Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Thursday, 28/Aug/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
TOM Applications S7: Applications of Optics and Photonics
Location: Collegezaal A
Chair: M.Teresa Flores-Arias, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Sensing applications based on all-optical excitation and interrogations of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering

Martina Delgado Pinar

University of Valencia, Spain



9:00am - 9:15am

Analysing the applicability of twisted nematic liquid crystals in non-classical Mueller polarimetry systems

Monika Salamaga, Władysław Artur Woźniak

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland



9:15am - 9:30am

A non-invasive multimodal approach to understand plastic degradation in design objects

Sabrina Samela1, Paulina Guzman Garcia Lascurain1, Alessia Di Benedetto1, Luca Andena2, Irene Bargagli3, Francesca Rosi3, Daniela Comelli1

1: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy; 2: Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy; 3: Istituto di Science e Tecnologie Chimiche “G. Natta” (CNR-SCITEC), Via Elce di Sotto 8, 016280, Perugia, Italy



9:30am - 9:45am

Investigations into a free-form grinding process chain at the example of a beam shaping element

Sebastian Henkel, Marcel Binder, Jens Bliedtner, Aliaksei Kobylinskiy, Robert Brunner

Ernst-Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany



9:45am - 10:00am

Quantum walk realization with tunable dichroic liquid crystal metasurface

Paola Savarese1, Sarvesh Bansal1, Maria Gorizia Ammendola1,2, Francesco Di Colandrea1, Lorenzo Amato3,4, Raouf Barboza5, Bruno Piccirillo1, Lorenzo Marrucci1,6, Filippo Filippo Cardano1

1: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.; 2: Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Via Mezzocannone, 4, 80138 Napoli, Italy; 3: Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.; 4: Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.; 5: Dipartimento di Scienze e Ingegneria della Materia, dell’Ambiente ed Urbanistica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.; 6: CNR-ISASI, Institute of Applied Science and Intelligent Systems, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy.

TOM NanoPhot S5: Nanophotonics
Location: Collegezaal B
Chair: Nandini Bhattacharya, TU Delft, Netherlands, The
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Ultrafast wavefront shaping for dynamic complex media

Serge Meimon

ONERA, France



9:00am - 9:15am

Phasefronts as surfaces of constant vertex time

Julius Muschaweck1,2, Willem L. Vos1

1: Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2: JMO GmbH, Germany



9:15am - 9:30am

Robust meta-surface designs for ultra-high reflectivity in precision interferometry

Christian Kranhold1, Mika Gaedtke2, Markus Walther1, Falk Eilenberger1,3, Stefanie Kroker2,4, Thomas Siefke1

1: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; 2: TU Braunschweig, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Germany; 4: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany



9:30am - 9:45am

Optical detection of single sub-15 nm objects using elastic scattering strong coupling

MohammadReza Aghdaee, Oluwafemi S. Ojambati

University of Twente, The Netherlands



9:45am - 10:00am

Topologically Protected Polaritonic Bound States in the Continuum

Harsh Gupta

Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

TOM Adaptive S2: Adaptive and Freeform Optics
Location: Collegezaal D
Chair: Stefan Bäumer, TNO, Netherlands, The
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

AI – Assisted Optical Design: A New Era

Simon Thibault

University Laval, Canada



9:00am - 9:15am

Designing off-axis augmented reality display systems based on freeform holographic optical elements

Tong Yang, Yongdong Wang, Xin Lyu, Dewen Cheng, Yongtian Wang

Beijing Institute of Technology, China



9:15am - 9:30am

Imaging optical design based on inverse methods

Sanjana Verma1, Koondanibha Mitra1, Lisa Kusch1, Martijn J.H. Anthonissen1, Jan H.M. ten Thije Boonkkamp1, Wilbert L. IJzerman2,1

1: Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 2: Signify Research, High Tech Campus 7, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands



9:30am - 9:45am

Constrained optimization of a zoom lens with CMA-ES algorithm

Tristan Marty1,2, Sébastien Héron1, Yann Semet1

1: Thales Research and Technology, France; 2: Inria and École Polytechnique



9:45am - 10:00am

All-Optical Convolution Enabled by Photochromic Media

Alessandro Bile1, Mario Bragaglia2, Francesca Nanni2, Eugenio Fazio1

1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Enterprise Engineering “Mario Lucertini”, University of Rome Tor Vergata

FS Complex S1: Optics with Complex Wavefronts
Location: Commissiekamer 2
Chair: Allard Mosk, Utrecht University, Netherlands, The
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Optical single-pixel sensing for Nonlinear Ising Machines

Luana Olivieri, Andrew R. Cooper, Luke Peters, Vittorio Cecconi, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, Juan S. Totero Gongora

Loughborough University, United Kingdom



9:00am - 9:30am
INVITED

Integrated or random nonlinear optical generator for machine learning

Andrea Morandi, Luis Mickeler, Rachel Grange

ETH Zurich, Switzerland



9:30am - 10:00am
INVITED

Controlling photon pairs in complex media : from circuits to machine learning

Sylvain Gigan

Sorbonne University, France

TOM Ultrafast S2: Ultrafast Phenomena
Location: Commissiekamer 3
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Femtosecond Fieldoscopy for sensitive label-free spectro-microscopy

Hanieh Fattahi

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany



9:00am - 9:15am

Ultrafast imaging below the diffraction limit with high harmonic deactivation microscopy

Tanya W.P. van Horen1, Kevin Murzyn1, Pieter J. van Essen1, Zhonghui Nie1, Leo Guery1, Peter M. Kraus1,2

1: Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, Science Park 106, 1098XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: LaserLaB, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1100, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands



9:15am - 9:30am

Solid-state harmonic generation: broadband PI-FROSt characterization and driving mechanisms

Pierre Béjot1, Bálint Kiss2, Rajaram Shrestha2, Levente Àbrók2, Zoltán Kis2, Katalin Pirisi2, Balázs Bagó2, Olivier Faucher1, Franck Billard1, Eric Cormier2,3, Edouard Hertz1

1: ICB, UMR CNRS 6303 - Université Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, 21078, France; 2: ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Dugonics tér 13, Szeged, 6720, Hungary; 3: LP2N, UMR 5298, CNRS-IOGS-Université Bordeaux, Talence, 33400, France



9:30am - 9:45am

Spatial polarization gating of high-harmonic generation in solids

Pieter J. van Essen1, Brian de Keijzer1, Tanya van Horen1, Eduardo B. Molinero2, Álvaro Jiménez Galán2,3, Rui E.F. Silva2,3, Peter M. Kraus1,4

1: Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, Science Park 106, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICMM-CSIC), E-28049 Madrid, Spain; 3: Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Strasse 2A, D-12489 Berlin, Germany; 4: Department of Physics and Astronomy, and LaserLaB, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

TOM Nonlinear S4: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Location: Hasseltzaal
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Optical nonlinearities of exciton-polaritons in 2D semiconductors

Dario Ballarini

CNR-NANOTEC, Italy



9:00am - 9:15am

High-dimensional entanglement and topological protection in nonlinear waveguide arrays

Zecchetto Alessandro1, Arnault Raymond1, Jean-René Coudevylle2, Martina Morassi2, Aristide Lemaître2, Fabrice Raineri3, Maria Amanti1, Sara Ducci1, Florent Baboux1

1: Université Paris Cité, CNRS, MPQ, Paris, France; 2: Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, C2N, Palaiseau, France; 3: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, InPhyNi, Nice, France



9:15am - 9:30am

Highly efficient nonlinear optical frequency converters on lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI)

Chenyu Wang, Mengwen Chen, Yuchen Liu, Xiao-Hui Tian, Kunpeng Jia, Yong Zhang, Shi-Ning Zhu, Zhenda Xie

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China



9:30am - 9:45am

Fiber Characterization for Single-Photon Frequency Conversion Applications

Clélia Deroo-Blanquart1, Vincent Pecheur1, Stéphane Clemmen1,2,3

1: OPERA-photonics, Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles, Brussels; 2: Photonics Research Group, Ghent University-imec, Ghent; 3: Laboratoire d’information Quantique, ULB, Faculté des sciences, Brussels



9:45am - 10:00am

Self-Organized Optical Bistability

Nassim Oumessoud, Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez

AMOLF, Netherlands, The

10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am
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12:00pm
TOM Applications S8: Applications of Optics and Photonics
Location: Collegezaal A
Chair: Matthieu Roussey, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
 
10:30am - 11:00am
INVITED

to be announced

Daoxin Dai

Zhejiang University, China, People's Republic of



11:00am - 11:15am

Exploring and evaluating extremely efficient designs for filter-based spectral modules

