. Herkommer, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany); Georg von Freymann, Technische Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany); Manuel Flury, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg (France)

Programme Committee: Klaus Bade, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany); Alain Bosseboeuf, Univ. Paris-Sud 11 (France); Thierry Engel, IREPA LASER (France); François Geiskopf, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg (France); Harald Giessen, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany); Kevin J. Heggarty, Télécom Bretagne (France); Hans Peter Herzig, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Christian Koos, Karlsruher Institute of Technology (Germany); Pierre Renaud, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg (France); Michael Thiel, Nanoscribe GmbH (Germany); Michael Totzeck, Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (Germany); Reinhard Voelkel, SUSS MicroOptics SA (Switzerland); Ricky D. Wildman, The Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

3D printing technologies are revolutionizing today’s fabrication methods, from research prototypes to individualized mass-production. This trend is accelerated by a growing number of available printing materials, including optical materials and metals. Photonics plays a major double role here: first, optical techniques are the key enablers in most additive printers, and sec-ondly, 3D printed micro and nano-optical com-ponents offer whole new applications.

For example, femtosecond two photon-polymer-ization enables manufacturing of optical compo-nents in the sub-micrometer scale, allowing the printing of tiny optical freeform surfaces, meta-surfaces or metamaterials. Such elements are the key for novel printed optical systems, which find applications in miniaturized cameras, sensors, or endoscopes.

Additive manufacturing at such high precision and micro-scale however requires adequate op-tical metrology systems for scanning the origi-nals, or testing the printed results. The printing system has to maintain a high focus quality, accuracy and high power within a large writing volume. Also at the macro scale many innovative technologies in additive fabrication depend on optics and photonics to meet various challeng-es. New fields of activities are being opened, requiring new developments in simulation and materials science. Contributions are therefore also welcome that open new fields for printing optical components in which high precision is either required or where bigger dimensions are also possible.

This conference puts emphasis on techniques that either explore the limits and applications of printed optical components, or push the limits of 3D additive technologies via photonic tech-niques.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

3D PRINTED OPTICS • 3D printing technologies for micro- and

macro-optics • femtosecond laser two- or multiphoton

polymerization • optical design and simulation of printed

optics • novel materials for 3Dprinted optics • alternative techniques for printing optics • printed plasmonics and metasurfaces • printed photonic crystals, metamaterials,

and/or optical antennas • printed fiber optics and interconnects .

ADDITIVE/SUBTRACTIVE 3D PHOTONIC MANUFACTURING • additive fabrication techniques (metallic,

polymers, molding…) • 3D lithography (nano- and micro-scale) • optical systems for additive manufacturing • 3D high-precision metrology systems • laser metal deposition (nano- and micro-

scale) • selective laser melting/sintering (nano- and

micro-scale) • multi-material printing and linked additive

fabrication

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Save the dateABSTRACTS DUE:

23 October 2017

AUTHOR NOTIFICATION:

31 January 2018The contact author will be notified of acceptance by email.

POST-MEETING MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE:

26 March 2018

PLEASE NOTE: Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register, attend the conference, present the paper as scheduled, and submit a (6-page minimum) manuscript for publication in the conference proceedings.

• 3D etching technologies • polymer coatings, conversion to other

materials (Au, Ni, SiO2, Si…) • stereo lithography • mechanical/physical properties of constituent

materials • link between design/graphics program and

machine program.

APPLICATIONS • applications of printed micro- and nano-

optical systems • imaging applications for printed optics • applications 3D printed prototypes in the life

sciences • functional micro- and nano-optics • printed optical elements for lighting and fibers

optics • micro-robotics system with 3D printed

elements • new metamaterials • 3D printing of living tissue • microfluidics and lab-on-chips • photonic chip applications.



Digital Optics for Immersive Displays (DOID18) (EPE106)Conference Chairs: Bernard C. Kress, Microsoft Corp. (United States); Wolfgang Osten, Institut für Technische Optik (Germany); Hagen Stolle, SeeReal Technologies GmbH (Germany)

Programme Committee: Tibor Balogh, Holografika Kft. (Hungary); Christian Bosshard, Ctr. Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (Switzerland); Federico Capasso, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (United States); Jerome Carollo, Google (United States); Arie den Boef, ASML Netherlands B.V. (Netherlands); Andreas Hermerschmidt, HOLOEYE Photonics AG (Germany); Hans Peter Herzig, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Tobias Haist, Institut für Technische Optik (Germany); Marc D. Himel, JENOPTIK Optical Systems, LLC (United States); Hong Hua, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States); Fu-Chung Huang, NVIDIA Corp. (United States); Norbert Kerwien, Carl Zeiss AG (Germany); Lutz Körner, INTERGLASS Technology AG (Switzerland); Byoungho Lee, Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of); Cindy Lee, KHD Ltd. (China); Scott McEldowney, Oculus VR, LLC (United States); Juan C. Miñano, Limbak 4PI S.L. (Spain); Ilmars Osmanis, Lightspace Technologies, SIA (Latvia); Silvania F. Pereira, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Christophe Peroz; Pascal Picart, Univ. du Maine (France); Demetri Psaltis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medizinische Univ. Innsbruck (Austria); Khaled Sarayeddine, Optinvent SA, (France); Robert Stevens, Adlens Ltd (United Kingdom); Hagen Stolle, SeeReal Technologies GmbH (Germany); Adrian Travis, Microsoft Corp. (United States); Reinhard Voelkel, SUSS MicroOptics SA (Switzerland); Angus Wu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (United States)

Take this opportunity to share your research at SPIE Digital Optical Technologies for Immersive Displays-a new conference dedicated to emerging digital trends and perspectives in optics. Come to Strasbourg to meet with users and researchers to discuss the latest developments in the field of dig-ital optics for Immersive Displays. The conference will highlight all digital aspects of optical technol-ogies for immersive displays, in either desktop or wearable forms, from design, fabrication, to inte-gration in systems and final functionality, such as:

a) Design: numerical algorithms to help design novel optics from macroscopic (freeform op-tics) ) to micro and nanoscopic scales (holo-graphics, diffractives, metasurfaces,...).

b) Fabrication: novel wafer scale lithographic techniques and freeform optics fabrication technologies.

c) Functionality: computational techniques to enhance functionality in imaging and display. Digital switching, tuning and reconfiguring to alter optics functionality dynamically.

