Optics, Photonics & Laser

Assistant Professor in Dept. of Applied Optics and Photonics, the University of Calcutta with 14 years of experience in the field of sensors and optical instrumentation.

Optical instrumentation, sensors, image and signal processing, metrology and non-destructive testing, interferometry, optical coherence tomography, MATLAB

Prof. Ahmet ALTUNCU has completed his Ph.D. degree from the University of Essex in 1998. He is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Kütahya Dumlupınar University in Turkey since 1998. He is also the Director of Photonics Technologies Application and Research Center. His research interests are novel erbium-doped fiber amplifier designs for broadband optical communication systems, wideband wavelength-tunable fiber ring lasers, and fiber optic sensor systems. He has published more than 50 international journal and conference papers on fiber optic-based communication and sensor system applications.

Photonics, Fiber Amplifiers, and Fiber Lasers

KamelSaidiaMohamedDammakaK.Soler-CarracedobInocencio R.Martínb a Laboratoire de Physique Appliquée, Groupe des Matériaux Luminescents, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, Département de Physique, Université de Sfax, BP 1171 Sfax, Tunisia b Departamento de Física, Universidad de La Laguna, Apdo. 456, E-38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain

Optical Imaging and Sensing

Albrecht Lindinger has earned his Ph.D. on helium droplet spectroscopy in Göttingen in the group of Prof. Dr. J.-P. Toennies and took his postdoc term in Berkeley in the group of Prof. Dr. D. Neumark. He received his habilitation in the field of coherent control at the Freie Universität Berlin in the group of Prof. Dr. L. Wöste and is now a lecturer (PD) in the Institute of Experimental Physics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published 91 peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals. His main scientific interests are laser optics, coherent control, and biophotonics.

Polarization shaped laser pulses for selective two-photon excitation of autofluorescent molecules

Ved Nath Jha is a Professor at the Institute of Applied sciences, Mangalayatan University

Optical Technologies

KamelSaidiaMohamedDammakaK.Soler-CarracedobInocencio R.Martínb a Laboratoire de Physique Appliquée, Groupe des Matériaux Luminescents, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, Département de Physique, Université de Sfax, BP 1171 Sfax, Tunisia b Departamento de Física, Universidad de La Laguna, Apdo. 456, E-38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain

Optical Imaging and Sensing

Günter Nimtz has completed his PhD in the year 1969 from Vienna University. He is the Professor of Physics and a consultant of several Companies. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and owns some patents. He was member of the supervisory board of an organic electronic materials company.

Quantum optics, Virtual particles, Photonics for information

Mahmoud Fallahi is a professor in the college of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, in 1988. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1989 and became a member of technical staff as a Research Scientist during 1992-1995. He joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant professor in 1995. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks and published in international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters, patents and invention disclosures. His recent research interests are in high power semiconductor lasers, tunable sources, nonlinear frequency generation, photonic integrated circuits, micro/nanofabrication, and hybrid organic-inorganic components for heterogeneous integration. He has served as Conference Chair and Program Committee member in several international conferences in the field of semiconductor lasers and integrated optics. Since August 2014 he has been with the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director of the photonics program in the ECCS Division of Engineering Directorate. As a Program Director he is promoting and managing translational research programs in the field of optics and photonics.

Field of optics and photonics

Dr. Jing Bai is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) in Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. Dr. Bai’s current research activities focus on nano-photonics, nano-photovoltaics, nonlinear optics, and nanoscale biomedical devices. Her research at UMD has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research, the MN Drive Initiatives, and the Graduate School of University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the American Physics Society (APS).

Dr. Bai’s current research activities focus on nano-photonics, nano-photovoltaics, nonlinear optics, and nanoscale biomedical devices.

Anna Orlova is Professor of the Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science at the ITMO University, Head of international research lab “Magnetically controlled nanosystems for theranostics of oncological and cardiovascular diseases”. Prof. Orlova successfully combines lecture activity with development and research of hybrid nanosystems for theranostics and sensing based on colloidal quantum semiconductor nanocrystals, magnetic nanoparticles, graphene, titanium dioxide nanocrystals, and organic molecules. She graduated with honors from the Engineering Physics Faculty of LITMO Institute (St. Petersburg) in 1997, and then received the scientific degrees of Candidate of Technical Sciences in 2003 and Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2016 from the same institution (now ITMO University). Since 1997 to 2006 she was junior researcher at Vavilov Optical Institute, then returned to her Alma Mater and developed there from research associate to professor (2017).