Aliaksei Kobylinskiy1,2, Sebastian Henkel1, Marcel Binder1, Xavier Uwurukundo1, Lukas Werner1,2, Hartmut Hillmer2, Jens Bliedtner1, Robert Brunner1,3

1: University of Applied Sciences Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, 07745 Jena, Germany; 2: Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics (INA) and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), Albert-Einstein-Straße 7, 07745 Jena, Germany



11:15am - 11:30am

Safe and effective UVB module for integration in office luminaires to support Vitamin D production

Annemieke Wondergem-de Best, Grigory Onushkin, Rémy Broersma

Signify, Netherlands, The



11:30am - 11:45am

Infrared Thermography of Cement Mortar with Phase Change Fibres

Nathalia Hammes1,2, Vitor M. M. Araújo1, Orlando Lima Jr1,3, Behzad Zahabizadeh4, Vítor M. C. F. Cunha4, Eduardo Pereira4, Aires Camões5, Elina Marinho2, Helena Prado Felgueiras2, Manuel F. M. Costa6, Iran Rocha Segundo7, Joaquim Carneiro1

1: Centre of Physics of Minho and Porto Universities (CF-UM-UP), Azurém Campus, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; 2: Centre for Textile Science and Technology (2C2T-UMinho), Azurém Campus, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; 3: ARISE, Department of Civil Engineering (ISISE-UMinho), Azurém Campus, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; 4: ISISE, Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; 5: Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal; 6: Centre of Physics of Minho and Porto Universities (CF-UM-UP), Gualtar Campus, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; 7: CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal



11:45am - 12:00pm

Optimization of laser-induced printed colors for industrial applications

Robin Mermillot-Blondin1,2, Nicolas Dalloz2, Mathieu Hébert1, Alain Trémeau1, Rémi Emonet1,3,4, Nathalie Destouches1,3

1: Univ Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne; 2: TOPPAN Security SAS; 3: Institut Universitaire de France; 4: Inria

TOM NanoPhot S6: Nanophotonics
Location: Collegezaal B
Chair: Shima Rajabali, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The
 
10:30am - 10:45am

Large Area Nanostructuring of Van Der Waals Materials for Photon Harvesting in the Flat Optics Regime

Matteo Barelli1, Simone Di Marco1, Rajesh Chennuboina1, Matteo Gardella2, Giorgio Zambito1, Giulio Ferrando1, Maria Caterina Giordano1, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot1

1: University of Genoa, Italy; 2: CNR-IMM, Agrate Brianza, Italy



10:45am - 11:00am

Engineering nonlinear collective optical dynamics in nano-arrays of quantum emitters

Helmut Ritsch

Universität Innsbruck, Austria



11:00am - 11:15am

Photonic materials tailor the emission of phosphor thin films

Manuel Romero, Elena Cabello-Olmo, José María Viaña, Gabriel Lozano, Hernán Míguez

Spanish National Research Council, Spain



11:15am - 11:30am

Computational nanophotonic design framework for high brightness phosphor-converted micro-LED display architectures

Debapriya Pal, A. Femius Koenderink

AMOLF, Netherlands, The



11:30am - 11:45am

Stochastic Thermodynamics of a Linear Optical Cavity Driven On Resonance

Vashist Gangigude Ramesh, Joris Busink, René E.R. Moesbergen, Kevin J. H. Peters, Philip J. Ackermans, Said R. K. Rodriguez

Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, the Netherlands



11:45am - 12:00pm

Single-protein dynamics revealed by meta-surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

MohammadReza Aghdaee1, Sharif Zaidouni1, Yeganeh Bahiraie1, Gulsen Gork2, Yongyi Gao3, Anupa Kumari1, Oluwafemi S. Ojambati1

1: University of Twente, The Netherlands,; 2: Marmara University, Türkiye.; 3: University of Cambridge, UK

TOM Adaptive S3: Adaptive and Freeform Optics
Location: Collegezaal D
Chair: Alois Herkommer, University Stuttgart, Germany
 
10:30am - 11:00am
INVITED

Inverse methods for design in nonimaging optics

Martijn Anthonissen1, Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp1, Wilbert IJzerman1,2

1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Signify Research



11:00am - 11:15am

Designing Fresnel phase elements with differentiable raytracing

Jeroen Cerpentier, Youri Meuret

KU Leuven, Belgium



11:15am - 11:30am

An inverse method to compute freeform optical surfaces for generalized zero-étendue sources