Such immersive displays find today a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, defense, medical and research fields.

As part of Photonics Europe 2018, this new confer-ence aims at combining all three aspects of digital optics around the following topics: • Optics for wearable immersive displays (AR,

MR and VR). • Optical systems for desktop immersive

displays. • Digital optics for image formation in compact

systems. • Switchable, tunable and digitally

reconfigurable optics for immersive displays. • Optical technologies for head tracking, gaze

tracking and gesture sensing. • Optical technologies for depth mapping

sensing. These are emerging today as hot topics in aca-demia, research institutions and industry, as well as in the venture capital community. Researchers, en-gineers, managers, industry leaders as well as mar-ket analysts are welcome to share their knowledge and experience, and be part of the ongoing digital optics revolution.

Come and experience first-hand hot new consum-er products demoed throughout the Symposium, such as Mixed Reality (Microsoft Hololens) and Virtual Reality (Oculus CV1, HTC Vive and Sony VR) headsets.

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Learn about recent advances in using digital tech-nologies to enhance the performance of optical im-aging and display. Find out about new approaches that push digital principles at the macro-, micro- and nanoscales to the forefront of optics. Exchange new ideas, address your shared concerns, and get access to information not yet published in the men-tioned topical areas. Share your research with other engineers, scientists, researchers, and managers.

Presentations will be permanently archived in the SPIE Digital Library, and made available to others in the international scientific community who seek to learn, make discoveries, and innovate.

We invite you to join your colleagues and share the most recent developments and applications at SPIE Digital Optics for Immersive Displays.

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality individual Hands-On Demo Sessions Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) systems are poised to revolutionize our future; the way we communicate, learn and explore, be productive in our personal and professional lives, shop on-line, play and be entertained. Registration for the Demo Sessions will be available in late January 2017.

DOID18 Student Optical Design Challenge The awards are designed to encourage and ac-knowledge excellence in oral and poster student paper presentations, and bridge the gap between traditional academic optics teaching and tangible industry expectations for today’s immersive dis-play products.

The optical specification lists for these design challenges will be carefully crafted by a group of leading industries in the AR, MR and VR sectors for consumer applications.

The student papers reaching the closest the design goals will be recognized within each of the follow-ing categories:

1) Compact optical combiner design for AR/MR HMD.

2) Foveated optical imaging system design for AR/VR HMD.

3) Vergence-Accomodation Conflict (VAC) mitigation system design for MR HMD.

4) Compact eye gaze tracking system design for AR/VR HMD.

Winners will receive cash prizes and award certificates from industry leaders in the AR, MR and VR fields. Further details will be announced in February 2018



Unconventional Optical Imaging (EPE107)Conference Chairs :Corinne Fournier, Univ. Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne (France); Marc P. Georges, Ctr. Spatial de Liège (Belgium); Gabriel Popescu, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)

Programme Committee: Arun Anand, The Maharaja Sayajirao Univ. of Baroda (India); Matthieu Boffety, Institut d’Optique Graduate School (France); Pierre H. Chavel, Institut d’Optique Graduate School (France); Nicholas Devaney, National Univ. of Ireland, Galway (Ireland); Julien Fade, Institut de Physique de Rennes (France); Mathias Fink, Institut Langevin (France); Sylvain Gioux, Univ. de Strasbourg (France); François Goudail, Institut d’Optique Graduate School (France); Olivier Haeberlé, Univ. de Haute Alsace (France); Giancarlo Pedrini, Institut für Technische Optik (Germany); François Ramaz, Institut Langevin (France); Neus Sabater, Technicolor S.A. (France); Frans Snik, Leiden Observatory (Netherlands); Enrique Tajahuerce, Univ. Jaume I (Spain); Pauline Trouvé, ONERA (France)

In recent years, the field of optical imaging has ex-perienced tremendous technological and concep-tual breakthroughs. Advances in system design and novel approaches to information processing have enabled significant progress in a number of areas including, but not limited to, nanosco-py and superresolution imaging, phase imaging, 3D imaging, light-field imaging, digital hologra-phy, and compressive sensing. This progress has been made possible by the developments in light sources and detectors and the miniaturization and democratization of computing resources. Equally important, progress is driven by cross-disciplinary collaboration between the fields of imaging sci-ence, optical design, and signal/image processing as well as the continuing evolution of photonics components development as evidenced by new sensor technologies, light sources, optical mate-rials and optical elements. Modern imaging makes it necessary to have a comprehensive understand-ing and control of the full scope of disciplines from optical modeling through optical design to digital image processing and analysis. These innovative imaging techniques are finding many new uses ranging from the fundamental aspects of mate-rials science and the biological sciences to down-stream industrial metrology and medical imaging applications.

The area of optical imaging being more than ever at the crossroads of these fields drives the need for a topical conference on novel optical imaging to stimulate scientific interaction between inter-national academic and industrial participants in this innovative imaging domain. Papers from academia, research organizations, industry and government organizations are solicited on the fol-lowing and related topics:

IMAGING• light field/plenoptic imaging • interferometric imaging (including digital

holography) • superresolution techniques and nanoscopy for

imaging • lensless imaging techniques • quantitative phase imaging • tomographic imaging • multicomponent imaging • multimodal imaging and fusion • polarimetric imaging • multispectral imaging • synthetic aperture imaging • imaging through scattering media • nonlinear imaging & advanced microscopy

such as SHG, CARS, and others • extreme optical imaging including the use THz,

X-ray, and gamma radiation in imaging • 3D imaging • co-design optics/processing • compressed sensing for unconventional

imaging • computational imaging • inverse problems in imaging • information processing in unconventional

imaging including algorithms for blind deconvolution, source separation, de-noising, and detection/classification

• machine learning algorithms for unconventional imaging.

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SENSING• wavefront sensing • phase restoration and wavefront

reconstruction • non-contact measurement and optical sensing

in harsh environments • hybrid optical sensors and imagers • advanced image sensors for use in

unconventional imaging methods • advances in materials and material

characterization for sensing and unconventional imaging.

APPLICATIONS• imaging in harsh environments such as

underwater, in hazardous conditions, at high temperature, or in vacuum

• biomedical imaging (cellular scale imaging, cells growth and dynamics, intracellular transport)

• thick tissue imaging • in-vivo imaging • endoscopy • velocimetry • time of flight studies • unconventional imaging as applied to

problems in metrology.



