European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2026
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SC 1: Novel fibres, fibre devices and amplifiers
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Francesco Poletti | University of Southampton | Hollow Core Fibres: from visionary concept to multi-problem solution |
| Aleksandr Donodin | Aston | Optical Amplification in the S-band and Beyond: From Materials and Mechanisms to Practical Deployment |
| Nicolas Fontaine | Nokia Bell Labs | Rayleigh Speckle backscatter measurements of hollow core fiber |
| Dong Wang | China Mobile Research Institute | Field Deployment Practice, Key Challenges, and Standardization Outlook of Hollow-Core Fibers and Transmission Systems |
| Chigo Okonkwo | Tue | Space Division Multiplexing for Ultra High Capacity Communications |
SC 2: Discrete photonic devices and technologies
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Keren Bergman | Columbia University | Reconfigurable Integrated Photonics for Massively Scaling AI Systems |
| Sonia Garcia Blanco | Aluvia Photonics | Rare-earth ion doped on-chip amplifiers in the Al2O3 platform |
| Matthew Peters | Lumentum | Performance , Reliability and Manufacturability of 1060nm VCSEL Arrays for AI Datacenter Scale-Up |
| Molly Piels | Open Light | Heterogeneously integrated lasers and EAMs |
| Tobias J. Kippenberg | EPFL | Thin film Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for next generation high speed communications and lasers |
SC 3: Photonic integrated circuits, assemblies and packaging
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Kaoutar Benyahya | Microsoft | (To be announced) |
| Daniel Kuchta | Nvidia | Progress of High-speed VCSELs and VCSEL-based Co-Packaging for Short Reach Communications |
| Frederic Boeuf | STM Microelectronics | Advanced Industrial Silicon Photonics Platform on 300mm wafer for Optical Interconnect and Beyond |
| Lorenzo Pavesi | University of Trento | Microring Resonators as Neuromorphic Primitives for Optical Computing: Spiking Networks, Complex Perceptrons, and Photonic Preprocessing |
| Liangjun Lu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Heterogeneous Photonic Integration for High-Performance Communication and Computing |
SC 4: Signal processing for optical communication and sensing
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hussam Batshon | Nokia | Advances in High-Spectral-Efficiency Formats: Modulation and Coding |
| Dario Piroli | Politecnico Torino | Digital Signal Processing for Longitudinal Power Monitoring and Nonlinear Interference Estimation |
| Andre Sandmann | Andra | Enhancing Telecommunications Network Availability through Infrastructure Protection with High-Spatial-Resolution Sensing |
| Yikai Su | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Direct detection with high electrical spectral efficiency |
| Benedikt Geiger | KIT | Modeling and Mitigation of Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise |
SC 5: Optical transmission systems
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Pascal Pecci | META | Technologies and Challenges for beyond Petabit Submarine Cable |
| Yang Hong | Microsoft | Hollow-Core Fiber Transmission Systems: From Metro to Long-Haul Applications |
| Shimpei Shimizu | NTT | Enabling technologies for long-haul ultra-wideband transmission utilizing extremely long wavelengths |
| Yuta Wakayama | KDDI | Scalable, High-Capacity Optical Transmission for AI Data Centre Networks |
| Fred Buchali | Nokia | Challenges of Terabit Rate Transmission Systems |
SC 6: Core and metro networks
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Patricia Layec | Nokia | Joint communication and multimodal sensing: opportunities and challenges |
| Lena Wosinka | Chalmers | Trade-offs of AI-based optical performance monitoring and sensing techniques |
| Periklis Petropoulos | University of Southampton | New opportunities in optical networks enabled by hollow-core fibres |
| Rentao Gu | Beijing University of Post | Intelligent Empowerment of Optical-Computation Synergy: Signal Processing and Resource Management for Multi-Band Optical Networks |
| Toru Manu | NTT | Automated Performance Optimization for Data Center Exchange over Open Optical Networks: Challenges and Future Perspectives |
SC 7: Optical networks for access, mobile X-haul, in-building, and intra-datacentre interconnects
