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1 October 2020 • Virtual Conference The Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society 28 September - 1 October 2020 • Virtual Conference IPC www.ieee-ipc.org General Chair: Program Chair: Member-at-Large: Zetian Mi, Christina Lim, Dominique Dagenais, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Melbourne National Science Foundation Program Vice-Chair: Weidong Zhou, University of Texas, Arlington IEEE Photonics Conference 28 Sep - 01 Oct 2020 9am MB1.2 - Measuring the Multimode Fiber Transmission Matrix from Monday, 28 September only the Proximal Side » Szu-Yu Lee (United States)1, Vicente Parot (United States)1, Brett 1 1 8:15am Welcome Remarks Bouma (United States) , Martin Villiger (United States) (1. Wellman Center for Photomedicine) Chaired by: Zetian Mi (United States) and CARMEN MENONI (United States) 9:15am MB1.3 - Amplitude division aperture synthesis optical coherence tomography » Linbo Liu (Singapore)1, Xin Ge (Singapore)1, En Bo (Singapore)1, Si 8:30am SS MLPS 1 - Chen (Singapore)1 (1. School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University) MA1 - Machine Learning in Photonics Systems I (Machine Learning for Optical Devices Design) 9:30am Chaired by: Keisuke Kojima (United States) and Alan Pak-Tao Lau (Hong MB1.4 - 3D Fluorescence Imaging with a Computational Kong) Mesoscope » Yujia Xue (United States)1, Ian Davison (United States)1, David Boas (United States)1, Lei Tian (United States)1 (1. Boston University) 8:30am MA1.1 (Invited) - Design of Photonic Crystal Cavities Using Deep Neural Networks » Takashi Asano (Japan)1 (1. Kyoto University) 9:45am MB1.5 - Jolab: A free software to simulate light propagation in optical systems 9am MA1.2 (Invited) - Metasurfaces, Metadevices, and Metasystems: » Dylan M. Marques (United Kingdom)1, James Guggenheim (United Hierarchical Photonics via Machine Learning Kingdom)1, Peter R. T. Munro (United Kingdom)1 (1. University College » Wenshan Cai (United States)1 (1. Georgia Institute of Technology) London (UCL)) 9:30am MA1.3 - Ultra-compact Design of Power Splitters via Machine 8:30am NANO 1 - Learning MC1 - Metasurfaces and Plasmonic Nanostructures » Sourangsu Banerji (United States)1, Alex Hamrick (United States)1, Apratim Majumder (United States)1, Rajesh Menon (United States)1, Chaired by: Junsuk Rho (Korea, Republic of) and Qing Gu (United States) Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (United States)1 (1. University of Utah) 8:30am MC1.2 - Inverse design of plasmonic metasurfaces by 8:30am BIO 1 - convolutional neural network MB1 - Computational Imaging and Simulation » Ronghui Lin (Saudi Arabia)1, Yanfen Zhai (Saudi Arabia)1, Chenxin 1 1 Chaired by: Martin Villiger (United States) and Peter R. T. Munro (United Xiong (Saudi Arabia) , Xiaohang Li (Saudi Arabia) (1. KAUST) Kingdom) 8:45am MC1.3 - Tip-Enhanced Photoluminescence in Picocavity 8:30am MB1.1 (Invited) - Optical imaging of a mouse brain through an intact skull with an ideal diffraction-limited resolution » Hana Hrim (United States)1, Sharad Ambardar (United States)1, 1 1 » Wonshik Choi (Korea, Republic of)1 (1. Center for Molecular Michael Musto (United States) , Dmitri Voronine (United States) (1. Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science) University of South Florida) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference. Page 1 IEEE Photonics Conference 28 Sep - 01 Oct 2020 Continued from Monday, 28 September 8:30am SS OFC 1 - ME1 - SS OFC 1 Chaired by: Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh (Spain) and Chaitanya Kumar MC1.4 - Unidirectional Narrowband Perfect Absorption in Quasi- 9am Suddapalli (Spain) random Structures - Interplay of Gap States and Tamm Plasmon Modes » Nitish Kumar Gupta (India)1, Anjani Kumar Tiwari (India)1, 8:30am ME1.2 - Ultra-Flat Electro-Optic Optical Frequency Comb Harshawardhan Wanare (India)1, S. Anantha Ramakrishna (India)1 (1. Generation Based on Backward Feedback Remodulation Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) » Sang-Pil Han (Korea, Republic of)1, Jaegyu Park (Korea, Republic of)1, Sungil Kim (Korea, Republic of)1, Minhyup Song (Korea, Republic of)1 (1. 9:15am MC1.5 - Active Chiral Metamaterials for Tunable Chiroptical Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)) Coupling and Valley Dynamics 1 1 » Zilong Wu (United States) , Yuebing Zheng (United States) (1. the 8:45am ME1.3 - High-bandwidth readout of optomechanical cavity sensors university of texas at austin) with electro-optic frequency combs » Benjamin Reschovsky (United States)1, David Long (United States)1, 8:30am MWP / AVFOP 1 - Yiliang Bao (United States)1, Feng Zhou (United States)1, Richard Allen 1 1 MD1 - Integrated Microwave Photonics (United States) , Thomas LeBrun (United States) , Jason Gorman (United States)1 (1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chaired by: Richard DeSalvo (United States) and Ampalavanapillai Gaithersburg,) Nirmalathas (Australia) 8:30am MD1.1 (Invited) - Highly Integrated RF-Photonics for Low-SWaP 9am ME1.4 (Invited) - Optical Coherence Synthesizer with Optical Applications Frequency Comb 1 » Tony Kowalczyk (United States)1 (1. Lockheed Martin) » Kaoru Minoshima (Japan) (1. The University of Electro- Communications) 9am MD1.2 - Optical synchronization between a 300 GHz frequency comb and a 10 GHz chip-scale MLL 9:30am ME1.1 (Invited) - Synchronization of Microreosnator-Based » Ricardo Bustos-Ramirez (United States)1, Lawrence Trask (United Frequency Combs States)2, Ashish Bhardwaj (United States)3, Gloria Hoefler (United » Alexander Gaeta (United States)1 (1. University of Columbia) States)3, Fred Kish (United States)3, Peter Delfyett (United States)1 (1. CREOL, The College of Optics, University of Central Florida, 2. CREOL, 3. Infinera Corporation) 8:30am OMND 1 - MF1 - Novel and Nonlinear Devices 9:15am MD1.3 - Towards Integrated RF Photodetector-Antenna Emitters in Chaired by: Antonio Hurtado (United Kingdom) and William Loh (United Silicon Photonics States) » Bahaa Radi (Canada)1, Ajaypal Singh Dhillon (Canada)1, Odile 1 Liboiron-Ladouceur (Canada) (1. Department of Electrical and 8:30am MF1.1 - Hybrid silicon MOS optoelectronic memristor with non- Computer Engineering, McGill University) volatile memory » Bassem Tossoun (United States)1, Xia Sheng (United States)1, John 9:30am MD1.4 (Invited) - Microwave Integrated Photonics Paul Strachan (United States)1, Di Liang (United States)1, Raymond G. » Stephen Ralph (United States)1 (1. Georgia Tech) Beausoleil (United States)1 (1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Powered by Ex Ordo, everything you need to run a research conference. Page 2 IEEE Photonics Conference 28 Sep - 01 Oct 2020 Continued from Monday, 28 September 9:30am MG1.3 - First Real-Time Demonstration of Probabilistic Shaping 400G Transmission Enabling High-Performance Pluggable Module Applications 8:45am MF1.2 - Efficient second harmonic generation in a doubly resonant » Alejandro Castrillon (Argentina)1, Hai Xu (United States)1, Damian photonic crystal cavity based on a bound state in the continuum Morero (Argentina)1, Alfredo Taddei (Argentina)1, Martin Asinari » Jun Wang (Switzerland)1, Marco Clementi (Italy)2, Andrea Barone (Argentina)1, Shu Hao Fan (United States)1, Hammad Ansari (United (Italy)2, Momchil Minkov (United States)3, Jean-François Carlin States)1, Shih-Cheng Wang (United States)1, Kiran Puttegowda (United (Switzerland)1, Nicolas Grandjean (Switzerland)1, Shanhui Fan (United States)1, Mario Hueda (Argentina)1 (1. Inphi Corporation) States)3, Romuald Houdre (Switzerland)1, Dario Gerace (Italy)2, Matteo Galli (Italy)2 (1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2. Università di Pavia, 3. Stanford University) 9:45am MG1.4 - Hyperscale Data Center Networks with Interconnected Transparent Island Architecture 9am MF1.3 - A model for electro-optic response of slow-light silicon » Md Nooruzzaman (Canada)1, Xavier Fernando (Canada)1 (1. Ryerson photonic modulators with lumped electrodes University) » Omid Jafari (Canada)1, Wei Shi (Canada)1, Sophie LaRochelle (Canada)1 (1. Centre d’optique, photonique et laser, Université Laval) 8:30am OI 1 - MH1 - Optical Interconnect Solutions I 9:15am MF1.4 - TM-Pass Polarizer for Ultradense High-Performance Photonic Integrated Circuits Chaired by: Jaime Cardenas (United States) » Nikhil Dhingra (India)1, Francesco Dell'Olio (Italy)2 (1. University of Delhi South Campus, 2. Polytechnic University of Bari) 8:30am MH1.1 (Invited) - Advancements in Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits for High Density Optical Interconnects 9:30am MF1.5 (Invited) - Stabilized Quantum Entanglement via Cavity » Yuliya Akulova (United States)1 (1. Intel Corporation) Optomechanics » Aashish Clerk (United States)1 (1. The University of Chicago) 9am MH1.2 - 160Gb/s optical link using Quantum-Dot comb laser source and SiGe APD 8:30am OCN 1 - » SUDHARSANAN SRINIVASAN (United States)1, Bassem Tossoun MG1 - High-speed Transport Networks (United States)1, Geza Kurczveil (United States)1, Zhihong Huang Chaired by: Takehiro Tsuritani (Japan) and Hai-Han Lu (Taiwan) (United States)1, Di Liang (United States)1, Raymond G. Beausoleil (United States)1 (1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise) 8:30am MG1.1 (Invited) - Converged Transport Networks for 5G 1 1 » Jörg-Peter Elbers (Germany) , Jim (Shihuan) Zou (Germany) (1. ADVA) 9:15am MH1.3 - A Chip-level Optical Interconnect for CPU » Qinfen Hao (China)1, Kai Hao (China)2, Haiyun Xue (China)3, Meng Han 9am MG1.2 (Invited) - Ultra-Wideband Optical Transmission System (China)4, Nan Qi (China)2, Kunming Zhang (China)1, Xingmao Niu Applying Optical Wavelength Conversion Technology (China)3, Limin Xiao (China)4, Dongrui Fan (China)1 (1. Institute
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