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Optical Micro- and Nanometrology (EPE108)Conference Chairs: Christophe Gorecki, FEMTO-ST (France); Anand Krishna Asundi, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore); Wolfgang Osten, Institut für Technische Optik (Germany)

Programme Committee: Jürgen W. Czarske, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany); Peter J. de Groot, Zygo Corporation (United States); Pietro Ferraro, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (Italy); Cosme Furlong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (United States); Yoshio Hayasaki, Utsunomiya Univ. (Japan); Michal Józwik, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland); Peter H. Lehmann, Univ. Kassel (Germany); Paul C. Montgomery, Univ. de Strasbourg (France); Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (Germany); Yukitoshi Otani, Utsunomiya Univ. (Japan); Heidi Ottevaere, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Nicolas Passilly, FEMTO-ST (France); Christof Pruss, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany); Xiaocong Yuan, Nankai Univ. (China)

Microsystems and particularly MEMS or MOEMS ask integration of heterogeneous technologies including micromechanical components, optics, electronics, sensors and actuators. Since wafer stack of ICs and discrete electronic components are being assembled in the same package with MEMS/MOEMS, microoptical systems and/or oth-er photonic or optoelectronic devices, there is a need of new measurement techniques for char-acterization and testing, operating during the chip-production and for lifetime cycle prediction. Fortunately, optical inspection systems provide an ideal way to validate and verify product qual-ity. Optical probes are non-destructive, non-con-tact diagnostics and particularly appropriate for probing materials destined for use in optoelec-tronic and photonic devices, where the interac-tion of light with the material provides the basis for device operation.

This conference will focus on the application of optical and related measuring techniques in nano- and micro-measurements, reliability study, failure analysis of MEMS/MOEMS and characteri-zation with special emphasis in microelectronics, micromechanical structures and nanostructures. The complete research and development process including modeling, simulation, and implemen-tation and testing shall be demonstrated on dif-ferent examples. Special emphasis is directed to the development of new methods and algorithms into modern sensor systems. The application of these systems close-to-production is of general interest.

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: • wafer-scale metrology • holistic metrology • unification of modeling, simulation and

measurement • interferometry, holography, speckle, Moiré and

grating imaging • classical microscopy and confocal systems for

measurement • optical coherence tomography • scanning electron microscopy and thermal

imaging • near-field scanning microscopy and atomic

force microscopy • nanometric probes and nano-lithography • fiber optic sensors and waveguide devices • ellipsometry and scatterometry • image correlation • laser Doppler vibrometry and micro PIV • electro-optic techniques • Raman spectroscopy • polarimetry and scatterometry • optical phase conjugation • image processing • rigorous modeling and simulation • estimation of uncertainty of measurement • and others.


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WITH APPLICATIONS IN: • shape, contour, diameter, angle and length • temperature, pressure, refractive index and

magnetic fields • micro- and nano topographic inspection • nano-scale measurements and thin films

characterization • near-field optics, fluorescence, local

spectroscopy • sub-wavelength structure inspection • overlay measurement • static and dynamic characterization of MEMS/

MOEMS • metrology of microoptics • investigation of photonic structures and

cavities • local analysis of material properties and

defects including reliability aspects such fracture, fatigue and wear and life cycle predictability

• contact and surface problems • failure analysis including identification of

failure modes and mechanisms • reliability methodology and long term stability

investigation of microstructures, devices and systems

• deformation, displacement, vibration, stress, strain, fatigue and fracture, shock waves analysis

• line width/cd-metrology, defectoscopy • line edge roughness measurement • fluid mechanics and microfluidics • reliability of microsystems • qualification of devices or systems and

environmental testing • packaging and integration or/and interface to

macro world • and others.


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Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications (EPE109)Conference Chairs: Peter Schelkens, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Gabriel Cristóbal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)

Programme Committee: Olivier Aubreton, Univ. de Bourgogne (France); Jan T. Bosiers, Teledyne DALSA (Netherlands); Daping Chu, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. Magdeburg (Germany); Marek Domanski, Univ. of Poznan (Poland); Boris Escalante-Ramírez, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico); Pascuala García-Martínez, Univ. de València (Spain); Laurent Jacques, Univ. Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); Tom R. L. Kimpe, Barco N.V. (Belgium); Tomasz Kozacki, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland); Dragan Kukolj, RT-RK Institute for Computer Based Systems (Serbia); Jukka-Tapani Mäkinen, VTT Technical Research Ctr. of Finland (Finland); Maria S. Millán García-Varela, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); Stuart W. Perry, Canon Information Systems Research (Australia); Pasi Saarikko, Oculus VR, LLC (United States); Martin Schrader, Nokia Research Ctr. (Finland); Lea Skorin-Kapov, Univ. of Zagreb (Croatia); Colin James Richard Sheppard, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore); Athanassios N. Skodras, Univ. of Patras (Greece); Andrew G. Tescher, AGT Associates (United States); Frédéric Truchetet, Univ. de Bourgogne (France); Gerald Zauner, FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH (Austria)

Moore’s law has fostered the steady growth of the field of digital image processing, though compu-tational complexity remains a significant problem for most of the digital image processing applica-tions. At the same time, also research in the field of optical image processing has matured, potentially bypassing the limitations of digital approaches and giving rise to new applications. Additional-ly, from image acquisition perspective the rapid convergence of digital imaging devices is driving a strong industrial growth of photonics technol-ogies. Already, photonics based enablers can be found in a myriad of imaging and visualization applications such as displays and image sensing, illumination systems, and high-performance light engines - all of which have major volume positions in the photonics market. Along with the growing interest for emerging multimedia applications the demand for new photonics enablers is steadily in-creasing, and new technologies are continuously created to meet the needs.

One example is the use of laser sources for cinema projection systems enabling high-dynamic range and high-quality stereoscopic cinema, another the use of advanced optics and display technol-ogy in head mounted displays. In miniaturizing digital cameras new challenges emerge when striving for high performance combined with mass volume production. This requires the design of sophisticated lens elements and new types of imaging optics; optimized image processing pipe-lines; compact high-performance sensors etc. In addition, photonics has enabled fully digital me-

dia, with accompanied growth in image process-ing, in content storage, retrieval and transmission techniques, and in related hardware and software. These new applications all have their specific re-quirements and put new challenges on the optical designs.

