Invited/Plenary Talks

Plenary Talks

• Tom Nugent (PowerLight Technologies)
  
  “The Present and Future of Laser Power Beaming: Capabilities & Customers”
• Paul Leisher (Freedom Photonics)
  
  “Progress in diffraction-limited high power, high efficiency diode lasers operating at eyesafe wavelengths for wireless power transmission, optical communication, and LIDAR”

Special Talks

• Susumu Noda (Kyoto University)
  
  “High power operation of photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser”
• Yuji Tanabe (Aeterlink Corp.)
  
  “Practical Applications of Far-Field Wireless Power Transfer System “AirPlug™” ”

Invited Talks

• Simon Fafard (Broadcom)
  
  “Recent Laser Power Converter developments and applications for OWPT”
• J. B. Rosolem (Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações(CPQD))
  
  “Hollow Core Fibers for PoF Applications: a Practical View”
• Paul Crump (Ferdinand Braun Institut)
  
  “Power scaling in GaAs-based semiconductor lasers”
• Tetsuya Takeuchi (Meijo University)
  
  “Status and prospects of blue Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers”
• Carlos Algora (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid(Spain))
  
  “Status of Photovoltaic Laser Power Converters”
• Jun Wang (Sichuan University)
  
  “High-Performance Laser Power Converters”
• Jonathan Nydell (PHION Technologies Corp.)
  
  “Achieving Fault Tolerance in WPT Systems: Requirements and Solutions”
• Masato Ishino (Osaka University)
  
  “TBD”