IOCO 2026 DAY 1
S6. Quantum Optics
Date: 25 March 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CET (Basel) | 04:00 EDT (New York) | 16:00 CST (Asia, Beijing)
| Time (CET) |
Speaker | Title |
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09:00-09:10 |
Prof. Dr. Costantino De Angelis Prof. Dr. Thomas Seeger |
Welcome & Opening Remarks Event Chairs |
| 09:10-09:20 |
Dr. Andrea Salamon |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Dr. Paolo Piergentili |
Quantum Noise Limited Transducers for Quantum Networks |
| Oral Presentations | S6. Quantum Optics | |
| 09:40-09:55 |
Fabrizio Barbato Selected Speaker |
Rapid Prototyping on SOI 220 nm of Integrated Optical Structures with Polymer Vladding within the QUANTEP Collaboration |
| 09:55-10:10 |
Riccardo Ciciotti Selected Speaker |
Development of Te/Bi2Se3 Heterostructures for Photodetectors Sensitive to VIS and NIR Wavelengths |
|
10:10-10:25 |
Federico Rapuzzi Selected Speaker |
Advanced Nanomanipulation and Nanofabrication for Silicon Photonic Waveguide-Based Polarization Modulators Enabled by Semiconductor Nanomaterials |
| 10:25-10:40 |
Ajeethkumar Rengarajan Selected Speaker |
Developing Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors with Photon Number Resolving Capability |
| 10:40-10:55 |
Ilya Galaktionov Selected Speaker |
Efficiency Comparison of Stochastic and Gradient Descent Algorithms for Laser Beam Focusing into a Single-Mode Fiber |
| 10:55-11:10 |
Greta Andrini Selected Speaker |
Engineering Silicon Color Centers for Scalable Quantum Photonic Technologies |
| 11:10-14:00 |
Break |
S5. Laser Sciences and Technology
Date: 25 March 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 09:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 CST (Asia, Beijing)
| Time (CET) |
Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Dr. Guido Toci |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:40 |
Professor Rick Trebino |
Measuring Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About a Light Pulse |
| 14:40-15:10 |
Prof. Dr. Luca Poletto |
Raman Spectroscopy for Gas Detection: Applications to Energy and Agrifood |
| 15:10-15:40 |
Dr. Angela Pirri Keynote Speaker |
A Systematic Investigation of the Energy-Transfer Mechanisms in Dy:Lu3Al5O12 Ceramics Co-doped with Tb3+ for Developing Yellow Lasers |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Dr. Luigi Santamaria Amato Invited Speaker |
Quantum Inspired Imaging and Spectroscopy |
| Oral Presentations | S5. Laser Sciences and Technology | |
| 16:00-16:15 | António J.O. Ferreira Selected Speaker |
Controlling Laser Energy Deposition at Polymer Interfaces via Optical Absorbance Engineering |
| 16:15-16:30 | Svetlana Boshnakova Selected Speaker |
Method for Additive Manufacturing in the Automotive Sector for Surfaces Enhanced with Properties of Steel Components |
IOCO 2026 DAY 2
S1. Biomedical Optics
Date: 26 March 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00 (CET (Basel) | 04:00 EDT (New York) | 16:00 CST (Asia, Beijing)
| Time (CET) |
Speaker | Title |
|
09:00-09:10 |
Dr. Giuseppe Trusso Sfrazzetto Session Chairs |
Welcome from the Session Chairs |
| 09:10-09:30 |
Dr. Rosalba Pitruzzella |
Optics and Chemistry in Sensing: Polymer Imprinting as an Innovative Strategy for Sensitive Optical Waveguides |
| 09:30-09:50 |
Dr. Rosella Santonocito |
A Single-Device Approach to Multiplexed Health Monitoring Using Fluorescent Array Sensors |
| Oral Presentations | S1. Biomedical Optics | |
| 09:50-10:05 |
Rukmani Singh Selected Speaker |
Lossy Mode Resonance-Based Optical Fiber Sensors for the Label-Free Detection of Osteosarcoma-Related Biomarkers |
| 10:05-10:20 |
Claudia Borri Selected Speaker |
A Preliminary Cytocompatibility Study of Electrospun Nanofibrous Matrices for their Integration into a Fiber-Based Biophotonic Sensing Platform |
|
10:20-10:35 |
Oleh Demianyk Selected Speaker |
Chiral Sensing Enhancement via Subwavelength Plasmonic Gratings |
| 10:35-10:50 |
Laura Marcela Valencia-Granada Selected Speaker |
Multispectral Image Analysis for the Characterization of an Experimental Artificial System Integrating Breast Tissue and Blood Vascularization |
| 10:50-14:00 |
Break |
S3. Geometrical Optics
Date: 26 March 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 09:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 CST (Asia, Beijing)
