The 1st International Online Conference on Optics
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Online Conference on Optics (IOCO 2026), which will be hosted online from 25 to 27 March 2026.
The conference serves as a premier platform for optics researchers and enthusiasts to share their latest findings, innovative ideas, and practical experiences in the fields of optics and photonics. IOCO 2026 will present the state of the art and exciting new developments in optics relating to the following topics:
S1. Biomedical Optics;
S2. Optoelectronics and Optical Engineering;
S3. Geometrical Optics;
S4. Photonics and Optical Communications;
S5. Laser Sciences and Technology;
S6. Quantum Optics;
IOCO 2026 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the vibrant global community of scientists and engineers in the field.
IOCO 2026 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question-and-answer sessions and discussion groups, which will take place online.
The conference committee will review the submitted abstracts. The authors of accepted contributions will have their work displayed in an abstract collection. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted as full-length papers for publication in Optics.
Chairs of IOCO 2026
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJan 16, 2026
- Abstract acceptance notificationFeb 10, 2026
- Registration end dateMar 23, 2026
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Marco Gandolfi
Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.;
Marco Gandolfi is currently an Assistant Professor (RTDa) at Università degli Studi di Brescia. He obtained a Bachelor degree cum laude in Mathematics in 2011, a Bachelor degree cum laude in Physics in 2012, and a Master degree cum laude in Physics in 2014. He received his Ph.D. in Science, Physics at KU Leuven University, Belgium. The dissertation concerned the aspects of ultrafast thermomechanics at the nanoscale. The Ph.D. project was joined with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy. During the Ph.D., he spent 9 months visiting the FemtoNanoOptics group, Université Lyon 1 (France), to work on a joint research project. He has been Postdoc Researcher at National Research Council, National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO) in Brescia, Italy, from December 2019 to January 2022.
Dr. Gandolfi's current research interests cover the modeling and opto-thermo-mechanical simulations of photonic structures, metasurfaces and metalenses
Prof. Dr. Tigran Galstian
Canada Research Chair in Liquid Crystals and Behavioral Biophotonics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada;
Tigran Galstian (or Galstyan) started his studies at the Physics Department of Yerevan State University, Armenia (former Soviet Union). He received M.Sc. (Solid State Lasers) and Ph.D. degrees (Quantum Electronics) from the Special Department of Physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia. He spent several years as PostDoc researcher in Armenia and France and then moved to Canada where he is currently professor, head of the laboratory of Photonic Materials and Component at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada) as well as holder of Canada’s research chair in Liquid Crystals and Behavioral Biophotonics. His main research interests are in self-aligned molecular systems and their applications in electrooptic materials and in biology. His group is investigating the molecular self-organization mechanisms and their impact on key material properties as well as their influence on the behavior of light (focusing, divergence, color), molecules (diffusion of chiral “medical” molecules) and living microorganisms (bacteria). He has co-authored more than 850 scientific, technical and vulgarization communications, including more than 60 awarded patents. He is ranked (by Scholar GPS) in the top 0.2% of world scientists in the field of Liquid Crystals. He was the co-founder of high tech companies, Photintech (Quebec, Canada; commercializing “Electrically variable fiber optic components”); LensVector (San Jose, USA; commercializing “Electrically variable beam shaping components”); and PATQER (Quebec, Canada; commercializing “Polarization imaging devices”) where he is currently the CTO.
Assoc. Prof. Paulo Monteiro
Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (DETI), Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;
Prof. Paulo Pereira Monteiro received his “Licenciatura” degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 1988, followed by an M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales, UK, in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro, research coordinator of Optical Communications Systems and Networking at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), and director of the Electrical and Computer Engineering course at the University of Aveiro. From October 2002 to March 2007, he was Head of Research for Optical Networks at Siemens S.A., Portugal. He then worked at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) Portugal from April 2007 until May 2013, as a Research Manager. From 2016 until 2023, he was the Director and Scientific Committee member of the Doctoral Programme in Telecommunications MAP-tele. His main research interests include optical communication networks, microwave photonics, and electronic subsystems. He has successfully tutored and co-tutored more than 18 PhDs and participated in more than 28 projects (national and international). He has authored/co-authored more than 19 patent applications, over 160 papers in journals, and 300 conference contributions.
Prof. Rick Trebino
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA;
Rick Trebino was born in Boston on January 18, 1954. He was quite poor as a child, but, on scholarships, he earned his high-school degree from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, his B.A. from Harvard in 1977, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1983. Shortly afterward, while at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, he i-vented Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG), the first technique for the complete measurement of an ultrashort laser pulse in time, solving this long-standing famous problem in the field of ultrafast optics and advancing pulse measurement from blurry black-and-white snapshots to high-resolution full-color displays. In 1998, he accepted a Chair at Georgia Tech, where he extended humankind’s measure-ment capability to the complete spatiotemporal electromagnetic field of even highly complex ultrashort pulses. He currently also develops more advanced approaches to optics and physics education, doing for lectures what Gutenberg did for books. He’s received numerous prestigious awards, including 2024’s R.W. Wood Prize and several for his pioneering contributions to optics and physics education, and is a Fellow of four scientific societies. He was recently ranked by ScholarGPS in the top 0.1% of all scientists and #1 of all 19,000 ultrashort-laser-pulse scientists worldwide. He freely provides his elegant, entertaining, and fully narrated multimedia entire-course video lectures to the world via his web site to encourage the creation of free high-quality video lectures in academia in general.
Prof. Dr. Luca Poletto
National Research Council, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, Padova, Italy;
Luca Poletto is Research Director at CNR-Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (CNR-IFN) and the Head of the CNR-IFN Research Division of Padova. After the graduation in Electronic Engineering cum laude at the University of Padova, Italy, he achieved the PhD title in Electronic Engineering from the same university in 1997. He has been research staff member of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter since 1999. From 2009 to 2016, he has been also Adjunct Professor of “Optical nanotechnologies” at University of Padova. Since 2019, he is Visiting Professor at the School of Electronics of Nanjing University (China).
His main scientific interests are the development of spectroscopic instruments for the extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray spectral regions for laboratory and space applications, the generation and applications of ultrashort femtosecond and attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet, the development of instrumentation for free-electron laser radiation and the applications of techniques related to applied optics, mainly laser spectroscopy for gas detection.
Dr. Angela Pirri
Institute of Applied Physics “N. Carrara” (IFAC), National Research Council (CNR), Florence, Italy;
Angela Pirri is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the National Research Council (IFAC-CNR) in Florence. She holds an M.S. in Physics from the University of Pisa and a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from the University of Siena. Her international experience includes a Marie Curie Fellowship at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and visiting scientist positions at ETH Zurich and Université Paris Diderot. Her research focuses on solid-state lasers, transparent polycrystalline ceramics, and non-linear optics. An Adjunct Professor at the University of Florence, she also serves as a certified project manager (ISIPM). Beyond laser physics, she is actively engaged in developing civilian drone applications and smart-capsule technologies for medical transport.
- S1. Biomedical Optics
- S2. Optoelectronics & Optical Engineering
- S3. Geometrical Optics
- S4. Photonics and Optical Communications
- S5. Laser Sciences and Technology
DAY 1
S6. Quantum Optics
S5. Laser Sciences and Technology
DAY 2
S1. Biomedical Optics
S3. Geometrical Optics
DAY 3
S4. Photonics and Optical Communications
S2. Optoelectronics & Optical Engineering
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