Pieter A. Braam1, Jan H.M. ten Thije Boonkkamp1, Martijn J.H. Anthonissen1, Koondanibha Mitra1, Lisa Kusch1, Wilbert L. IJzerman1,2

1: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: Signify Research, The Netherlands



11:30am - 11:45am

Comparison of Phase Space and Quasi-Monte Carlo Ray Tracing for the 3D Compound Parabolic Concentrator

Willem Jansen1, Martijn Anthonissen1, Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp1, Wilbert IJzerman2,1

1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Signify Research, Netherlands, The



11:45am - 12:00pm

Hybrid Neural and Deconvolution Approach for Finite-Source Reflector Design

Roel Hacking1, Lisa Kusch1, Koondanibha Mitra1, Martijn Anthonissen1, Wilbert IJzerman1,2

1: Eindhoven University of Technology; 2: Signify

FS Complex S2: Optics with Complex Wavefronts
Location: Commissiekamer 2
Chair: Ivo M Vellekoop, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
 
10:30am - 11:00am
INVITED

Exploring brain with fibre optics

Tomáš Pikálek1, Miroslav Stibůrek1, Sergey Turtaev2, André Gomes2, Hana Uhlířová1, Tomáš Čižmár1,2,3

1: Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 147, 612 64, Brno, Czech Republic; 2: Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745, Jena, Germany; 3: Institute of Applied Optics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Fröbelstieg 1, 07743, Jena, Germany



11:00am - 11:30am
INVITED

Multiplexed Hartmann Wavefront Sensors for Complex, Broadband, and Vector Wavefields

Marc Guillon1,2

1: Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS UMR 8003, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 75006, France; 2: Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Paris 75005, France



11:30am - 12:00pm
INVITED

Polarized wavefront control and Point Spread Function engineering for nanoscale polarimetry

Sophie Brasselet1, Luis A. Aleman-Castaneda1, Isael Herrera1, Charitra Kumar1, Maximilian Lengauer1, Miguel A. Alonso1,2

1: Institut Fresnel, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Med, Marseille, France; 2: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

TOM Ultrafast S3: Ultrafast Phenomena
Location: Commissiekamer 3
 
10:30am - 11:00am
INVITED

Lightwave-Controlled Relativistic Plasma Mirrors At kHz Repetition Rate

Antoine Cavagna1, Milo Eder2, Jaismeen Kaur1, André Kalouguine1, Christian Cabello1, Marie Ouillé1, Gérard Mourou3, Enam Chowdhury4, Stefan Haessler1, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens1

1: Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA), IP-Paris, CNRS, France; 2: Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, USA; 3: Ecole polytechnique, France; 4: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fontana Laboratories, The Ohio State University, USA



11:00am - 11:15am

Boosting solid-state high-harmonic generation efficiency by non-collinear XUV wave mixing with two-color drivers

Nataliia Kuzkova1,2, Sylvianne D. C. Roscam Abbing1, Roy van der Linden1, Filippo Campi1, Brian de Keijzer1, Corentin Morice3, Zhuang-Yan Zhang1, Maarten L. S. van der Geest1, Peter M. Kraus1,2

1: Advanced Research Institute for Nanolithography, The Netherlands; 2: Vrije Universiteit, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Netherlands; 3: University of Amsterdam, Institute for Theoretical Physics, The Netherlands



11:15am - 11:30am

In-situ frequency comb shaping by multi-frequency injection in fast-gain lasers

Alexander Dikopoltsev, Diego Piciocchi, Ina Heckelmann, Bahareh Marzban, Lucius Miller, Mattias Beck, Giacomo Scalari, Jérôme Faist

ETH Zurich, Switzerland



11:30am - 11:45am

Conservation laws of generalized angular momentum by second-harmonic generation in underdense plasmas

Alexis Voisine1, Pierre Béjot1, Franck Billard1, Hugo Marroux2, Olivier Faucher1, Edouard Hertz1

1: ICB, UMR CNRS 6303 - Université Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, 21078, France; 2: Université Paris-Saclay CEA,CNRS LIDYL Gif-sur-Yvette 91191, France

 
12:00pm
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12:15pm
Best Student Presentation Awards

All student presentations - oral and poster - are eligible for the best student presentation awards. 

12:15pm
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12:30pm
CLOSING CEREMONY
12:30pm
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7:00pm
Carla Symposium and Training at TU Delft

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