Conference Agenda

Session Overview
Location: Hasseltzaal
 
Date: Monday, 25/Aug/2025
3:30pm
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5:00pm
TOM Quantum S1: Quantum Polaritonics
Location: Hasseltzaal
Chair: N. Asger Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
 
3:30pm - 4:00pm
INVITED

Ultra-confined Light and Ultra-Strong Coupling Regime with phonon polaritions

Luis Martín-Moreno

Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain



4:00pm - 4:15pm

Strong coupling of organic light-harvesting complexes in metallic microcavities for low-threshold microlasers

Alice Boschetti1, Andrea Betti2, Eleonora Cara1, Giulia Serrano3, Renato Torre2, Giuseppe Luca Celardo2

1: Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy; 2: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Italy; 3: Dipartimento di Chimica Ugo Schiff, Università di Firenze, Italy



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Strongly coupled magnon–plasmon polaritons in graphene-two-dimensional ferromagnet heterostructures

António Costa1, Mikhail Vasilevskiy1, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier2, Nuno Peres1

1: Universidade do Minho, Portugal; 2: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Hamiltonian learning of excitons in one-dimensional system

Yitao Sun, Jose Lado

Aalto University, Finland



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Chiral spin and optics in 2D magnets

Youqiang Huang, Tiago V. C. Antão, Adolfo O. Fumega, Jose L. Lado, Zhipei Sun

Aalto University, Finland


 
Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
TOM Quantum S2: Quantum Polaritonics
Location: Hasseltzaal
Chair: N. Asger Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Ultrathin polaritonics in van der Waals metasurfaces

Luca Sortino

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany



9:00am - 9:15am

Nonlocal and quantum effects on 2D anisotropic plasmons

André Jorge Chaves1,2, Line Jelver2, Diego Rabelo da Costa3, Joel Cox4,5, N. Asger Mortensen4,5, Nuno Peres2,4,6

1: Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil; 2: POLIMA---Center for Polariton-driven Light--Matter Interactions, University of Southern Denmark; 3: Federal University of Ceará; 4: Centro de Física and Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho; 5: Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark; 6: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)



9:15am - 9:45am
INVITED

Nonlinear plasmonics in 2D nanoribbons and heterostructures

Line Jelver1, Joel D. Cox1,2

1: POLIMA Center for Polariton-driven Light−Matter Interactions, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.; 2: Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.



9:45am - 10:00am

Free-electron optical nonlinearities in heavily doped semiconductors: from fundamentals to integrated photonics

Gonzalo Alvarez-Perez1, Huatian Hu1, Michele Ortolani1,2,3, Cristian Ciracì1

1: Italian Institute of Technology, Italy; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; 3: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

3:30pm
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5:00pm
Joint Session: Ultrafast Phenomena + Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Location: Hasseltzaal
 
INVITED

Light generation from free electrons: from classical to quantum aspects

Valerio Di Giulio

University of Göttingen, Germany



INVITED

The aluminium oxide integrated photonics platform: enabler for quantum applications

Sonia Maria Garcia Blanco

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, Netherlands, The



Quantum state preparation and readout with modulated electrons

Jaime Abad-Arredondo, Antonio I. Fernádez-Domínguez

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain



Femtosecond Laser–Induced Activation of Tin-Implanted Diamond: Insights from a Two-Temperature Model Simulation and Optical Characterization

Ecem Layra Görk1, Alessio Miranda1,2, Ioannis Varveris1,2, Nikolaj Kjerulff Nitzsche1, Tianyin Chen2, Laurens D. A. Siebbeles3, Ryoichi Ishihara1,2, Salahuddin Nur2

1: QuTech, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: Department of Quantum Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; 3: Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands


 
Date: Wednesday, 27/Aug/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
TOM Nonlinear S1: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Location: Hasseltzaal
 
8:30am - 9:00am
INVITED

Experimental characterization of optical feedback and current modulation effects on the spatial coherence of a semiconductor laser

Maria Duque-Gijon1, Cristina Masoller1, Jordi Tiana-Alsina2

1: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; 2: Universitat de Barcelona



