Student Paper Competition

The papers submitted to the competition were reviewed during the standard Technical Program Committee (TPC) review process, which resulted in 24 finalists being selected. After the papers are presented at the meeting, the Program Committee members will select winners based on content quality, value to the technical community of interest and the student's presentation skills.

Finalists

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)

Taichi Muratsubaki, Hokkaido University, Japan (ITu3B.3)
Mode-Dependent Thermo-Optic Phase Shifter Using Coupled Waveguides on Silicon for 2-µm Waveband 

Conglin Sun, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, KU Leuven, Belgium  (ITu2B.5)
Proposal for a 500 GHz Silicon Photonic Modulator

John Rollinson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA  (IW2B.3)
Inverse-Designed 16-Channel Time-of-Flight Receiver in 45nm Silicon Photonic Process

Yishu Huang, IMEC, Ghent University, Belgium (ITh2B.2)
Demonstration of Graphene Waveguide Photodetector Based on Photothermoelectric Effect

Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

Aleksandra Strzelecka, University of California, Irvine, USA  (JM3D.4)
Squid-Inspired Materials with Tunable Heat-Managing Properties

Jonathan King, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (NoTu3H.3)
Second Harmonic Generation in Colloidal MoS2 Nanorods

Yuming Niu, McGill University, Canada (NoW2D.3)
Inverse-Designed Metasurface for Multidimensional Spatial State Reconstruction

Behnoosh Meskoob, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada  (NoW3H.3)
Terahertz Time-Domain Derivative Spectroscopy of Fructose Using a MEMS Piezo Speaker

Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)

Joelle Joseph Harb, ICMCB, University of Bordeaux, France (BM1A.2)
Throughput Enhancement of Type-A Volume Bragg Gratings Inscribed by Femtosecond Laser in Burst Mode for Industrial Applications

Yalina Garcia- Puente, Polytechnique Montreal , Canada (BM1A.3)
Enhanced Light-matter Interactions in Spherical Bragg Resonators

Matilde Sosa, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA List, Université Paris-Saclay, France (BTu2A.3)
Point-by-point Femtosecond Fiber Bragg Gratings Behavior at High Temperatures

Georg Richard Schwartz, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany (BTh3A.2)
Femtosecond Written Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings for Dispersion Control at 2 μm

Nonlinear Photonics (NP)

Liam Quinn, University of Auckland, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand (NpM1E.2)
Experimental Design, Implementation, and Measurements of an Optical Ising Machine Using Polarization Symmetry Breaking

Celine Mazoukh, INRS-EMT, Canada (NpTh1E.2)
Coherent Generation of Ultra-Stable Smart Frequency Combs

Alberto Nardi, IBM Research Europe, Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (NpTh3C.7)
A Broadband Chip-Based Gallium Phosphide Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier

Xiaoqin Huang, Nankai University, China (NpTh2D.3)
Promoting Light Localization of Topological Edge States via Weak Nonlinearity

Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

​Jaeyoon Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea (SpM1G.2)
Sub-Rate Sampled, Non-Integer Fractionally Spaced Volterra Nonlinear Equalizer for IM/DD Systems

Ziheng Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (SpM4H.5)
Rate-Flexible Coherent TFDM PON with Transparent Digital Signal Processing Aided by Residual Carrier

Dylan Chevalier, Orange Labs, Institute, France (SpTu2H.5)
Analog FFE Coefficients Optimization Using MMSE-based LMS Algorithm in PON Context

Olaf Schulz, Kiel University, Germany (SpTh1H.2)
Add-drop Multiplexing for Full Spectrum WDM NFDM Transmission Systems Using Spectral Overlap

Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)

Benoît Sierro, University of Bern, Switzerland (SoM4F.3)
Strong Reduction of Frequency-Comb Noise in All-Normal Dispersion Supercontinuum

Nasrollah Karampour, McGill University, Canada (SoW3F.2)
All Fiber Mid-Infrared Ring Cavity Laser

Parinaz Abdollahian, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark (SoTh2E.3)
Thermally Drawn Biodegradable Optical Fiber for Neural Applications

Zhuozhao Luo, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (SoTh2E.4)
Ultra-High Transverse Mode Purity in Double-Clad Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber