Detailed (scientific) Program

This page is updated only occasionally during the conference. Short-term changes can be found in the more frequently revised Program at a Glance.

Last update: 26/07/2023, 08:30

Sunday, July 16

Registration & Welcome Reception at Bürgerspital Weinstube
17:00 – 20:00 Address: Theaterstraße 19, 97070 Würzburg.
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Monday, July 17

Registration and Workshop Opening at Neubaukirche
09:30 – 10:30 Registration and opening remarks (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Opening Session
10:30 – 11:15 Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo, JPN.
Advances in quantum dot light sources towards practical implementation.
11:15 – 12:00 Dieter Bimberg, CAS Changchun, CHN, and TU Berlin, DEU.
Quantum Dots for Green Quantum Technologies.
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break.

Semiconductor Lasers and Applications I
13:30 – 14:15 Connie Chang-Hasnain, Berxel Photonics, CHN, and UC Berkeley, USA.
The trials and tribulations of commercializing high contrast grating VCSELs.
14:15 – 15:00 Francois Lelarge, Almae Technologies, FRA.
Flexible industrial platform in Europe for Photonic Integrated Circuits.
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break.

VCSELs for Communication
15:30 – 16:15 Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JPN.
VCSEL photonics for communications and 3D sensing.
16:15 – 17:00 Si-Cong Tian, Changchun Institute of Optics, CHN.
Energy-Efficient High-Speed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for Data Communication.
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break.

Photonics and Society I
17:30 – 18:15 Jim Harris, Stanford University, USA.
Advanced solar cells and solar to hydrogen generation.
18:15 – 19:00 Xingde Li, JHU Baltimore, USA.
Probing the Brain Using Low Coherence Light.
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Tuesday, July 18

Registration at Neubaukirche
08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

QD for Communication
09:00 – 09:45 Grzegorz Sęk, Wroclaw University, POL.
Towards practical QD-based single photon sources in the telecom range.
09:45 – 10:30 Johann Peter Reithmaier, University of Kassel, DEU.
Quantum Dot Lasers for Telecom Applications.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

Commercialization of Semiconductor Lasers
11:00 – 11:45 Jun Wang, Everbright Photonics, CHN.
High Pulse Power Semiconductor Lasers for LiDAR.
11:45 – 12:30 Sven Höfling, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Semiconductor quantum dot based quantum technologies.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

Photonics and society II
14:00 – 14:45 Karl Leo, TU Dresden, DEU.
Organic semiconductors - from flexible solar cells to the artificial brain.
14:45 – 15:30 Roman Koerner, TRUMPF Photonic Components GmbH, DEU.
VCSELs for >100Gb/s interconnects.
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break.

Industry talks: Equipment manufactures and career opportunities
16:00 – 16:25 Georg Knebl, ZEISS SMT, DEU.
Discover, create, innovate: The power of science for shaping future technologies @ZEISS.
16:25 – 16:50 Fei Yang, Heidelberg Instruments, DEU.
NanoFrazor Technology: Enabling unique nanooptoelectronics and nanophotonics device fabrication.
16:50 – 17:15 Nicolai Granzow, NKT Photonics, DEU.
White Light Lasers – a Powerful Tool for Material and Nano-Photonics Characterization.
17:15 – 17:40 Ralph Wirth, ams-OSRAM, DEU.
Opto-Electronics Career Opportunities @ams-OSRAM.

Evening program: Industry exhibition with Dinner
17:40 – 20:00 Exhibition of Industry Partners
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Wednesday, July 19

Registration at Neubaukirche
08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Photonic Integrated Circuits I
09:00 – 09:45 Yoshi Nakano, University of Tokyo, JPN.
Semiconductor integrated photonics for smart processing and sensing.
09:45 – 10:30 Siyuan Yu, Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, CHN.
Advanced Photonic Integration Materials and Technologies.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

TBA
11:00 – 11:45 Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JPN.
Membrane laser and photonic integrated circuits on Si using heterogeneous integration.
11:45 – 12:30 Alfred Forchel, JMU Würzburg and Sensalight Photonics, DEU.
Photonic sensing – applied semiconductor physics for a wide range of applications.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

Frequency combs
14:00 – 14:45 Gadi Eisenstein, Technion, ISR.
Optical clock based on Rb and dual comb spectroscopy.
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break.

