Jena LIGHT will take place from 1-3 December 2025 and features a program of talks, poster presentations and lab visits as well as social and cultural events.
Tobias Kippenberg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) tba
13:15-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-16:00
Session 2: LNOI for Quantum Applications
Laura Padberg (University of Paderborn) Thin-film lithium niobate for integrated quantum optics
Robert Chapman (ETH Zürich) Integrated quantum photonics on thin film lithium niobate
Yen Hung Chen (National Central University Taoyuan) Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonic Sources and Circuits for Quantum Technology
Reinhard Geiss (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF) tba
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:30
Session 3: Contributed I
(Speakers tba)
17:30-20:00
Posters and Pizza
Tuesday, 02.12.2025
9:00-11:00
Session 4: Novel Materials
Alex Demkov (La Luce Cristallina) Barium titanate: the next generation in integrated silicon photonics
Tim Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin & Ferdinand-Braun-Institut) Integrated Quantum Photonics with the AlGaN/AlN–Diamond platform
David de Felipe (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) PIC Technologies for Communication, Sensing and Quantum
Sebastian Schmitt (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF) From Material Property to Quantum Functionality: Tailoring Nonlinear Platforms for Photonic Integration
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30
Session 5: Contributed II
(Speakers tba)
12:30-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-15:30
Session 6: Advanced Topics
Florenta Costache (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems) Perspectives on Photonic Platforms: Liquid-Crystal Devices and Silicon Nitride-Based Sensing
Andreas Fognini (Single Quantum) tba
Richard Zeltner (Menlo Systems GmbH) Emerging applications of integrated photonics in high-precision metrology
Jens Müller (Ilmenau University of Technology) Glass- and Ceramic-based interposer technologies for photonic electronic co-integration
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30
Session 7: Contributed III
(Speakers tba)
19:00-22:00
Evening Event
Wednesday, 03.12.2025
9:00-11:00
Session 8: Applications of PICs
Eva Peters (QuiX Quantum B.V.) tba
Anna Selzer (Akhetonics GmbH) All-Optical Computing - Analog, Digital, Quantum