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jochen Maes | Nokia | Sensing in PON – techniques, use cases and the role of AI |
| Daniel Perez | Ipronics | Programmable silicon photonics switches in AI data centers |
| John D'Ambrosia | Huawei | Accelerating the Terabit Breakthrough: Defining the Future of Ultra-High-Speed Ethernet |
| Ivan Cano | Huawei | Research directions on Hybrid PON for Very High Speed-PON |
| Fan Xu | Huawei | Optical Access Networks evolution and transformation enabled by AI |
SC 8: Sensing and microwave photonics
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jian Fang | Nec Labs | Advancing Forward-Transmission Fiber Sensing for Precise Event Localization |
| Withawat Withayachumnankul | University of Adelaide | Terahertz Integration for Next-Generation Sensing and Communication Systems |
| Thomas Schneider | Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany | Processing THz signals with GHz electronics |
| Antonio Mecozzi | University of L'Aquila | The Mediterranean as an Earth-Scale Geophysical Sensor: Polarization Sensing on Subsea Fiber Infrastructure |
| Radan Slavik | Southampton | Distributed measurement of hollow core optical fibres |
SC 9: Free-space optics and optical wireless technologies
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jian Wu | MIT (USA) | Satellite to Ground FSO Communication Links enhanced by Mode Diversity Reception and Adaptive Optics |
| Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas | University of Melbourne | Optical Wireless Communications - Progress and Challenges |
| Steve Hranilovic | McMaster University | Perspectives on Optical Satellite Communication Systems - Technology and Applications |
| The Ngoc Dang | Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology | Atmospheric-aware design of FSO-enabled 6G non-terrestrial networks for tropical weather patterns |
| Shota Ishimura | KDDI | Free-space optical communication using photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers |
SC 10: Control and management of optical networks
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Annalisa Morea | Nokia | ROADM and AI: A Perfect Symbiosis for Autonomous Optical Networks |
| Italo Busi | Huawei | TDigital Twin, Agent and Artificial Intelligence towards ION-2030 |
| Bodhisattwa Gangopadhyay | Meta | The Role of Optics in Next-Generation Multi-Gigawatt Datacenters |
| Jiawei Zhang | BUPT | Optical networks for AI: the challenge and optimization for LLM training and inference across datacenters |
| Massimo Tornatore | Politecnico di Milano | Co-LLMs and Optical Networks: A Symbiotic Relationship |
SC 11: Quantum communications, physical layer security and optical quantum technologies
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Ulrik Andersen | DTU | Quantum Advantage with Optical Systems |
| Yunhong Ding | DTU | Thin-film lithium niobate for quantum photonics: perspectives and challenges |
| Mirko Pittaluga | Wavephotonics LTD | Practical quantum communications in deployed optical telecom networks |
| Elizaveta Semenova | Engineering Deterministic Quantum Light Sources at Telecom Wavelengths | |
| Samuele Grandi | ICFO | A quantum internet based on solid-state quantum nodes |
CLEO® Special Session on Emerging Trends in Optics and Photonics
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Roberto Morandotti | INRS Canada | Frequency and time integrated photonics: quantum and neuromorphic applications |
| Carlos Ramos | Paris Saclay | Harnessing nonlinear and optomechanical phenomena in silicon nanostructures |
| Jens Schmid | CNRS Canada | Metamaterial integrated photonics for light coupling, beam steering and spectral filtering |
| Andy Knights | McMaster University | The development of avalanche photodetectors for silicon photonics |
| Joan Ramirez | Nokia | Recent progress on III-V on Si photonic transmitters |
| Camille Bres | EPFL | Sputtered AlN buffer layer for low loss crystalline AlN on sapphire integrated photonic |
| Segolène Olivier | CEA Leti | Photonic integrated circuits on SOI and SiN for quantum communications and quantum computing |
| Scott B. Papp | NIST | Flattop soliton microcombs for low power optical data links |
| Hoe Tan | Australian National University | III-V nanostructures for lasers and quantum emitters |