Social event
15:00 – 18:30 Guided tours: 1) Würzburg Residence or 2) Marienberg Fortress
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Thursday, July 20

Registration at Neubaukirche
08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

New Materials and Spectroscopy I
09:00 – 09:45 Alexey Chernikov, TU Dresden, DEU.
Light-emitting exciton-electron complexes in 2D materials.
09:45 – 10:30 Christian Schneider, University of Oldenburg, DEU.
Controlling excitons in van-der-Waals materials via tunable open cavities.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

New Materials and Spectroscopy II
11:00 – 11:45 Benedikt Schwarz, TU Wien, AUT.
Frequency combs and solitons in cascade lasers.
11:45 – 12:30 Tobias Brixner, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
nano Spectroscopy of optical quasiparticles and their interactions.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

QD for non-classical states of light
14:00 – 14:45 Vladimir Dubrovski, St. Petersburg Academic University, RUS.
Quantum dots in nanowires: synthesis and applications for single photon emitters.
14:45 – 15:30 David Gershoni, Technion, ISR.
Deterministic sources of indistinguishable photons in cluster and graph states.
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break.

Evening program: Poster Pitches und Poster Session with Dinner I
16:00 – 17:00 Poster Pitches, 3 min per presenter
17:00 – 20:00 Poster Session and Dinner
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Friday, July 21

Registration at Neubaukirche
08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Semiconductor Material growth and properties
09:00 – 09:45 Eric Tournié, University of Montpellier, FRA.
Mid-IR lasers epitaxially integrated on Si photonics circuits.
09:45 – 10:30 Kei-May Lau, UST Hong Kong, HKG.
EPI (Electronic Photonic Integration) by EPI (Epitaxy).
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

Polaritons and Nanoelectronic Engineering
11:00 – 11:45 Vladimir Kulakovskii, RAS Chernogolovka, RUS.
Chiral photonic crystal slabs metasurfaces for controlling the polarization and direction of electromagnetic radiation from microcavities and waveguides.
11:45 – 12:30 Gerald Bastard, ENS Paris, FRA.
Asymmetric double barrier electronic cooler.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

Integrated and topological photonics
14:00 – 14:45 Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, SGP.
Broadband Room-Temperature Mid-infrared Detection with Nanoparticles.
14:45 – 15:30 Yidong Huang, Tsinghua University Beijing, CHN.
New perception methods based on photonic and optomechanical crystal.
15:30 – 16:15 Jeff Young, University of British Columbia, CAN.
Components For Integrated Quantum Photonics.

Lab Tours
16:15 – 18:30 Lab Tours
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Saturday, July 22

Excursion: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Mönchsondheim and Iphofen
09:15 – 21:30 Meeting point: Neubaukirche (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)
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Sunday, July 23

Excursion: Ferry trip to the Rococo Garden Veitshöchheim
12:30 – 19:00 Meeting point: Neubaukirche (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Conference Dinner
19:00 – 22:00 Alter Kranen (address: Kranenkai 1, 97070 Würzburg)
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Monday, July 24

08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Semiconductor Lasers and Applications II
09:00 – 10:00 Kenichi Iga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JPN.
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL): Its Birth, Physics, and Industries.
10:00 – 10:45 Vladimir Dyakonov, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Coherent Control of Spin Defects in van der Waals Materials.
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break.

Micro- and Nanodevices I
11:15 – 12:00 Lars Samuelson, SUSTech Shenzhen, CHN and Lund University, SWE.
On challenges & opportunities when LEDs ”go nano”.
12:00 – 12:45 Benito Alen, CSIC Madrid, ESP.
Forward and inverse genetic optimization of semiconductor nanostructures and nanodevices: from antimonide QDs to nano antennas.
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch Break.

Micro- and Nanodevices II
14:15 – 15:00 Bert Hecht, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Electrically-driven organic light-emitting plasmonic nano antennas.
15:00 – 15:45 Markus Sauer, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Molecular Resolution Fluorescence Imaging.
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break.

