Integrated and nonlinear photonics in thin film lithium niobate

An invited speaker presentation by Professor Katia Gallo, head of the Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics group at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology. Her activity spans theory, technology and experiments in nonlinear photonic crystals and integrated devices. She also leads the Quantum Communication program of the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology and the National Quantum Communication Infrastructure in Sweden.

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Professor Wolfgang Freude is member of the Organising Committee for ECIO 2024

Wolfgang Freude received the Dipl.­Ing. (M.S.E.E.) and the Dr.­Ing. (Ph.D.E.E.) degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1969 and 1975 from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is Professor at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics and a Distinguished Senior Fellow, both at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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Recent advances in silicon integrated photonics for high-bandwidth and energy-efficient optical interconnects

presented by invited speaker Haisheng Rong, Sr. Principal Engineer, R&D Manager, Intel. Haisheng Rong (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently a Senior Principal Engineer with Intel Labs. He has made numerous contributions to the development and commercialization of silicon photonics technology with Intel.

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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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