/CLEO Conference 2026

CLEO Conference 2026

May 17 - 21, 2026 | Charlotte, NC, USA

The premier international forum for scientific and technical optics

Imec will be participating in CLEO 2026, the world’s premier international forum to learn about innovative advances, research and new technologies from the laser science industry. Join us to learn more on our latest breakthroughs and how to work with imec:  

PRESENTATION(S)

  • INVITED TALKS
    • JM4A.1. [Invited Talk] High-Harmonic Generation and an Emerging Inflection Point in Semiconductor Metrology
      Session: JM4A. Special Symposium: Terawatt to Petawatt Lasers for X-ray Generation, Particle Acceleration and Fusion II
      John Petersen, Scientific Director of Lithography, APD and Co-Lead of the AttoLab
    • STU2G.1. [Invited Talk] Perspectives on Heterogeneous Laser Integration in Silicon Photonics
      Session: STU2G. Scalable On-Chip Lasers for Photonic Integration
      Roel Baets, Emeritus Professor at Ghent University - imec
  • PAPERS
    • FTU1B.4. Collective Optonuclear Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in 229Th Nanophotonic Resonators
      Session: FTU1B. Integrated Quantum Photonics Metasurfaces and Nanoresonaters
      Karen Mamian1, Jan de Haan2, Toby Bi3,4, Swadheen Dubey5, Georgy A. Kazakov5, Kjeld A. Beeks5, Christoph Marquardt3,4, Sandro Kraemer6, Lino M. Pereira6, Pascal Del’Haye3,4, Kasper Van Gasse6, Thorsten Schumm5, Charles Roques-Carmes1
      1Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, 2Photonics Research Group, INTEC, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium, 3Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany, 4Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 5TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 6KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
    • STU1C.3. Vertical Silicon Organic Hybrid (SOH) Modulators for Record Low VπL of 375Vµm 
      Session: STU1C. Silicon Photonic Modulators
      Conglin Sun1,2, Michiel Debaets1,3, Minkyu Kim1, Chiara Marchese1, Adam Barzanji3,1, Peter Verheyen1, Pol Van Dorpe1, francky Catthoor4, Wim Bogaerts3,1, Joris Van Campenhout1, Christian Haffner1
      1Imec, Leuven, Belgium, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy Research unit Quantum Solid-State Physics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Photonics Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 4National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece
    • SW2E.2. Micro-transfer printed single-crystal thin-film sapphire on SiN waveguides
      Session: SW2E. Photonic Integration, Packaging and Manufacturing
      Arturo Fernández Gamez2,1, Tom Vandekerckhove2,1, Jan de Haan2,1, Amaryllis Verstraete2,1, bart kuyken2,1, Kasper Van Gasse2,1
      1Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, 2Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - imec, Ghent, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium
    • STH3E.4. On-chip UV-C Raman Spectroscopy using Fourier Imaging
      Session: STH3E. UV and Visible Sensing
      Chenming Su1,2, Roel Baets1,2, Nicolas L. Thomas1,2
      1Photonics Research Group, INTEC Department, Ghent University - imec, Gent, Belgium, 2Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
    • ATH4D.5. Towards Fully Integrated FMCW LiDAR Systems Based on Isolator-Free Lasers
      Session: ATH4D. Lidar Miniaturization & Space Measurements
      Javier Perez Santacruz1,2, Jac Romme2, Xuebing Zhang2, Peter Girouard2, Esteban Venialgo Araujo2, Marcus Dahlem1, Ruud Oldenbeuving2, Dongjae Shin2
      1Imec, Leuven, Belgium, 2Imec NL, Einhoven, Netherlands
    • ATH4C.6. Linear Spectral Analysis of a High-Q MRR Sensor via 30400nm/s Nonlinear Laser Sweeping
      Session: ATH4C. Quantum Photonics and Sensing
      Xuebing Zhang1, Wenjing Tian1, Peter Girouard1, Megha Khokhar1, Javier Perez Santacruz1,2, Joonyoung Kim1,2, Hsiao-Lun Wang2, Sulakshna Kumari2, Negin Golshani2, Neha Singh2, Maliheh Ramezani2, Maumita Chakrabarti2, Philippe Absil2, Dongjae Shin1, Ruud Oldenbeuving1
      1PICSYS, Imes NL, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2Imec, Leuven, Belgium.
  • POSTER SESSION
    • JTU.79. Photonic physical unclonable functions for co-integration of security and computing functionalities
      Session: JTU1. Poster Session I
      Fabio Pavanello1, Niklas Pirnay5, Agraj Yadav1, Julien Poette1, Federico Marchesin2, Matěj Hejda4, Tzamn Melendez Carmona3, Alessandro Savino3, Stefano Di Carlo3, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh4, Peter Bienstman2, Jean-Pierre Seifert5
      1Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble INP, CROMA, Grenoble, France, 2Photonics Research Group, Dept. of Information Technology, Ghent University-imec, Ghent, Belgium, 3Dept. of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, 4Large Scale Integrated Photonics, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, Diegem, Belgium, 5Security in telecommunications, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • JTU.123. Few-photon Radio-Frequency Losses in Organic Electro-optical Materials
      Session: JTU1. Poster Session I
      Michiel Debaets1,2, Conglin Sun1,3, Ioannis Petrides1, Dries Van Thourhout2, Christian Haffner1, Michele Merla1,4
      1Imec, Leuven, Belgium, 2INTEC, UGent, Ghent, Belgium, 3Solid-state Physics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 4Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy