Invited Speakers

• Anirban Dhar, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India: Graded index active fiber for high power laser application
• Markus Schmidt, IPHT Jena, Germany: Meta-fibers: Merging nanophotonics and fiber optics via 3D nanoprinting for taylored beam manipulation
• Julien Le Gouët, ONERA, France: Influence of core codopants and components on laser properties of high power holmium-doped silica all-fiber lasers
• Ori Henderson Sapir and Darcy Leonard Smith, Uni Adelaide, Australia, Towards diffraction limited output via wavefront shaping in a record peak power, single-frequency, pulsed 1.5 μm multimode fibre amplifier
• Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA: Topological confinement: light guidance beyond cutoff
• Axel Schülzgen, CREOL University of Central Florida, USA: kW-class narrow-linewidth laser delivery through a HCF
• César Jáuregui-Misas, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany: Simplifying multicore fiber laser systems
• Deepak Jain, IIT Delhi, India: Next generation specialty optical fibers for classical and quantum light sources
• Radan Slavík, University of Southampton, United Kingdom: Opportunities for hollow core fibres in quantum technologies
• Miroslav Ježek, Palacký Univ. Olomouc, Czechia: Single-photon polarization sensing using a few-mode-fiber probe for microendoscopic applications and quantum technology
• Kyriacos Kalli, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus: Multi-node quantum key distribution network using existing underground optical fibre infrastructure
• George T. Kanellos, National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Greece: Quantum key distribution over mixed fiber optical links with 16 km aerial segments
• Irina Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Towards all-waveguide ultra-short pulsed lasers and amplifiers for sensing applications
• Tingyun Wang, Key laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, China: Specialty fiber enabled broadband amplifiers