The research interests of Prof. Orlova’s group are spectroscopy and photophysics of hybrid nanosystems for theranostics and sensing based on semiconductor quantum nanocrystals, magnetic nanoparticles, graphene, titanium dioxide nanocrystals and organic molecules

Dr. Andrei Ivanov is a Head of the Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science at the ITMO University. He received his degree as a Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2007. Dr. Ivanov’s main fields of interest are nano-photonics, nonlinear optics, and laser cooling of solids. His current research activities focus on multiphoton transitions in the bulk and on the surface of the semiconductors of different dimensions; pre-breakdown generation of free carriers in the insulators and semiconductors caused by the ultra-short pulse laser radiation; photon avalanche effect in the semiconductors and heterostructures, and dynamical Stark effect. His research at the ITMO University has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. He is the member of the D. S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

nano-photonics, nonlinear optics, and laser cooling of solids

Bruno Wacogne is a CNRS Research Director at the FEMTO-ST Institute (UMR CNRS 6174) where he is leading the transversal axis Biom’@x concerning Sciences and Technologies for a Translational Medicine. He is also the technological coordinator of the Clinical Investigation Center of Besançon University hospital (INSERM CIC1431) where he is leading the Microsystems and Biological Qualification team. His research interests are micro technologies, optics, translational research, biological qualification and immune-combined medical devices. He is the author or co-author of nearly 200 communications and 10 patents

Micro technologies, optics, translational research, biological qualification and immune-combined medical devices

Ottorino Veneri graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples 'Federico II' in 1996. By the same University in March 2000 he has been awarded his PhD in Electrical Engineering. From 1999 to 2001 he had a research grant provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Naples 'Federico II'. Since 2002 he works as a researcher with the Istituto Motori of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy in Naples. In recent years he has also become Full Professor at the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO. His main fields of interest are the electric drives for transportation systems, electric energy converters, electric energy storage systems, power sources with hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture. He is co-author of 2 book published by Springer, 2 chapters of books and more than 60 papers published in International Journals and in proceedings of conferences. He is reviewer of various International Journals that publish material in the area of energy and power conversion, and technical reviewer of Italian Research and Development Projects. He is director of operative units at Istituto Motori within more than 10 Research National and International Projects.

Energy storage systems, hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture.

I am a CNRS Senior Researcher at the FEMTO-ST research institute in Besançon in France and I am leading the nonlinear photonics group since 2010. I am supervising both theoretical and experimental studies of fundamental nonlinear effects that occur in optical fibers and other tiny optical waveguides (photonic crystal fibers, optical micro and nanofibers, and resonators), with the aim of investigating potential applications to ultrafast signal processing, fiber-based telecommunications, fiber lasers and optical fiber sensors. I have broad expertise in nonlinear fiber optics and related fields and I made scientific achievements in the fields of broadband fiber-based parametric amplification, pulsed and cw-pumped supercontinuum generation, high-power Raman fiber lasers, passive mode-locking of fiber lasers through dissipative four-wave mixing, and Brillouin light scattering in specialty fibers, for which I have been awarded with the Fabry-Gramont Prize from the French Optical Society. I co-authored more than 100 publications in leading scientific journals and as many conference papers I have also been the principle investigator and co-investigator of several projects funded by national and european agencies and industrial partners (Europe H2020-MSCA-ITN, French research minister, ACI and ANR, LABEX Action, Europe Interreg Program, FEDER, Franche-Comté Region, University of Franche-Comté, PRES, CEA, Alcatel-Lucent). I am working closely with a number of industrial and academic collaborators in France and abroad (ULB Bruxelles, EPFL, Lausanne, McGill University, Montreal, University of Auckland, NZ, Max Planck Institute, Erlangen, Germany, Tampere University, University of Maryland, USA,..)

• Investigation of optomechanical interactions and Brillouin scattering in optical nanofibers and microstructured fibers • Development of supercontinuum fiber sources from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared band, • Design and development of broadband fiber optical parametric amplifiers at 1.5 µm and 1 µm, • Design and development of ultrafast fiber lasers using novel nonlinear mode-locking techniques,