The aim of this conference is to create a joint fo-rum for both research and application commu-nities in the area of optics, photonics and digital imaging technologies to share expertise, to solve present-day application bottlenecks and to pro-pose new application areas. Consequently, this conference has a broad scope, ranging from basic and applied research to dissemination of existing knowledge.

The conference sessions will address (but not be limited to) following topics: • image sensors (CCD, CMOS, and others like

OPD arrays) • image acquisition and computational

imaging (image reconstruction, phase image restoration, image fusion, high dynamic range imaging, light-field imaging, point-cloud imaging, holographic imaging, compressive sensing)

• camera optics (imaging lenses, design, flashes, adaptive optics, wafer-level optics, novel lenses, extended depth of focus, etc.)

• camera systems and characterization (system design, testing, metrics, standards, image processing chains)


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• photonics components and enabling technologies for multimedia (micro-optics, lens arrays, filters, optical interconnects, optical storage)

• image transformations (wavelet theory, space theory, geometrical transforms, restoration)

• image analysis (motion estimation, segmentation, object tracking, pattern recognition, classification and machine learning)

• image information management (coding, cryptography, watermarking, storage and retrieval systems, resolution enhancement)

• displays, projectors and applications (augmented and virtual reality glasses, high-dynamic range, stereoscopic, light-field, and holographic visualization)

• optical engines for displays (LED and RGB-laser based engines, holographic modulators)

• display illumination (light guide solutions, micro-optics, design)

• interaction between architectures, systems or devices for optical and digital image processing (includes also bioinspired imaging solutions)

• objective and subjective quality assessment and measurement

• applications (medical, microscopy, surveillance, security, remote sensing, industrial inspection, entertainment)

• standardization.



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Optical Sensing and Detection (EPE110)Conference Chairs: Francis Berghmans, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Anna G. Mignani, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)

Programme Committee: Francesco Baldini, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy); Hartmut Bartelt, Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany); Brian Culshaw, Univ. of Strathclyde (United Kingdom); Thomas Geernaert, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Roger M. Groves, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Jane Hodgkinson, Cranfield Univ. (United Kingdom); Jiri Homola, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic); Leszek Roman Jaroszewicz, Military Univ. of Technology (Poland); Elfed Lewis, Univ. of Limerick (Ireland); Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering LLC (United States); Luc Thevenaz, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Alessandro Tredicucci, NEST (Italy); Moshe Tur, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel); Waclaw Urbanczyk, Wroclaw Univ. of Technology (Poland); Jan Van Roosbroeck, FBGS International (Belgium); David J. Webb, Aston Univ. (United Kingdom); Libo Yuan, Harbin Engineering Univ. (China)

The optical sensing and detection conference will emphasize the principles, characteristics and per-formance of photonic sensor and measurement systems. The former focuses on new and ad-vanced optical- and photo-detector technologies for the range from UV to terahertz, while the latter includes point sensor, distributed sensor, inspec-tion and remote sensing systems based either on guided or free space optics.

The conference welcomes contributions on es-sentially all aspects of optical sensors, including transduction principles, measurand encoding principles, data-processing, user interfacing and field trials. Contributions on materials, compo-nents, architectures, structures, detectors and analyzers for optical sensors are all welcomed. A wide variety of application areas will be consid-ered, including safety & security, manufacturing industry, energy production, oil & gas, mining and extraction, entertainment, robotics, environmen-tal and structural health monitoring, non-destruc-tive evaluation, aerospace, chemical industry, food and drug processing and control, medicine and health.

The objective in bringing these technologies and application fields together is to provide a forum for interchange among researchers and users of the various techniques and to support cross-fer-tilization of ideas which may benefit research and development in future photonic sensing and opti-cal instrumentation systems.

We therefore encourage the research and devel-opment community to submit contributions to the conference in the broad field of optical sensing systems and more particularly on: • detection and transduction materials,

technologies and techniques • technological advances in photodetectors, e.g.

in the field of low wavelength photosensors and terahertz and IR imaging

• components for sensor systems, e;g.: detectors, analyzers, packages, etc.

• optical and electronic signal handling, processing, routing and user interfacing

• data analysis for multi-sensor arrays, multi-component sensing and data fusion

• fibre optic sensors • sensitivity enhancement in optical sensing

techniques such as for example interferometry, spectroscopy, laser ranging

• sensor component, system and network reliability

• applications of optical sensing techniques in the various fields given above

• field trials.


LASERS AND NONLINEAR OPTICS

Micro-Structured and Specialty Optical Fibres (EPE111)Conference Chairs: Kyriacos Kalli, Cyprus Univ. of Technology (Cyprus); Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering LLC (United States); Christian-Alexander Bunge, Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (Germany)

Programme Committee: Jean-Luc Adam, Univ. de Rennes 1 (France); Jean-Louis Auguste, XLIM Institut de Recherche (France); Ole Bang, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark); Neil G. R. Broderick, The Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand); Benoit Cadier, iXFiber SAS (France); Adrian L. Carter, Nufern (United States); Liang Dong, Ctr. for Optical Materials Science + Engineering Technologies (United States); Henry H. Du, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States); Sebastien Fevrier, XLIM Institut de Recherche (France); Jiri Kanka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic); Karl-Friedrich Klein, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (Germany); Jonathan C. Knight, Univ. of Bath (United Kingdom); Michael Komodromos, Frederick Univ. (Cyprus); Walter Margulis, Acreo Swedish ICT AB (Sweden); Pavel Peterka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic); Saeed Rehman, Fibertronix AB (Sweden); Valerio Romano, Bern Univ. of Applied Sciences (Switzerland); Kunimasa Saitoh, Hokkaido Univ. (Japan); Kay Schuster, Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany); Sergei V. Semyonov, Fiber Optics Research Ctr. (Russian Federation); Waclaw Urbanczyk, Wroclaw Univ. of Technology (Poland); David J. Webb, Aston Univ. (United Kingdom); Alexei M. Zheltikov, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. (Russian Federation); Hwa-Yaw Tam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. (Hong Kong, China)

Specialised optical fibres have become essential optical components, designed to control and ma-nipulate light guided within an optical network, enabling selective confinement, routing, disper-sion or filtering to occur directly in the optical domain. Specialised optical fibres can be broadly classified as solid step or gradient index types, liquid core fibres and as photonic crystal or mi-crostructure designs. In the former case, selective material doping of the fibres can afford unique properties that allow for optical amplification or photosensitivity. In the latter case, photonic crys-tal fibre allows for photon propagation in the most intricate of ways with great flexibility; we have far more control over the properties of photonic crystals than we do over the electronic properties of semiconductors. There are three key features that define the development of a specialised fi-bre i) the composition of the host material, ii) the waveguide design and iii) the use of specialised coatings.

