Program

Thursday, October 1st, 2026

Session 1 (14.00 – 16.05) -Chair: Manolis Stratakis (FORTH)

14.00 – 14.10	Opening / Welcome Talk	Demetri Psaltis / Petros Koumoutsakos
14.10 – 14.50	Plenary I : Beyond Silica’s limits: Novel Photonic Technologies for Future Communications	Periklis Petropoulos (Uo Southampton)
14.50 – 15.15	Keynote I : Resources and applications for advanced quantum networking	Eleni Diamanti (CNRS)
15.15 – 15.30	Reservoir Computing with Data-Driven Photonic Oscillators	Yannis Kominis (NTUA)
15.30 – 15.45	Optics-Informed Photonic Neural Networks for Ηigh-Speed Optical Computing	Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios (AUTH)
15.45 – 16.05	Invited I : Neuromorphic Opto-Electronic Devices for Switching and Computing	Nikos Farmakidis (Uo Exeter)
16.05 – 16.30	COFFEE BREAK

Session 2 (16.30 – 19.00) – Industrial – Chair: Konstantinos Vyrsokinos (AUTH)

16.30 – 16.45	Photonics in Manufacturing: A use case from solar-thermal sector	Ilias Chontzopoulos (PRIME Laser Technology)
16:45 – 17:00	Democratizing photonics: Challenges and opportunities in a global market under major transformations’	Giorgos Violakis (Componous)
17.00 – 17.15	PhosPrint: In Vivo Laser Printing from Clinical Translation to Market adoption	Ioanna Zergioti (PhosPrint/ICCS/NTUA)
17.15 – 17.30	Optical transceivers for flying datacenters	Leontios Stampoulidis (LEO Space Photonics)
17.30 – 17.45	Measuring Nanometers to Millimeters: Optical Metrology for Semiconductor and Industrial Manufacturing	Ioannis Raptis (ThetaMetrisis)
17.45 – 18.00	Unlocking Real-Time Biology with Photonic Sensing	Dimosthenis Spasopoulos (Lightense)
18.00 – 18.15	QRBIT: Engineering Laser & Quantum Communications for Space	Giannis Giannoulis (QRBIT)
18.15 – 18.30	Biomimetic: Direct laser micro-/nano-machining, surface texturing and functionalization solutions for Industry and Academia	Emmanuel Stratakis (Biomimetic)
18:30 – 18.45	Lasers and control electronics for FMCW sensing	Christos Kouloumentas (Optagon)
18:45 – 19:00	Chip-Scale Photonic Sensors for Scalable Methane Emissions Monitoring: From Research to Deployment	George Giamougiannis (Microsoft Research / Methairion)
19:00 – 21:00	WELCOME RECEPTION AND SOCIAL DRINK

Friday, October 2nd, 2026

Session 1 (9.00 – 10.25) – Chair: Nikos Pleros (AUTH)

09.00 – 09:40	Plenary II : Optical and RF signal processing with programmable photonics	Wim Bogaerts (IMEC / Uo Ghent)
09.40 – 10.05	Keynote II : Nonlinear Photonic Materials Engineering and THz Applications	Stelios Tzortzakis (FORTH)
10.05 – 10.25	Invited II : Ultrafast Heterogeneously Integrated Membrane Lasers for AI Datacenter Scaling and Neuromorphic Computing	Nikolaos-Pantelis Diamantopoulos (NTT)
10:25 – 11:00	COFFEE BREAK

Session 2 (11.00 – 12:55) – Chair: Yannis Papadopoulos (NTUA)

11.00 – 11:20	Invited III : Advanced modulation formats for short-haul optical communications	Ioannis Roudas (Montanta State Univ)
11.20 – 11.35	Field Demonstration of QoT-Aware SDN-Controlled Coherent Transmission over a Hybrid Fiber/FSO Link	Dimitrios Apostolopoulos (ICCS/NTUA)
11.35 – 11.50	Microwave Silicon Photonics Processors in support of wireless signal processing	Christos Vagionas (AUTH)
11.50 – 12.05	Controlling the Scattering Response of Cylindrical Scatterers through Time-Modulation	Maria Kafesaki (FORTH)
12.05 – 12.20	From Sunlight to Synapses: Perovskites Under the Cretan Sun and the Light-Programmable Devices They Inspired	Emmanuel Kymakis (HMU)
12.20 – 12.35	Scalable Hybrid Optical Data Center Networks with AI-Aware Resource Allocation	Betty Baziana (UTH)
12.35 – 12.55	Invited IV : Multimodal fiber-based neurophotonic interfaces	Christos Markos (DTU)
12:55 – 14:15	LUNCH BREAK

Session 3 (14.15 – 16.00) – Industrial Session – Chair: Adonis Bogris (UWA)

14.15 – 14.30	Enhancing network sensing capabilities via modern optical infrastructure	Ioannis Chochliouros (COSMOTE)
14.30 – 14.45	Optical Networks for AI Datacenters	Paraskevas Bakopoulos (NVIDIA)
14:45 – 15.00	TBA	Nikos Bamiedakis (Marvell)
15:00 – 15.15	Theon Sensors, a Greek industrial success	Eirini Kakkava (THEON)
15:15 – 15.30	Photonic Integrated Circuits for Next-Generation Coherent Transceivers	Despoina Petousi (Adtran)
15:30 – 15.45	Electronic–photonic co-design for AI-era optical interconnects	Christos Tsekrekos (Cspeed)
15:45 – 16:00	Advanced Nanomanufacturing Beyond Cleanroom Lithography: Opportunies for Photonics	Nikos Kehayas (Nanotypos)
16:00 – 17.45	POSTER SESSION and COFFEE BREAK

Session 4 (17.45 – 20.00 – PHOS General Assembly)

17.45 – 18.00	Review of 1st Year
18:00 – 18:10	Working Group Dissemination/Communication
18.10 – 18.20	Working Group Education/Training
18.20 – 18.30	Working Group Scientific Thematic Area I
18.30 – 18.40	Working Group Scientific Thematic Area II
18.40 – 18.50	Working Group Scientific Thematic Area III
18.50 – 19.00	Working Group Scientific Thematic Area IV
19.00 – 19.10	Working Group Scientific Thematic Area V
19.10 – 20.00	General Assembly
20:00 – 22:00	DINNER

Saturday, October 3rd, 2026

Session 1 (Keynote Talks 9.00-10.30) – Chair: Irene Georgakoudi (DU)

09.00 – 09:25	Keynote III : Single-Cycle Photonics	Eleftherios Goulielmakis (Uo Rostock, Germany)
09.25 – 09.50	Keynote IV : Label-free biomolecular detection using optoacoustics	Vasilis Ntziachristos (TU Munich, Germany)
09.50 – 10.10	Invited V : Spectrum of Life: Rainbow NIRS for Brain Metabolic and Haemodynamic Mapping	Ilias Tachtsidis (UCL)
10.10 – 10.30	Invited VI : Fiber-to-the-Tree: Optical Fiber Sensors for Precision Agriculture	Stavros Pissadakis (FORTH)
10:30 – 11:00	COFFEE BREAK

Session 2 (11.00-12.55) – Chair: Ioanna Zergioti (NTUA)

11.00 – 11:20	Invited VII : Laser processing of materials and devices for photonics, optoelectronics, and smart surfaces	Maria Kandyla (NHRF)
11.20 – 11.35	Microwave Frequency Fiber Interferometry in Subsea Cables for Deep-Ocean Geophysical Monitoring	Adonis Bogris (UWA)
11.35 – 11.50	Optical Fiber Sensing for Sustainable Crude Oil Transportation	Mary Konstantaki (FORTH)
11.50 – 12.05	Engineering Optical Materials, Structures and Devices for Sensing, Defence, Biomedical and Quantum Applications	Christos Riziotis (NHRF)
12.05 – 12.20	Nanomaterials Platform for Plasmonic Applications	Spyridon Kassavetis (AUTH)
12.20 – 12.35	Digital Laser-Induced Forward Transfer of graphene and hBN heterostructures for integrated electronic and photonic devices	Katerina Magoula (NTUA)
12.35 – 12.55	Invited VIII : Harvesting energy from the Cold Universe: The missing piece in the renewables puzzle?	Papakonstantinou Ioannis (UCL)
12:55 – 14:15	LUNCH BREAK

Session 3 (14.15-16.10) – Chair: Amalia Miliou (AUTH)

14.15 – 14.35	Invited IX : Light as a Tool: Processing of Materials Across Three Frontiers – Nanostructuring, Defect Engineering and Light-Induced Chemistry	Nikos Kalfagiannis (UoI)
14.35 – 14.50	Engineering optical thermalization through lattice geometry, topology, and symmetry	Nikolaos Efremidis (FORTH)
14.50 – 15.05	Ultrathin free-space lasers based on broken-symmetry metasurfaces and MoS2/WSe2 heterobilayers	Odysseas Tsilipakos (NHRF)
15.05 – 15.20	SrTiO₃ Perovskite Thin Films for Dielectric and Photonic Applications	Argyro Klini (FORTH)
15.20 – 15.35	Engineering and Enhancing Nonreciprocal Wave Propagation in Photonic Structures	Anna Tasolamprou (UoA)
15.35 – 15.50	Ultrafast All-Optical Control through Asymmetric Thermal Dynamics in Plasmonic Dimers via Polarization-Selective Excitation	Nikos Matthaiakakis (NCSR Demokritos)
15.50 – 16.10	Invited X : Engineering quasi-dark resonances in photonic dielectric metasurfaces for lasing and sensing applications	Dimitrios Zografopoulos (AUTH)
16:10 – 16:30	COFFEE BREAK

Session 4 (16.30 – 18.00) – Chairs: Manolis Stratakis (FORTH), Nikos Pleros (AUTH)

16.30 – 16.50	Invited XI: Topological rainbow trapping	Kosmas Tsakmakidis (NKUA, Costas Soukoulis Award Winner 2025)
16.50 – 17.10	Announcements of Awards: Kostas Soukoulis Award and Best Poster Award	Elefterios Lidorikis
17.10 – 17.40	Presentation of Kostas Soukoulis Award Winner
17.40 – 18.00	Announcement regarding ELEF – Next Year Conference – Closing Ceremony