Plenary Speaker

Jürgen Czarske

Competence Center for Biomedical Computational Laser Systems (BIOLAS), Dresden University of Technology

Title: Intelligent Photonics for Information Processing in Biomedical Imaging and Fiber Communication

Abstract:

The fusion of AI and photonics technologies will revolutionize practical applications such as biomedical microscopy, augmented reality (AR), and fiber communication. Theory-trained neural networks include the knowledge of physical systems such as waveguides for AR and multicore and multimode fibers for endomicroscopy. For AR, image reconstruction was performed at video rate, paving the way for real-world applications such as see-through camera. Fiber endomicroscopy exploits multiple Wiener filters towards single-shot, keyhole-access computational imaging, which is promising for brain diagnostics. We present also advancements for fiber-optical quantum communication, highlighting the IYQ 2025 of UNESCO. Current advances in intelligent photonics, with the synergy between theory-trained deep learning, metamaterials, holography, and quantum photonics, are highlighted for promising applications.