9:00am - 9:15am

Memory Induced Slowing Down of Light Dynamics

Roos M. de Boer, Said R.K. Rodriguez

AMOLF, Netherlands, The



9:15am - 9:30am

Frequency up-conversion of infrared radiation in AlGaAs-on-insulator nonlocal metasurface

Giorgio Guercio1, Martina Morassi2, Aristide Lemaitre2, Giuseppe Leo1,3

1: MPQ, Université Paris Cité, France; 2: C2N, Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS, France; 3: IUF, France



9:30am - 9:45am

Simultaneous Frequency Conversion and SpectralTemporal Shaping of Single-Photon Pulses

Michał Jan Mikołajczyk1, Ali Golestani1,2, Rex H. S. Bannerman3, James C. Gates3, Peter G. R. Smith3, Michał Karpiński1

1: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland; 2: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; 3: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom



9:45am - 10:00am

Quantum-like Schroedinger’s cats by exploiting orbital angular momentum of the light

Sara Riccio, Rincy Kunjumon, Riccardo Falsini, Davide Daloiso, Fabio Antonio Bovino

Dept. SBAI, SAPIENZA University of Rome, Italy

3:30pm
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5:00pm
TOM Nonlinear S2: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Location: Hasseltzaal
 
3:30pm - 4:00pm
INVITED

How fast do tunnelling particles move?

Jan Klaers

University of Twente, Netherlands



4:00pm - 4:15pm

Resonant nanostructures based on AlInP – a low-loss material platform for nonlinear nanophotonics

Radoslaw Kolkowski1, Seyed Ahmad Shahahmadi2, Serguei Novikov2, Jani Oksanen2, Andreas C. Liapis3, Huayu Bai1, Timo Stolt1, Matti Kaivola1, Andriy Shevchenko1

1: Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland; 2: Engineered Nanosystems Group, Aalto University, Finland; 3: Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland



4:15pm - 4:30pm

Nonlinear Photonics for Sub-Terahertz Sources

Shima Rajabali1,2, Xinrui Zhu2, Hana K. Warner2, Yunxiang Song2, Leticia Magalhaes2, Amirhassan Shams Ansari2,3, Marko Loncar2

1: Department of Quantum and Computer Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; 2: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,USA; 3: DRS Daylight Solutions, 16465 Via Esprillo, CA, USA



4:30pm - 4:45pm

Phase-locked parametric-down conversion inside soliton waveguides in LNOI films

Eugenio Fazio1, Alessandro Bile1, Arif Nabizada1, Alessandro Belardini1, Mathieu Chauvet2, Micheal Scalora3

1: Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences for Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome; 2: Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, CNRS, institut FEMTO-ST; 3: 3 FCDD-AMT-MGR, DEVCOM AvMC, Charles M. Bowden Research Center



4:45pm - 5:00pm

Quantum-enhanced single molecule localization microscopy

Anna Ariel Zhitnitsky, Rens van Dam, Heike Smedes, Bernd Rieger, Sjoerd Stallinga

TU Delft, Department of Imaging Physics, Netherlands

5:15pm
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6:45pm
TOM Nonlinear S3: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Location: Hasseltzaal
 
5:15pm - 5:45pm
INVITED

Topological amplification in non-linear cavity arrays

Tomas Ramos1, Álvaro Gómez-León1, Laszlo Rassaert2, Alejandro González-Tudela1, Juanjo García-Ripoll1, Tomasso Roscilde2, Diego Porras1

1: IFF-CSIC Madrid, Spain; 2: Laboratory of Physics, CNRS, Lyon, France



5:45pm - 6:15pm
INVITED

Engineering Quantum Dot Quantum Light Sources for Telecom: Challenges and Future Directions

Elizaveta Semenova

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark



6:15pm - 6:30pm

Hybrid quantum correlations from a single cavity: Generating simultaneously squeezed and entangled optical beams

Carlos Navarete-Benlloch, Eugenio Roldán, Germán J. de Valcárcel

Universitat de València, Spain



6:30pm - 6:45pm

Phase synchronization dynamics of a mutually coupled laser system for quantum random number generation

Berta Martínez-Pàmias1,2, Miquel Rudé1, Cristina Masoller2

1: Quside Technologies S.L., Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain; 2: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament de Física, Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain


 
Date: Thursday, 28/Aug/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
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