Evening program: Poster Pitches und Poster Session with Dinner II
16:15 – 17:15 Poster Pitches, 3 min per presenter
17:15 – 20:00 Poster Session and Dinner
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Tuesday, July 25

08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Semiconductor Lasers and Applications II
09:00 – 09:45 Martin Kamp, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Mode-locked lasers for sensing and quantum technology applications.
09:45 – 10:30 Alfredo de Rossi, Thales Research and Technology, FRA.
Nonlinear photonic crystals resonators and applications to quantum photonics.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

Epitaxy and Processing
11:00 – 11:45 André Strittmatter, OVGU Magdeburg, DEU.
Group-III/V Quantum dots - controlling their properties and position through epitaxial growth.
11:45 – 12:30 Sebastian Lourdudoss, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, SWE.
Applications of III-V semi-insulating materials for photonic devices.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

Letters from the editors
14:00 – 14:30 Miranda Vinay, Springer Nature.
All About Publishing in Nature Portfolio Journals: Pro Tips and Tricks.
14:30 – 15:00 Stefan Hildebrandt, Wiley-VCH.
From LPR to QUTE: Open-access publishing in photonics, solid state physics and quantum science at Wiley.
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break.

Social event
15:00 – 18:30 Guided tours: 1) Würzburg Residence or 2) Marienberg Fortress
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Wednesday, July 26

08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Topology and PT Symmetry I
09:00 – 09:45 Boubacar Kanté, UC Berkeley, USA.
The Berkeley Surface Emitting Laser (BerkSEL): a scale-invariant laser?
09:45 – 10:30 Yong-Hoon Cho, KAIST Daejeon, KOR.
Classical and quantum light generation and control with group III-nitride semiconductor nanophotonic structures.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

Topology and PT Symmetry II
11:00 – 11:45 Ronny Thomale, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Theoretical optimization principles of material design for topological insulators.
11:45 – 12:30 Abderrahim Ramdane, Universite Paris-Saclay, FRA.
Electrically injected parity-time symmetric semiconductor lasers.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

Topology and PT Symmetry III
14:00 – 14:45 Hartmut Buhmann, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Topological Physics in HgTe based Quantum Devices.
14:45 – 15:30 Sebastian Klembt, JMU Würzburg, DEU.
Topological photonics and topological lasers with coupled vertical resonators.
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break.

Semiconductor Lasers and Applications III
16:00 – 16:45 Tom Reinecke, NRL Washington, USA.
Acoustic cavities in 2D heterostructures.
16:45 – 17:30 Yong-Hee Lee, KAIST Daejeon, KOR.
Toward the Smallest Possible Laser.
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Thursday, July 27

08:30 – 09:00 Registration (address: Neubaustraße 38, 97070 Würzburg)

Quantum Dots in Nanostructures
09:00 – 09:45 Jean-Michel Gerard, CEA Grenoble, FRA.
Photonic wires for quantum photonics and hybrid optomechanics.
09:45 – 10:30 Stephan Reitzenstein, TU Berlin, DEU.
Single-quantum-dot devices for photonic quantum technologies: Design, deterministic nanofabrication, and application perspective.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break.

2D Materials for Photonic Devices
11:00 – 11:45 Jonathan Finley, TU Munich, DEU.
2D Materials for Quantum Photonics, Sensing and Transduction.
11:45 – 12:30 Gerd Bacher, University Duisburg-Essen, DEU.
2D Materials for Light Emitting and Light Sensing Devices.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break.

New Materials and Spectroscopy III
14:00 – 14:45 Cun-Zheng Ning, Tsinghua University Beijing, CHN.
Monolayer semiconductors: New exciton physics and devices.
14:45 – 15:30 Xiuling Li, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Color Centers SiC: deterministic creation and emission enhancement.
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break.

Closing Session
16:00 – 16:45 Manus Hayne, Lancaster University, GBR.
Cavity-enhanced emission from Type-II GaSb quantum rings for telecoms wavelengths applications.
16:45 – 17:00 Closing Remarks

Award Banquet
18:30– 21:00 Award Banquet at Bürgerspital Weinstube (Address: Theaterstraße 19, 97070 Würzburg).
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