This conference aims to provide a forum for sci-entists and engineers - involved with the model-ling, design, fabrication, device integration, and application of photonic crystal, microstructure and other specialty optical fibres - to present and share their latest research and findings. This con-ference will expand on the existing optical fibre in-novations, detailing progress in the areas of fibre

manufacture, devices, and applications that tar-get the fields of optical communications, sensing and spectroscopy; and incorporating modelling of novel fibre geometries.

The conference program will consist of both oral and poster presentations. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

MATERIALS, PROCESSES AND FABRICATION ADVANCESAdvances in speciality and microstructure fibre manufacture based on, silica, chalcogenide and multi-component glasses, rare-earth doped fi-bres, single crystal material fibre and polymer op-tical fibres, as well as new and advanced coating materials.

THEORY AND MODELINGModelling and simulation of linear and nonlinear characteristics of novel optical fibres, including modal analysis, birefringence, polarisation and dispersion properties, confinement and bending losses, evanescent coupling in multi-core fibre and fibre tapers.

TEST AND CHARACTERISATION METHODS Characterisation of optical fibres, e.g. measure-ments of fibre geometry, birefringence, disper-sion, non-linearity and distributed measurements

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OPTICAL COMPONENTS, SENSORS AND DEVICESSpeciality and microstructure fibre-based devic-es and their applications cover a broad spectrum of research areas that can include:• Supercontinuum generation, wavelength

conversion, fibre lasers and amplification, ultrahigh power and ultrashort pulse delivery, optical clocks, pulse shaping, dispersion compensation, microfluidic devices, liquid crystal fibres, and optical transport of microparticles.

• Optical sensors, e.g. chemical and biosensors, vectorial (multicore structures) and birefringent sensors (temperature and pressure), Bragg and long period grating sensors in specialised fibres.

• Near-field microscopy, spectroscopy of gases and liquids.

We also encourage papers on hot topics and fields of commercial interest such as • optical nanowires and subwavelength

diameter fibres • mid-IR and infrared fibres • specialty fibres for biological, chemical and

medical applications • fibres for harsh environments • fibres for use in the aerospace industry • fibres for oil and gas applications • optical fibres in renewable energy

applications. Finally a special session on:• “specialty optical fibres for fiber lasers” • “specialty optical fibres for life sciences,

chemistry and medicine”

Given the recent growing activity and adoption of optical fibers and fiber sensors in the life sci-ences, biology, medical and clinical fields, we en-courage and seek submissions for manuscripts describing new designs and prototypes of spe-cialty optical fibers and associated devices for applications or uses related, but not limited, to the following: • specialty fiber needs and issues in the

biomedical field • materials issues, biocompatibility studies,

new fiber, coating and jacket materials and advances

• catheters for patient monitoring, biopsy sampling, and the like

• fiberoptic-based biological, chemical and medical sensors

• specialty fibers for illumination, laser delivery, photo dynamic therapy (PDT), photo thermal treatments. Power handling and thermal dissipation studies

• UV, VIS , NIR and IR fibers for spectroscopy analysis, chemical sensing and sample excitation

• scanning and measuring probes for optical coherence tomography (OCT), needle imaging, and other surface or tran-endoscopic applications

• imaging bundles, endoscopes and endoscopic tools.

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Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics (EPE112)Conference Chairs: Krassimir Panajotov, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupélec (France); Rainer Michalzik, Univ. Ulm (Germany)

Programme Committee: Erwin A.J.M. Bente, Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands); Dieter Bimberg, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany); Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Labs. (United States); Kent D. Choquette, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States); Tomasz G. Czyszanowski, Lodz Univ. of Technology (Poland); Gadi Eisenstein, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel); Wolfgang E. Elsässer, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany); Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan); Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan); Michael Kneissl, Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany); Anders G. Larsson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden); Fan-Yi Lin, National Tsing Hua Univ. (Taiwan); Cristina Masoller, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); Luke J. Mawst, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (United States); Jesper Mørk, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark); Johann Peter Reithmaier, Univ. Kassel (Germany); Carlo Sirtori, Univ. Paris 7-Denis Diderot (France); Peter M. Smowton, Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom); Anne C. Tropper, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

The conference will be concerned with all types and all aspects of semiconductor lasers. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Fabry-Perot, DFB, DBR laser diodes,

multisegment devices • VCSELs • semiconductor VECSELs (optically or

electrically pumped) • quantum cascade lasers • novel laser structures like micro-, nano-

cavities, photonic crystals • single-photon sources • modulator-integrated lasers • lasers for silicon photonics • epitaxial growth and processing aspects • low-dimensional active regions in

semiconductor lasers (quantum dashes, dots, etc.)

• novel semiconductor laser materials • UV to IR laser emission wavelengths • wavelength tuning, spectral properties • laser emission profile shaping • high power generation, high brightness

emission • laser diode dynamics • high-speed modulation • external feedback, optical injection and

coupled semiconductor lasers

• mode locking • laser diode synchronization • complex semiconductor laser systems • patterns and localized structures in

semiconductor lasers • noise • new phenomena in semiconductor lasers • advanced laser diode integration and system

applications aspects • physics and theory of semiconductor lasers • numerical methods, modeling and simulations • semiconductor optical amplifiers.

Submissions of papers addressing one or more of these items are welcome.



Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications (EPE113)Conference Chairs: Stefano Taccheo, Swansea Univ. (United Kingdom); Jacob I. Mackenzie, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom); Maurizio Ferrari, CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (Italy)

Programme Committee: Rolindes Balda, Univ. del País Vasco (Spain); Patrice Camy, Ctr. de Recherche sur les Ions, les Matériaux et la Photonique (France); Yanne K. K. Chembo, FEMTO-ST (France); Amol Choudhary, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia); Cosimo D’Andrea, Politecnico di Milano (Italy); Miroslav Dramicanin, Univ. of Belgrade (Serbia); Ulrich Hefter, ROFIN-SINAR Laser GmbH (Germany); Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics, Inc. (United States); Udo Klotzbach, Fraunhofer IWS Dresden (Germany); Antti Lassila, MIKES Mittatekniikan keskus (Finland); Antonio Lucianetti, HiLASE Ctr. (Czech Republic); Anna Luiza Lukowiak, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research (Poland); Virginie Nazabal, Univ. de Rennes 1 (France); Nasser N. Peyghambarian, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States); Francesco Prudenzano, Politecnico di Bari (Italy); Alexander Quandt, Univ. of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); Gediminas Račiukaitis, Ctr. for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania); Angela B. Seddon, The Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom); Akira Shirakawa, The Univ. of Electro-Communications (Japan); Irina T. Sorokina, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (Norway)

The scope of the “Fiber Lasers and Glass Photon-ics: Materials through Applications” conference is broad, aiming to promote synergies and support for a multidisciplinary audience interested in be-ing updated both in their own research field and correlated areas. This conference aims to exten-sively cover main scientific and technological ar-eas of Fiber, Crystal and Waveguide Lasers and Photonic Glasses, with particular emphasis on new laser concepts, functional devices structured at the subwavelength scale, and the extension of operating wavelengths into the blue/UV and Mid-infrared regions.

Materials and components sessions aims to cover all type of ordered and disordered inorganic di-electric materials.

In fact, fiber lasers, novel glasses, crystals and de-rived photonic structures are among the forefront enabling technologies to address successfully social-economical challenges that we are facing in many fields going from health care to security, from environmental protection to advanced man-ufacturing.

Emerging applications of lasers in the industrial, medical, and scientific fields will be discussed and contribution from both University, Research Cen-tres and Industrial end users are welcome.

The conference will also present latest results in Industrial Research with focus on the laser indus-try value chain and Special sessions on European Projects are planned, for example in this inaugural year, there will be a focus session on the metrol-ogy and measurement for the photonics industry covered by the PhotIND project and on Mid-Infra-red applications with support of MINERVA proj-ect.

Conference topics are, but not limited to

MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS:• novel Laser and Luminescence Material:

Fabrication and Characterization • novel photonic micro- and nanostructures

including resonant structures • novel glasses, glass-ceramics, composite

inorganic materials and crystals • upconversion/downconversion materials • active fibers and waveguides, Non-linear fibers • materials and components for Mid-infrared

sources • high power components and their properties • theory, modelling and simulation of materials

and processes • metrology for fibers and waveguides.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

FIBERS AND WAVEGUIDE SOURCES:• fiber and waveguide lasers (CW, Raman, and

pulsed) • fiber and waveguide amplifiers (including

Raman) • ultrafast lasers • continuum sources • mid-infrared laser sources • novel visible lasers • theory, modelling and simulation • metrology and testing methods for laser

sources.

APPLICATIONS:• laser-based manufacturing • soft material processing (including laser based

polymer processing) • biomedical Applications and Light-tissue

interaction • environmental applications and structural

monitoring • ultrafast science • theory, modelling and simulation of light-

matter interaction • green photonics • applications of optofunctional and

hyperfrequency devices.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:Learn about the next wave of off-the-shelf pho-tonic components and sources and the value chain for fiber lasers, from pump diodes through to end users.• high-power semiconductor • lenses/optics/fibers/couplers/beam combiners • lasers and beam delivery systems • end user applications.

SPECIAL SESSION:Session dedicated to H2020 and EMPIR Europe-an Projects (submissions must select the “Special Session EU Project” Topic in order to be consid-ered for the Special Session).

SPECIAL SESSION: Special session dedicated to Early Stage Researchers and Women scientists (submissions must select the “Special Session Early Career, Women Scientists” Topic in order to be considered for the Special Session).




Nonlinear Optics and its Applications (EPE114)Conference Chairs: Benjamin J. Eggleton, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia); Neil G. R. Broderick, The Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand); Anna C. Peacock, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

Programme Committee: Fabio Biancalana, Heriot-Watt Univ. (United Kingdom); Camille Brès, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Alex S. Clark, Imperial College London (United Kingdom); Christophe Dorrer, Univ. of Rochester (United States); Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (Spain); Mark Foster, Johns Hopkins Univ. (United States); Goëry Genty, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland); Irina V. Kabakova, Imperial College London (United Kingdom); Mercedeh Khajavikhan, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (United States); Christelle Monat, Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France); Dragomir N. Neshev, The Australian National Univ. (Australia); Francesca Parmigiani, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom); Michelle Y. Sander, Boston Univ. (United States); Dawn T. H. Tan, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design (Singapore)

This conference is focused on the most recent advances in nonlinear optics and its applications. Nonlinear optics has far reaching applications, from ultrafast communication links and supercon-tinuum generation to new quantum technologies and novel microscopy techniques. The objective is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction to all people working in this area or interested in new results. Papers describing advances in every aspect of nonlinear optics and its applications particularly in, but not limited to, the following ar-eas are welcome:

• all-optical processing • ultrafast optical communications • slow light • highly nonlinear and emerging waveguides • plasmonics and metamaterials • ultrafast measurement and pulse

characterization • frequency combs and optical clocks • nonlinear propagation and filamentation • Terahertz/microwave photonics • optical parametric amplifiers and oscillators • generation and applications of optical super-

continuum • nonlinear localization effects and solitons • nonlinear optics for quantum information• ultrafast dynamics and instabilities.


APPLICATIONS OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY

Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care (EPE115)Conference Chairs: Jürgen Popp, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany); Valery V. Tuchin, N.G. Chernyshevsky Saratov State Univ. (Russian Federation); Francesco Saverio Pavone, European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (Italy)

Programme Committee: Peter E. Andersen, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark); Arthur E. T. Chiou, National Yang-Ming Univ. (Taiwan); Kishan Dholakia, Univ. of St. Andrews (United Kingdom); Dror Fixler, Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel); Paul Garside, Univ. of Glasgow (United Kingdom); Sylvain Gioux, Univ. de Strasbourg (France); Kirill V. Larin, Univ. of Houston (United States); Qingming Luo, Britton Chance Ctr. for Biomedical Photonics (China); Thomas G. Mayerhöfer, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany); Vasilis Ntziachristos, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH (Germany); David D. Sampson, The Univ. of Western Australia (Australia); Ernst H. K. Stelzer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt am Main (Germany); Hugo Thienpont, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Siva Umapathy, Indian Institute of Science (India); I. Alex Vitkin, Ontario Cancer Institute (Canada); Gert von Bally, Ctr. for Biomedical Optics and Photonics (Germany); Brian C. Wilson, Princess Margaret Hospital (Canada)

The research area of biophotonics provides novel photonic technologies and tools for medical diag-nosis and therapy. Its solutions for an efficient and affordable health care help to deal with the chal-lenges of aging societies and exploding health care costs. Furthermore, biophotonics research aims for a deeper understanding of the processes within living cells, which is a prerequisite for the improvement of early recognition and targeted treatment of diseases.

