Dr. Hiroyuki Ishii, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

"Monolithic tunable lasers for digital coherent communications"

Prof. Jesper Mørk, Technical University of Denmark

"Semiconductor nanolasers"

Prof. Susumu Noda, Kyoto University

"Progress of photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers and their scalability for single-mode operation"

Dr. Bei Shi, UC Santa Barbara

"III-V Quantum Dot Lasers on Silicon by Selective Area Heteroepitaxy"

Dr. Matthew Sysak, Ayar Labs

"High Wavelength Count Laser Sources for WDM CMOS Optical Interconnects"

Dr. Augustinas Vizbaras, UAB Brolis semiconductors

"GaSb/Si laser spectrometer-on-chip technology for sensing applications"