university Archives - European Conference on Integrated Optics

24/09/202324/09/2023

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).

09/03/202210/03/2022

Integrated THz-photonics transceivers by all-dielectric phonon-polariton nonlinear nanoantennas

A presentation by invited speaker Costantino De Angelis, Professor at University of Brescia, Italy. He received the Master degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph. D. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Padova in 1989 and 1993, respectively. In 1998 he has been appointed Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the University of Brescia.

01/03/202201/03/2022

Quantum photonics based on nonlinear integrated optics

is the title of the presentation by invited speaker Christine Silberhorn, Professor, Paderborn University, Germany. The IQO group develops novel optical devices and methods for possible future applications in quantum information processing, quantum communication and for fundamental quantum experiments. Exploiting the potential of integrated optical devices enables on the one hand the realization of compact, miniaturized and rugged quantum lights sources and converters.

21/02/202221/02/2022

Monolithic III-V-on-SOI integrated photonics by selective MOCVD

A presentation by Invited speaker Kei May Lau, Chair Professor, Hongkong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Lau is a professor of electronic and computer engineering and founding director of the Photonics Technology Center at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She established the Photonics Technology Center for R&D efforts in wide-gap semiconductor materials and devices. She became a Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST in July 2005.

09/02/202209/02/2022

Rethinking Sensing – Developing Next Generation Camera Technology

Is the title of the presentation by invited speaker Peter Banzer, University of Graz, Austria. He is an experimental physicist by training and heads the group ‘Optics of Nano and Quantum Materials’ at the University of Graz. Together with his team he is studying the interactions of structured light and structured matter at nanoscale dimensions. Engineered light fields are an intriguing playground paving the way for the exploration of novel fundamental effects and phenomena as well as versatile applications in the field of nanometrology, sensing, imaging and beyond.

31/01/202231/01/2022

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.

26/01/202226/01/2022

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.

17/01/202218/01/2022

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.