Welcome to PGC 2024

Call For Papers

Track 1. Luminescent and Advanced Materials

Chairs: Alicja Bachmatiuk, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Joanna Cybinska, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Jarosław Myśliwiec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
               Xialong Cheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China



  • Physics, modelling, processing and characterization of luminescent materials
  • Phosphors, quantum dots and low dimensional materials for lighting and displays
  • Advances in scintillator development and upconversion materials
  • Luminescent materials for photovoltaic applications
  • Infrared materials
  • Ternary halide and chalcogenide materials (including perovskites)
  • Low-dimensional materials (two-, one-. And, zero-dimensional materials)
  • Other advanced materials

Track 2. III-V and Integrated Optical Devices

Chairs: Detlef Hommel, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Lukasz Janicki, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Robert Kudrawiec, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Didit Yudistira, IMEC, Belgium
               Jianguo Liu, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, China



  • III-V photonics
  • Design, fabrication, and characterization of novel integrated devices
  • Device packaging, performance and reliability test
  • Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics
  • Large-scale photonic integrated systems
  • High speed light sources, modulators, and detectors
  • Waveguide and other passive optoelectronic devices
  • Semiconductor materials growth and device development
  • Lasers for Datacom/Telecom wavelength
  • VCSEL and LIDARs
  • MicroLEDs and applications

Track 3. Polymer and Flexible Photonics

Chairs: Anna Szerling, Lukasiewicz – IMIF, Poland
               Małgorzata Guzik, University of Wroclaw, Poland
               Somnath Mahato, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, Southern University of Science and Technology, China


  • Design approaches to increase bending flexibility of photonic structures
  • Stretchable photonics: lessons learnt from stretchable electronics
  • Polymer synthesis
  • Polymer for photovoltaics and light-emitting devices
  • Materials design considerations for flexible photonics
  • Transfer printing of semiconductor nanomembrane structures and devices
  • Monolithic integration on plastic substrates
  • Optical links for board-level interconnects
  • Broadband tunable photonic devices
  • Flexible detector/LED arrays

Track 4. Optical Subsystems, Systems and Networks

Chairs: Freddy Hongyan Fu, Tsinghua University, China
               Jianqiang Li, LightsAI Solution, China
               Qirui Huang, Huawei International Pte Ltd
               Xijia Zheng, Google LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, USA


  • Modelling, Analysis, Design, Implementation of Subsystems and systems
  • Subsystems for Modulation, Detection, Estimation
  • Subsystems for Wavelength, Space and Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, TDM)
  • Optical Wireless Communication
  • Sensing, Positioning, Navigation
  • Optical transmission systems and subsystems
  • Core/Metro Network and Subsystem
  • Optical Access Network and Subsystem
  • Data Center Network and Subsystem
  • Optical Networking for Computing Applications
  • Converged Network

Track 5. Microwave Photonics

Chairs: Hao Hu, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
               Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang University, China
               Zixiong Wang, Tianjin University, China
               Lei Deng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China


  • Photonics generation of microwave signals
  • Photonics processing of microwave signals
  • Photonic true time delay beamforming for phased array antennas
  • THz communications
  • Flexible waveform generation and propagation of millimeter-wavelength radio signals for 5G and beyond-5G applications
  • Tunable photonic filters with features suitable to microwave applications
  • Photonics-based measure of backscattered microwave signals
  • In-field implementation of photonics-based radar networks
  • Programmable microwave photonics
  • Quantum communication application

Track 6. Biophotonics and Optical Biomedicine

Chairs: Shuwen Zheng, University of Technology of Troyes, France
               Christophe Dujardin, University of Claude Bernard Lyon, France
               Michal Makowski, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Gina Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China


  • Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging: systems and applications
  • Optical coherence tomography: light sources, systems, and applications
  • Nonlinear microscopy, coherent Raman scattering microscopy, and high-resolution microscopy techniques
  • Photoacoustic tomography or microscopy, acousto-optical imaging
  • Optical trapping and manipulation, and their applications in biophotonics
  • Lasers, supercontinuum lasers, fiber lasers and their biomedical applications
  • Clinical and Translational Biophotonics
  • Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics
  • Cardiac Optogenetics
  • In-Vivo Label-Free Optical Spectroscopy

Track 7. Fiber-Based Technologies and Applications

Chairs: Yiyang Luo, Chongqing University, China
              Wenjun Ni, South-Central Minzu University, China
               Dominik Kowal, Lukasiewicz– PORT, Poland
               Abdul Kuddus Sheikh, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland


  • Micro/nano-structured fibers
  • Soft glass fibers
  • Crystal fibers
  • Fiber designs and theory
  • New processes for fiber manufacturing
  • Active fibers for high power lasing
  • Fibers for ultrafast lasers/supercontinuum generation
  • Fibers for high energy delivery
  • Fibers for sensing applications
  • Fibers for gyroscopes
  • Fibers for diagnostics and therapy
  • Fibers for wearable devices
  • Fibers for optical communication
  • Fibers for optical signal processing

Track 8. Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Chairs: Muhammad Danang Birowosuto, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Husin Alatas, IPB University, Indonesia
               Mateusz Slowikowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
               Landobasa Tobing, A*Star, Singapore


  • Plasmonics and nano-optics
  • Photothermal and photoelectric nanophotonics
  • Optical antennas and plasmonics-based devices
  • Plasmon-enhanced photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and solar fuels
  • Super-resolution imaging
  • Linear and nonlinear metamaterials
  • Chiral and hyperbolic metamaterials
  • Acoustic and thermal metamaterials
  • Metamaterial-based devices
  • Metasurfaces and flat optics
  • AI for metamaterial design

Track 9. Optical Sensors and Systems

Chairs: Krzysztof Rola, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               York Haemisch, Varex Imaging, Germany
               Dennis Schaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
               Hendradi Hardhienata, IPB University, Indonesia


  • Distributed optical fiber sensors based on Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering, and sensor networking
  • Discrete optical fiber sensors, and sensor array
  • Fiber Bragg grating sensors, long period grating sensors, tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors
  • Optical fiber interferometric sensors (Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Sagnac interferometer, etc.)
  • Optical fiber laser sensors
  • Specialty fiber optic sensors, Photonic crystal fiber sensors
  • Surface pasmon resonance fiber sensors
  • Micro/nanofiber sensors
  • Microwave photonics sensors
  • Silicon photonics sensors
  • Optical sensors for chemical, environmental, biological and medical applications
  • Optical sensors for structural health monitoring, security, defense and industrial applications
  • New elements (fibers, devices and subsystems), effects (e.g., plasmonics), technologies (including nanophotonics), materials (e.g., meta- and structured-materials) and signal processing (e.g., machine learning) for photonic sensing

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