| Time (CET) |
Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Dr. Davide Rocco |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:40 |
Dr. Marco Gandolfi |
Opto-Thermal Tunability in Phase-Change Metasurfaces |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Dr. Pablo De Gracia |
Optical Quality Through Focus of Multifocal Contact Lenses used for Myopia Control |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Dr. Grazia Giuseppina Politano Invited Speaker |
Variable-Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Optical Characterization of Advanced Materials |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Dr. Giuseppe Brunetti Invited Speaker |
Phase-Change Materials for Reconfigurable and Non-Volatile Microwave Photonics |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Professor Subhash Hanamant Risbud Invited Speaker |
Fused Silica Optical Glass Processed Rapidly Using Quartz Sand From Homerun Resources Company (HMRFF) |
| Oral Presentations | S3. Geometrical Optics | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Marco Gandolfi Selected Speaker |
Metalens Optimization: The Look-Up Table Approach and Beyond |
IOCO 2026 DAY 3
S4. Photonics and Optical Communications
Date: 27 March 2026 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 (CET (Basel) | 04:00 EDT (New York) | 16:00 CST (Asia, Beijing)
| Time (CET) |
Speaker | Title |
|
09:00-09:10 |
Dr. Jiahao Huo Session chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 09:10-09:40 |
Professor Paulo Monteiro |
Optical Wireless Communications: Powering Ultra-High-Capacity Connectivity |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Dr. Meisam Abdollahi |
Intelligent Computing and Silicon Photonics |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Dr. Giovanna Calo |
Mode Asymmetry in Magneto-Plasmonic Waveguides for Integrated Non-Reciprocal Devices |
| Oral Presentations | S4. Photonics and Optical Communications | |
| 10:20-10:35 |
Vladimir Toporovsky Selected Speaker |
Dual-Wavelength Adaptive Optical System for Free-Space Communications Performance Improvement |
| 10:35-10:50 |
Oleh Yermakov Selected Speaker |
Metasurface-Based Near-Field Polarization Transformer for Localized Light |
|
10:50-11:05 |
Jaime Cariñe Selected Speaker |
Adaptive Phase Stabilization in Fiber-Optic Systems for Quantum Information |
| 11:05-11:20 |
Gustavo Machi Matsumine Selected Speaker |
Photonic Band Gap Optimization in SiC-air crystals via Grey Wolf Optimizer |
| 11:20-14:00 |
Break |
S2. Optoelectronics & Optical Engineering
Date: 27 March 2026 (Friday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 09:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 CST (Asia, Beijing)
| Time (CET) |
Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:10 |
Prof. Dr. Yuriy Garbovskiy |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:40 |
Prof. Dr. Tigran Galstian |
Liquid Crystal Adaptive Biomedical Optics |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Dr. Manuel Jesús Hermoso-Orzáez |
Angle-Dependent Glare Behavior in LED Luminaires: A Unified cosm Model for Urban Observers |
| Oral Presentations | S2. Optoelectronics & Optical Engineering | |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Hiroyuki Fujii |
Modeling Light Scattering and Agglomeration of Colloidal Suspensions: Fast Calculations of Polydisperse Dense Systems |
| 15:15-15:30 | Pengfei Yang Selected Speaker |
Influence of Nose Curvature on Depolarization of Blunt Cones Based on the Integral Equation Method |
| 15:30-15:45 |
Haitian Liu |
Validation of a Near-infrared Laser Beam Profiler at 2 µm Using a Rotating Detector |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Salima El Amrani |
Optical Spectroscopy of Tb³⁺/Yb³⁺ Rare Earth Ions in Silica-Hafnia Sol–Gel for Photovoltaic Applications |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Christian Hernández Álvarez Selected Speaker |
From Luminescent Thermometry to Optical Current Sensing |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Yeraldin Alejandra Velez Galvis Selected Speaker |
Optimization of Perovskite Solar Cell Performance Through Machine Learning |
| 16:30-16:40 |
Prof. Dr. Costantino De Angelis
Prof. Dr. Thomas Seeger
Event Chairs
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Closing Remarks |