The importance of biophotonics is obvious not only from the impressive annual growth rates of the related industries, but also from the significant amount of research funding in this field. The highly interdisciplinary character of this field of research requires an intensive dialogue between scien-tists from the various disciplines in order to align, promote and amplify their efforts. Especially the connection between technology and method de-velopers and the biomedical enduser still needs further improvement as biophotonic solutions can only effectively reach the clinics when they are tailored according to the biomedical needs. To spread and promote this way of thinking is one of the major aims of the conference.

A broader notion of health includes the environ-ment, as well as the quality of food and pharma-ceutical products as its determining factors; thus the conference will cover applications of light in these areas as well.

Contributed papers are solicited concerning, but not limited to, the following areas:

PHOTONICS AND NANOBIOPHOTONICS FOR ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSIS • advanced microscopic and spectroscopic

methods • spectroscopic methods on a cellular and

molecular level • optical biochips and array technology • optical nanoprobes and nanobiosensors • fiber and photonic crystal biomedical

technologies.

NEW PHOTONIC NANOMANIPULATION TOOLS • nano-optical tools and methods for

biophotonics and biomedical optics • light-tissue interaction • optical tweezers and laser catapulting • cell sorting and cell positioning • optical transfection.

BIOMEDICAL OPTICS IN AND TOWARDS CLINICAL ROUTINE • coherence domain optical methods and optical

coherence tomography • diffuse optical methods • fast and ultra-fast imaging methods • in vivo cellular and tissue diagnostics, telepathology • minimally invasive surgery • molecular-guided surgery (includes

fluorescence and endogenous) • photodynamic therapy • skin therapy

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Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care (EPE115 continued)

• ophthalmological applications of light • photoacoustic tomography • neurophotonics.

PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL, FOOD, AND DRUG ANALYSIS • microscopic and spectroscopic methods for

food and drug analysis • optical sensors for hazardous substances in air,

soil, and water • detection and identification of infectious

germs (epidemiology) • optical technologies for process analytics and

quality control • agricultural applications like in animal

epidemics and plant pathogen detection.


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Silicon Photonics: from Fundamental Research to Manufacturing (EPE116)Conference Chairs: Roel G. Baets D.D.S., Univ. Gent (Belgium); Peter O’Brien, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland); Laurent Vivien, Ctr. de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (France)

Programme Committee: Frédéric Boeuf, STMicroelectronics (France); Jean-Marc Fédéli, CEA-LETI (France); José Capmany Francoy, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (Spain); Frederic Y. Gardes, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom); Martijn J. R. Heck, Aarhus Univ. (Denmark); Lorenzo Pavesi, Univ. degli Studi di Trento (Italy); Stefano Pelli, Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” (Italy); Andrew W. Poon, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China); Joyce K. Poon, Univ. of Toronto (Canada); Miloš A. Popović, Boston Univ. (United States); Stefan F. Preble, Rochester Institute of Technology (United States); Jeremy Witzens, RWTH Aachen Univ. (Germany); Dan-Xia Xu, National Research Council Canada (Canada); Koji Yamada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan); Zhiping Zhou, Peking Univ. (China)

These are exciting times for silicon photonics. The industrial supply chain is being established rap-idly, from PIC design tools to PIC manufacturing, through to test and packaging. This enables com-panies across the world to develop competitive products based on silicon photonics. The market is mostly geared towards telecom and datacom transceivers, but other applications are starting to emerge, including the biomedical and sensor domains.

In addition, new opportunities for research with a longer time-frame are emerging. While the stan-dard SOI-based pilot lines and foundries are ca-pable of delivering telecom wavelength function-alities with a combination of passives, high speed modulators and high speed detectors up to a sym-bol rate of about 50 Gbaud, there is an interest in and demand for a wide variety of functionalities beyond the capabilities of the established plat-forms. The list is long but it encompasses amongst others the following challenges:• modulation speeds far beyond 50 GBaud• integration of light sources in the silicon

photonics chips either through heterogeneous approaches such as bonding or transfer printing or through epitaxial approaches

• migration to both shorter (down to visible and even UV) and longer (up to mid-IR and even THz) wavelength ranges, thereby exploring new CMOS-fab compatible materials and processes, with silicon nitride based PICs being a prominent example

• significant reduction of footprint and power consumption of various on-chip functionalities

• entirely novel materials introduced into the silicon eco-system

• groundbreaking physics taking advantage of the nano-scale maturity of silicon technology

• extreme requirements of performance in relation to environmental conditions, such as temperature range, exposure to fluids, including body fluids, high optical power etc.

• new packaging approaches, in particular those with the potential of significant cost reduction

• new circuit-level approaches, in particular with a view of programmable or fault-tolerant system behavior or quantum functionalities

• novel device concepts.

Original theoretical and experimental contribu-tions are solicited from the international academ-ic and industrial silicon photonics community on these subjects. The conference aims to confront established mature approaches with novel re-search achievements, creating an environment of discussion about the future roadmap of silicon photonics: which novel approaches should be in-cluded in standardized platforms and when?

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Organic Electronics and Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices (EPE117)Conference Chairs: Sebastian Reineke, TU Dresden (Germany); Koen Vandewal, TU Dresden (Germany)

Programme Committee: Artem A. Bakulin, Imperial College London (United Kingdom); David Beljonne, Univ. de Mons (Belgium); Vladimir Dyakonov, Julius-Maximilians-Univ. Würzburg (Germany); Malte C. Gather, Univ. of St. Andrews (United Kingdom); Peter Ho, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore); Kristiaan Neyts, Univ. Gent (Belgium); Markus Clark Scharber, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz (Austria); Franky So, North Carolina State Univ. (United States); Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States); He Yan, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China); Eli Zysman-Colman, Univ. of St. Andrews (United Kingdom)

Organic materials are interesting for a myriad of photonic and optoelectronic applications due to their tunability of key electronic and optical prop-erties, their versatility of processing, the softness of the solid films formed, and their potential to allow for non-toxic materials. Currently mono-chrome organic light-emitting diodes are a com-mercial product used in displays, while organic photovoltaics and sensors for low cost, bio, artifi-cial skin, or wearable applications have seen rapid development in de latest years. On the basis of this very versatile material platform, it is expected that many more, innovative application concepts will be discovered and developed.

Hereby does fundamental research on organ-ic electronics and photonics form the backbone for the discovery of new applications, especially, when materials’ properties are evaluated free of pre-determined applications. Moreover, basic ex-perimental and theoretical research on charge, energy and spin transfer processes, organic-or-ganic interfaces and their electronic structure, will provide structure-property relations and progress existing applications.

The focus of this conference will be on the follow-ing topics:• optoelectronic organic devices including light-

emitting diodes, solar cells, photodetectors, sensors, transistors and switches

• organic optical systems: waveguides, energy converters, cavities, light directors

• organic bioelectronics with focus on optics • basic research in organic electronics and

photonics: spectroscopy, charge generation, transport and recombination, spin, charge and electron transfer interfaces, theoretical calculations and modelling, structure-property relations.

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Photonics for Solar Energy Systems (EPE118)Conference Chair: Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (Germany)

Conference Co-Chair: Alexander N. Sprafke, Martin-Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Programme Committee: Benedikt Bläsi, Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (Germany); Christoph J. Brabec, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany); Mark Brongersma, Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials (GLAM) (United States); Ning Dai, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (China); Jung-Ho Lee, Hanyang Univ. (Korea, Republic of); Martin P. Pfeiffer, Heliatek GmbH (Germany)

This conference will be concerned with novel op-tical approaches and concepts for solar energy systems. Developments in optics, nanostructures, materials, and in fabrication technologies such as photonic crystals, plasmonics, quantum dots, rare-earth systems, conjugated polymers, and self-organisation or microreplication are stimu-lating the research on solar energy conversion significantly. Thus, a broad range of innovative optical concepts are under investigation for the application of micro- and nanostructures in solar thermal systems, photovoltaic cells and modules, and for solar hydrogen production.

The scope of this meeting covers all relevant is-sues, such as fundmental physics, new phenome-na, material properties, modeling, device design, fabrication technologies, and characterization. Submissions that address optical effects in nano- and microstructured materials for management of solar radiation are highly welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to: • novel light trapping concepts • nanotextured surfaces of various types • wavelength or angular selective and

antireflective surfaces • switchable coatings • fluorescence collectors • radiation steering incl. concentration • frequency conversion • windows, transparent covers, and receivers • multistage solar radiation conversion • multi-junction solar cells • solar modules, e.g. modules in harsh

environments, solar cell to module <100% • intermediate band gap solar cells • organic, dye inorganic, and hybrid solar cells • optical nanostructures for solar hydrogen • advances in material science for photovoltaic

applications.

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Neuro-inspired Photonic Computing Workshop (WS201)Conference Chairs: Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupélec (France); Peter Bienstman, Univ. Gent (Belgium)

Our increasing needs in information processing cannot be met with current electronic technolo-gies. This statement is receiving a significant au-dience today considering the physical limitation in transistor size and the increase in power con-sumption of electronic devices. The large variety of photonic devices encompassing a large spec-trum of wavelengths and materials and showing a great variety of dynamics over large bandwidths has turned out to be an excellent test-bed for in-novative solutions of information computing. Be-sides the pioneering concepts of photonic switch-ing in the early 1970s - related to the discovery of optical bistability in nonlinear light-matter in-teraction - several new approaches have emerged in recent years that can be related to the more general concept of neuro-inspired photonic com-puting. In particular the progress made in under-standing complex dynamics in networks of optical oscillators, the bifurcations underlying the emer-gence of pulsing dynamics and the related prop-erties of optical chaos, has enabled to address applications in, for example, reservoir computing and deep learning.

This resurgence in photonic information process-ing has seen growing interest, not only in Europe through more and more funded projects (in-cluding recently funded PHRESCO project 2015-2019), but also in the US and in Japan. A number of technology demonstrators have been built in platforms as diverse as fibre systems, InP and SOI.

This workshop aims at bringing together a large community of scientists and engineers working in both the fundamental concepts and technology for developing innovative solutions of photonic computing.

Topics include, but are not limited to:• collective dynamics of photonic networks • ultrafast pulsing dynamics of photonic systems • photonic implementation of reservoir computing • photonic implementation of machine learning • nonlinear dynamics and bifurcations in

photonic systems.

The workshop is open to submissions.

WORKSHOPS ON EMERGING TOPICS

Light Shaping Workshop (WS202)Conference Chairs: Frank Wyrowski, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany); Youri Meuret, KU Leuven (Belgium); John T. Sheridan, Univ. College Dublin (Ireland)

This workshop will provide an overview of various methods of spatial light shaping, covering refrac-tive freeform surfaces, diffractive beam splitters, diffusers, and multichannel array-type compo-nents including lens arrays. Light shaping tech-niques are classified and the strengths and weak-nesses of the different methods are discussed with respect to different applications and light sources. The usage and limitations of ray and physical op-tics for the modeling and design of light shaping systems is considered. Fabrication techniques for light shaping components will be addressed.

The workshop is not open to submissions.


Photonics Innovation Village Innovative researchers who have developed a new product can apply for a complimentary “mini booth” in the Photonics Innovation Village, a spe-cial display area at SPIE Photonics Europe.

The Innovation Village supports and publicises research teams from universities, non-profit insti-tutions, and research centres who are working on new applications and product development. The Innovation Village showcases Europe’s (and the world’s) finest programmes and encourages the transfer of optics/photonics research and tech-nology into new and useful products.

Take advantage of this opportunity for free display space and exposure at Europe’s premier research conference. Best Innovation Award winners will be announced at a ceremony during the event. Learn more online at www.spie.org/pe18-iv.

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European Village Join other consortia showcasing their initiative projects and related prototypes in a special section of the exhibition. Gain visibility at the 7th edition of the European Village, which is accessible to all Pho-tonics Europe attendees, exhibition visitors, press, and other officials. Apply early—space is limited. Learn more online at www.spie.org/pe18-ev.


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