Friday, October 10, 2025
Session 1 (9.00 – 10.30)
| 09.00 – 09.40 | Plenary I : Optical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Multimode Photonic Systems | Demetrios Christodoulides |
| Keynote Talks: History of Photonics in Greece | ||
| 09.40 – 10.05 | Keynote I : Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη, στην ανέμη τυλιγμένη…στην Αθήνα, στην Ελλάδα | Hercules Avramopoulos |
| 10.05 – 10.30 | Keynote II : Optics in Computers | Demetri Psaltis |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 2 (11.00 – 12.55)
| 11.00 – 11.20 | Invited I : Thermal Photonics for Energy and IR Lighting | Georgia Papadaki |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Using structured pin-like beams to mitigate scintillations in strong atmospheric turbulence [PDF] | Nikolaos K. Efremidis |
| 11.35 – 11.50 | Structured light in free space optical links: A revisit of performance evaluation methods [PDF] | P. G. Michailidis, A. Brimis, D. G. Papazoglou |
| 11.50 – 12.05 | Laser-Based Fabrication Strategies for High-Resolution and Functional Biomimetic Structures [PDF] | G. Tsibidis, E. Stratakis |
| 12.05 – 12.20 | Use of neural nets and gradient descent algorithms in THz time domain spectroscopy [PDF] | V. Apostolopoulos, T. Smith, A. Latifi, N.T. Klokkou, B. Beddoes, J. Gorecki, G. Barmparis |
| 12.20 – 12.35 | The exact 3D-Maxwell one-way wave equation [PDF] | Maria Bazini, Maria Barlou, Konstantinos G. Baskourelos and Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis |
| 12.35 – 12.55 | Invited II : Laser-Induced Forward Transfer: Progress and Future Directions | Ioanna Zergioti |
| 12:55 – 14:15 | LUNCH BREAK |
Session 3 (14.15 – 16.10)
| 14.15 – 14.35 | Invited III : HPhos: Innovative entrepreneurship and scientific research for the development of photonics products and services in Greece [PDF] | Elias Hontzopoulos |
| 14.35 – 14.50 | Neuromorphic and Quantum Integrated Photonic Physical Unclonable Functions for Security Applications [PDF] | Charis Mesaritakis, George Sarantoglou, Kostas Sozos,Adonis Bogris |
| 14.50 – 15.05 | Application Awareness and Traffic Classification in Optical Data Center Networks [PDF] | Georgios Drainakis and Peristera Baziana |
| 15.05 – 15.20 | Quantum Cryptography beyond Key Distribution [PDF] | Georgios M. Nikolopoulos |
| 15.20 – 15.35 | Driven Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators: Complex Dynamics and Applications | Yannis Kominis |
| 15.35 – 15.50 | Quantum Metasurfaces for Enhancement of Reverse Saturable Absorption | I. Katsantonis, D. Petrosyan and M. Kafesaki |
| 15.50 – 16.10 | Invited IV : Modelling of optoelectronic materials & devices [PDF] | Eleftherios Lidorikis |
| 16.10 – 17.40 | POSTER SESSION AND COFFEE |
| 17.40 – 20.00 | General Assembly ELEF |
| Elections ELEF | |
| 20.00 – 22.00 | DINNER |
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Session 1 (9.00 – 10.30)
| 09.00 – 09.40 | Plenary III : High Power Fibre Lasers: Building with Light [PDF] | Michalis Zervas |
| Keynote Talks: History of Photonics in Greece | ||
| 09.40 – 10.05 | Keynote III : Photonics as a tool for creating economic value: what is the path to the future? | Georges Kotrotsios |
| 10:05 – 10.30 | Keynote IV : From the first Coherent Systems of mid-eighties to the Quantum Communications and Networks [PDF] | Dimitris Syvridis |
| 10:30 – 10.50 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 2 (10.50 – 12.35)
| 10.50 – 11.10 | Invited V : Si3N4 Photonic and Plasmo-Photonic Integrated Circuits for Photonic Neural Networks and Sensors [PDF] | Konstantinos Vyrsokinos |
| 11:10 – 11:25 | Optical Biosensors at the Point-of-Need: From Pioneering Foundations to Next-Gen Applications | Eleni Makarona, Ioannis Raptis, P. Petrou, S. Kakabakos, K.Misiakos, N. Papanikolaou |
| 11.25 – 11.40 | Photonics in Suturing Procedures | Vasilis Sarakatsianos, Ivan Chapalo, Maria Konstantaki, Theodore Manouras, Maria Vamvakaki, Anastasios Charonis, Stavros Pissadakis |
| 11.40 – 11.55 | Planar microcavities [PDF] | Konstantinos Daskalakis |
| 11.55 – 12.10 | Can 2D materials enable Q-switched nanophotonic lasers? [PDF] | T. Christopoulos, J. Hizanidis, G. Nousios, E. E. Kriezis and O. Tsilipakos |
| 12.10 – 12.25 | Laser Written Hybrid Integrated Circuits in Silica Platform: Limitations & Approaches towards Scalable Quantum Computing & Sensing Devices [PDF] | Christos Riziotis |
| 12.25 – 12.45 | Invited VI : Beyond Spectra: Power Eigenchannels in non-Hermitian Photonics [PDF] | Konstantinos Makris |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | LUNCH BREAK |
Session 3 (13.45 – 15.40)
| 13.45 – 14.05 | Invited VII : Label-Free Two-Photon Imaging of Cellular Metabolism and Matrix Remodeling in Living Tissues [PDF] | Irene Georgakoudi |
| 14:05 – 14:20 | Ultrafast filamentation driven photonics engineering in the bulk of semiconductors [PDF] | Stelios Tzortzakis |
| 14.20 – 14.35 | THz graphene plasmons with effects enhanced by topological photonic states [PDF] | Anna C. Tasolamprou |
| 14.35 – 14.50 | Controlling Light Storage by Fictitious Magnetic Fields [PDF] | Georgios A. Siviloglou |
| 14.50 – 15.05 | Multifunctional Ultrafast Metasurfaces: All-Optical Modulation of Amplitude, Phase, and Polarization with Graphene Nanoribbons [PDF] | Nikolaos Matthaiakakis, Sotiris Droulias and George Kakarantzas |
| 15.05 – 15.20 | Laser-surface processing for green Hydrogen energy storage [PDF] | I. Poimenidis, A. Klini, M. Konsolakis, S.D. Moustaizis, P. A. Loukakos |
| 15.20 – 15.40 | Invited VIII: Overcoming Phototoxicity with Photon-Sparse Microscopy [PDF] | Andreas Vasdekis |
| 15.40 – 16.10 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 4 (16.10 – 17.00)
| 16.10 – 16.30 | Keynote V: Tribute to Costas Soukoulis | Eleftherios Economou |
| 16.30 – 16.40 | Announcements of Awards: Costas Soukoulis Award and Best Poster Award | |
| 16.40 – 17.30 | Announcement regarding ELEF – Closing Ceremony |