Silicon photonics neural networks in optical communications

Is the title of the presentation by invited speaker Lorenzo Pavesi, Full professor, Department of Physics, Università di Trento, Italy. s Professor of Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Trento (Italy). Born the 21st of November 1961, he received his PhD in Physics in 1990 at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland). In 1990 he became Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2002 at the University of Trento.

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Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Photonic Circuits

By invited speaker David Marpaung, Professor at Twente University, The Netherlands. He is the head of the Nonlinear Nanophotonics group and the co-chairholder of the Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics chair. David received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2009. From 2009 to 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Twente, working on microwave photonic system integration for optical beamforming.

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Prospects and Applications of photonic neural networks

Is the title of the presentation by invited speaker Paul Prucnal, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associated Faculty in the Princeton Institute of Materials (PRISM), Princeton University. Research in my group, the Lightwave Communications Laboratory, is focused on investigating ultrafast optical techniques with application to communication networks and signal processing. My graduate students and I are working on several exciting and innovative research projects, which benefit from close collaborations with government and industrial research laboratories.

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High performance photonic devices based on photonic crystal bimodal interferometers

A presentation by the invited speaker Jaime Garcia Rupérez, Nanophotonics Technology Center UPV (Spain). The Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC), placed at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) campus, was created on 2005 to become a leading R&D center in nanophotonic science and technology. Our main mission is to place the NTC at the forefront of the knowledge in fundamental nanophotonic science as well as to use this knowledge to build novel materials, devices and systems for a wide range of applications.

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Advances and trends of Si photonics

An invited speaker presentation by Laurent Vivien, CNRC / University Paris Saclay (France). Dr Vivien is a CNRS researcher at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, a joint Laboratory of CNRS and University of Paris Saclay, France. His research activities focus on the development of fundamental concepts and devices in the silicon photonics platform including optoelectronic devices and hybrid photonic integration. Since 2016, he has served as Deputy Director of C2N and Director of the Photonics Department. In 2015, he received the Consolidator European Research Council (ERC) grant on the development of strained silicon photonics. He is an elected Fellow of OSA, EOS and SPIE.

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Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) Milan is sponsor of ECIO 2022

AFR Milan is part of AFR, a leading provider of optical components, designed mainly for telecommunication, fiber laser, data center, autonomous vehicle, fiber sensor and bio-medical equipment applications. 

AFR Milan is dedicated to design, develop and manufacture bulk and Thin Film Lithium Niobate components and modulators. AFR Milan facility, including R&D labs, state of the art wafer fab and module line is situated in San Donato Milanese, Italy. 

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Photonic integration for microwave photonics systems

An invited speaker presentation by Antonella Bogoni, SSSA and Inphotec, Pisa (Italy). Professor at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, is one of the pioneers of the Integrated Research Center for Photonic Networks and Technologies created in Pisa in 2001 by Sant’Anna School and CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications), where currently she is director of the CNIT National Laboratory on Photonic Networks and Technologies-PNTLab.

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Photonic Black-box Modules for Machine Intelligence

An invited speaker presentation by Volker Sorger, George Washington University (USA). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Devices & Intelligent Systems Laboratory at The George Washington University. His research areas include devices & optoelectronics, AI/ML accelerators, mixed-signal ASICs, quantum matter & quantum processors, and cryptography.

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Health and safety issues for ECIO 2022

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The 23rd edition of the European Conference on Integrated Optics will be fully and only in PRESENCE. The conference will not be transmitted online.

We are constantly monitoring the situation, and following government guidelines and recommendations. The safety of our visitors and staff remains our top priority. We will of course continue to track the Health and safety situation and implement any instructions from the government, local authorities and WHO.

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