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Incubator Meetings

Optica Incubator Meetings

The Optica Incubator Program was created to provide unique and focused experiences, providing researchers, engineers and business leaders in niche fields with a valuable opportunity to meet and discuss advances, challenges and opportunities regarding their research. Optica Incubators:

  • Target emerging topics and fields that do not have the critical mass needed to support an Optica topical meeting structure.
  • Function to further the interest and support of promising topic areas, assessing the broader implications of the topic for future research and application.
  • Explore possibilities for greater inclusion and propagation of the topic into peer-reviewed topical meeting and/or congresses or conferences.
  • Encourage extensive formal and informal discussion while establishing a sense of community among participants.
  • Offer a valuable means of disseminating information and ideas in a way that cannot be achieved through the usual channels of communication—publications and presentations at large scientific meetings..
     

Propose a New Incubator

Optica continuously strives to expand the incubator program to examine new and burgeoning topics. Please use this form to propose an incubator you would be interested in hosting or a topic area you would recommend we explore.

2025 Incubators

Incubator on Next-Gen Fiber Sensing: How to Exploit Telecom Infrastructure?
05 - 07 February 2025
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosts:
Emanuele Virgillito, Politecnico di Torino
Ettore Biondi, California Institute of Technology

Incubator on Cryogenic Integrated Photonics for Classical and Quantum Systems
10 - 12 September 2025
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosts:
Paolo Pintus, University of Cagliari
Galan Moody, University of California
Mo Soltani, RTX BBN Technologies

Incubator on Optical Implementations of Neural Networks
17 - 19 September 2025
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosts: 
Demetri Psaltis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Logan Wright, Yale University
Fei Xia, University of California, Irvine

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