The academic program is divided by thematics into sessions. The academic program consist of presentations selected through submissions, but also invited talks. Detailed program with the times of the presentations will be updated to ConfTool and on this page. Each presentation is 20min long (15+5min for questions.)
OPD2026 Academic program themes – See full descriptionsHERE.
Sensing and imaging
Novel photonic devices
Materials and processing
Fundamental photonics (classical and quantum)
Session 1: Sensing and Imaging Wednesday 27th May starting at 10.40.
10:40am – 11:00am
Quantum sensing and imaging in mid-IR by photon pair generation in double-resonant polariton system, Vladislav Shiskov, Aalto University
11:00am – 11:20am
Material analysis with time-resolved spectral mapping and luminescence imaging, Saara kaski, Aalto University
11:20am – 11:40am
Identifying and Mitigating Instrumental Bias in Fiber-Optic Coherent Lidar for CO₂ Sensing, Nikita Kikilich, Tampere University
11:40am – 12:00pm
Reconstructing multiple initial pressure and speed of sound distributions simultaneously in photoacoustic tomography, Miika Suhonen, University of Eastern Finland
Session 2: Novel Photonic Devices Wednesday 27th May starting at 15.45.
3:45pm – 4:05pm
Polaritons as a Photonic Testbed for Advancing Organic Optoelectronics, Konstantinos Daskalakis, Turku University
4:05pm – 4:25pm
High Quality factor van der Waals microcavities for ultralow-loss nonlinear photonics, Jingnan Yang, Aalto University
4:25pm – 4:45pm
Cross-Phase Modulation in Time-varying epsilon-near-zero metasurface, Rakesh Dhama, Tampere University
4:45pm – 5:05pm
Three-color vortex comb interferometer, Santeri Larnimaa, University of Helsinki
Session 3: Materials and Processing Thursday 28th May starting at 10.40.
10:40am – 11:00am
Excimer laser micro structuring setup using a micro mirror array as programmable mask, Sebastian Buettner, Laserinstitut Hochschule Mittweida (LHM)
11:00am – 11:20am
Live-Shaping of Hydrogel Thin Films with Light, Matias Paatelainen, Tampere University
11:20am – 11:40am
Area-selective ALD as dielectric for top-gated GFET, Maryam Naderpour, University of Jyväskylä
11:40am – 12:00pm
Towards multimodal sensing with single-crystal diamond needles, Elena Filonenko, University of Eastern Finland
Session 4: Fundamental photonics Thursday 28th May starting at 14.45.
2:45pm – 3:05pm
Nonlinear photonics with anapoles and bound states in the continuum in III-V nanostructures, Radoslaw Kolkowski, Aalto University
3:05pm – 3:25pm
Beyond Polariton Filtering: New Pathways for Polariton-Mediated Excitation, Ville Tiainen, University of Jyväskylä
3:25pm – 3:45pm
Light emission from a dipole in a lossy and graded-index surrounding, Farzaneh Adibzadeh, Åbo Akademi
3:45pm – 4:05pm
Flat Bands from Diffraction in Periodic Systems, Joel Lehikoinen, Aalto University
These sessions are selected from the submissions received, the Academic Program committee will select oral presentations for four topical sessions, and the rest will be available at the poster session. From Industrial applications topic, there is also a possibility to move oral presentations to Industrial program if there are suitable slots available.