OFC 2026 announcement

We’re thrilled to announce that ΗΑΕΤΑΕ team will be participating in OFC 2026 next week in Los Angeles, California, USA, contributing two papers and one poster.


1️⃣ Paper: Photonic Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks Utilizing SOA-Based SPM Broadening and Filtering Learnable Activations

Presenting Author: Themistoklis Chrysostomidis

All Authors: Stefanos Kovaios, Themistoklis Chrysostomidis, Dimitrios Spanos, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikolaos Passalis, Charis Mesaritakis, Adonis Bogris, Anastasios Tefas, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Nikos Pleros.

Session: Photonic AI Computing (W3C.3)

📅 March 18, 2026 🕝 2:45–3:00 PM (PDT) 📍 Room 408A



2️⃣ Paper: Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) using Photonic Neural Network-assisted Quantization

Presenting Author: Antonios Prapas

All Authors: Antonios Prapas, Georgios Tsamis, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, David Lazovsky, Nikos Pleros.

Session: Photonic AI Computing (W3C)

📅 March 18, 2026 🕝 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)📍 Location: Room 408A



3️⃣ Poster: Photonic Deep Learning Using In-Situ Optical Backpropagation for Training Photonic Linear Neural Layers

Presenting Author: Odysseas Asimopoulos

All Authors: Odysseas Asimopoulos, Stefanos Kovaios, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Loukia Avramelou, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Nikos Pleros.

Session: Poster Session II (Th2A)

📅 March 19, 2026 🕝 10:30 AM 📍 Petree Hall C


🌟 Don’t miss the HAETAE project press release in Science|Business!

Discover how an international team of scientists -from Europe and Korea- is developing next-generation AI hardware that runs on light instead of electricity, promising faster, greener, and more secure digital services for the future.

Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/guR-nurw


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Newsletter #2

Workshop “Photonics in AI: Challenges and Applications”

We are excited to co-organise the workshop “Photonics in AI: Challenges and Applications”, co-located with OECC 2026, together with our EU–ROK partner project NEHIL, on 🗓 Sunday, June 28, 2026, in 📍 Busan, South Korea.

Key topics of this workshop include:


📌 Technology enablers

  • Emerging photonic device technologies for neuromorphic architectures
  • MEMS and phase-change devices for reconfigurable photonic systems
  • Heterogeneous integration of InP with Silicon Photonics platforms
  • Novel materials: Barium Titanate (BTO), SiOC, MoS₂, and graphene-based modulators and detectors
  • Advances in on-chip photonic interconnects

📌 Architectures and applications

  • Architectures and applications
  • Photonic implementations of spiking neural networks and analog optical computing
  • Optical neural network accelerators for AI inference and training
  • Photonic LIDAR and signal processing systems leveraging neuromorphic architectures
  • Cross-layer optimization and co-design between algorithms, hardware, and photonic circuits

We look forward to engaging discussions and strengthening international collaboration at the intersection of photonics and AI!

🔗 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eGwK3S2N


HAETAE booth on PIC international

HAETAE booth on PIC international is now live ! Meet us at PIC international for a chat about photonic computing or to know more about our new project HAETAE in collaboration with Akhetonics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) WinPhoS, Research Group imec, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) , Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology