Tokyo time	Tuesday, March 29	Wednesday, March 30	Thursday, March 31
9:30 ‑ 9:45	Opening Session		S8: Optical Communications for Cubesats/Small Sats I
9:45 ‑ 10:30	S1: Plenary Session
10:30 ‑ 10:35		Workshop
10:35 ‑ 10:45			Coffee Break
10:45 ‑ 11:45			S9: Optical Communications for Cubesats/Small Sats II
11:45 ‑ 11:50	Lunch		S9: Optical Communications for Cubesats/Small Sats II
11:50 ‑ 12:00			Lunch
12:00 ‑ 13:00		Lunch	Lunch
13:00 ‑ 14:00	S2: Mission and Demonstration Status Updates	S5: Space Optical Communication Systems I	S10: Space Optical Communication Systems III
14:00 ‑ 14:10	Coffee Break		Coffee Break
14:10 ‑ 14:20	S3: Satellite QKD missions I		S11: Optical Feederlink Technologies
14:20 ‑ 14:30		Coffee Break
14:30 ‑ 15:10		S6: OGS and Site Diversity Technologies
15:10 ‑ 15:15			Coffee Break
15:15 ‑ 15:20	Coffee Break		Coffee Break
15:20 ‑ 15:25	Coffee Break		S12: Satellite QKD Missions II
15:25 ‑ 15:45	S4: Atmospheric Turbulence – Measurement and Demonstrations
15:45 ‑ 15:55		Coffee Break
15:55 ‑ 16:35		S7: Space Optical Communication Systems II
16:35 ‑ 16:45			Coffee Break
16:45 ‑ 17:00			Closing Session/Award Ceremony
17:00 ‑ 17:10			Closing Session/Award Ceremony
17:10 ‑ 17:25

(timezone is JST, Japan Standard Time)

Tuesday, March 29

9:30 – 9:45: Opening Session

Chair: Dimitar R. Kolev (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Opening address

Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Welcome address: Naoto Kadowaki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
Guest speech: Masato Ota (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan)

9:45 – 11:45: S1: Plenary Session

Chair: Hamid Hemmati (Viasat Inc., USA)

(Invited) Latest Status of the CCSDS Optical Communications Working Group: Bernard Edwards (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
(Invited) Optical Communications for Human Space Exploration-Status of Space Terminal Development for the Artemis II Crewed Mission to the Moon: Bryan Robinson, Farzana Khatri and Mark Padula (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Steven Horowitz (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA); Michael Bay (Bay Engineering Innovations, USA); Jonathon King (NASA Johnson Space Center, USA)
(Invited) Optical high-speed data network in space – an update on HydRON’s System Concept: Christopher A Vasko (European Space Agency & Aurora Technology B. V., The Netherlands); Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou, Josep Maria Perdigues Armengol, Guray Acar, Monica Politano, Wael El-Dali, Harald Hauschildt and Carlo Elia (ESA, The Netherlands)
(Invited) LUCAS: The second-generation GEO satellite-based space data-relay system using optical links: Shiro Yamakawa and Yohei Satoh, Takamasa Itahashi, Yutaka Takano, Shintaroh Hoshi and Yuko Miyamoto (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan); Masahiko Sugiho, Takeshi Yoshizawa, Yusuke Koizumi, Masakazu Yukizane and Sota Suzuki (Space Systems Division, NEC Corporation, Japan); Hiroki Kohata (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan)
(Invited) Space Development Agency Optical Communications: Progress Update and OCT Standard v3.0: Michael Butterfield (Space Development Agency, USA)
(Invited) DSTG Laser Satellite Communications – Current Activities and Future Outlook: Kerry Mudge, Bradley Clare and Elisa Jager, Vladimir Devrelis (Defence Science Technology Group, Australia); Francis Bennet, Michael Copeland, Nick Herrald and Ian Price (Australian National University, Australia); Gottfried Lechner (University of South Australia, Australia); Jeewani Kodithuwakkuge, Joseph Magarelli, Dharmapriya Bandara, Christopher Peck, Monique Hollick, Paul Alvino, Peter Camp-Smith, Barbara Szumylo and Agam Raj and Kenneth Grant (Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia)

11:45 – 13:00: Lunch

13:00 – 14:00: S2: Mission and Demonstration Status Updates

Chair: Bernard Edwards (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)

Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Methodologies from the LCRD Optical Communication System AI&T: Bernard Edwards (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA); Patricia Randazzo (Integrity Applications Inc, USA); Nidhin Babu (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA); Kendall Murphy (ASRC Federal, USA); Shane Albright (NASA – THE HAMMERS COMPANY INC., USA); Nick Cummings (NASA – Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., USA); Javier Ocasio-Perez, William Potter and Russell Roder (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA); Sharon Zehner (NASA – ASRC FEDERAL SYSTEM SOLUTIONS, USA); Ricardo Salah (NASA – Alcyon Technical Services (JV), LLC, USA); Jonathan Woodward (NASA – Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., USA)
Recent R&D activities of the Lunar – the Earth optical communication system in Japan: Tomohiro Araki (JAXA, Japan); Hideaki Kotake (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology & The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yoshihiko Saito, Hiroyuki Tsuji and Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Katsumi Makino, Masaru Koga and Naoki Sato (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan)
Status Update on Laser Communication Activities in NICT: Dimitar R. Kolev, Koichi Shiratama, Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Yoshihiko Saito, Yasushi Munemasa, Junichi Nakazono, Phuc V. Trinh, Hideaki Kotake, Hiroo Kunimori, Toshihiro Kubo-oka, Tetsuharu Fuse, Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
The communication experiment result of Small Optical Link for ISS (SOLISS) to the first commercial optical ground station in Greece: Hiroaki Yamazoe (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan); Kyohei Iwamoto (Sony Computer Science Laboratories & Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan); Hennes Henniger (KSAT, Norway)

14:00 – 14:10: Coffee Break

14:10 – 15:15: S3: Satellite QKD missions I

Chair: Florian Moll (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

(Invited) Satellite-based QKD for Global Quantum Cryptographic Network Construction: Atsushi Mamiya, Kentaro Tanaka and Saori Yokote (SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Japan); Masahide Sasaki and Mikio Fujiwara (NICT, Japan); Masaki Tanaka (NEC Corporation, Japan); Hideaki Sato (Toshiba Corporation Corporate Research&Development Center, Japan); Yusuke Katagiri (The Japan Research Institute, Limited. (JRI), Japan)
QKD and optical terminals for Canada’s Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat): Hugh Podmore (Honeywell Aerospace, Canada)
A CubeSat platform for space-based quantum key distribution: Srihari Sivasankaran, Clarence Liu, Moritz Mihm, Ali Anwar, Riadh Rebhi and Alexander Ling (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)
CARAMUEL: The future of Space Quantum Key Distribution in GEO: Antonio Abad (C/Anabel Segura 11 – Edificio Albatros 4 floor & Hispasat, Spain); Angel Alvaro Sanchez (Thales Alenia Space, Spain)

15:15 – 15:25: Coffee Break

15:25 – 17:00: S4: Atmospheric Turbulence – Measurement and Demonstrations

Chair: Phuc V. Trinh (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

WITHDRAWN (Invited) Design and validation of a new coding and synchronization layer for space optical communications: Géraldine Artaud (CNES, France); Alain Thomas (Safran Data Systems, France); Jean-Frederic Chouteau, Lyonel Barthe, Benjamin Gadat and Thomas Anfray (Airbus Defence and Space, France); Mathieu Llauro (SAFRAN Electronics & Defence, France)
Bit Error Rate Performance of a Laser Ground-to-Satellite Uplink Communications Systems in the Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence and Loss: Larry B Stotts (Science and Technology Associates & Stotts Consulting, USA)
Optical Transmitter Diversity with Phase-Division in Bit-Time: Christian Fuchs, Dirk Giggenbach and Ramon Mata Calvo (German Aerospace Center, Germany); Werner Rosenkranz (University of Kiel, Germany)
Experimental Setup for Single Pixel Imaging of Turbulent Wavefronts and Speckle-Based Phase Retrieval: Oliver J Pitts (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Michael Taylor (Formerly McMaster University); Mohamadreza Pashazanoosi and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada); Antony Orth and Costel Flueraru (National Research Council of Canada, Canada)
WITHDRAWN Photonic Lantern Based Wavefront Sensing for Daytime High Photon Efficiency Communications and Astronomy: Martijn Dresscher (TNO, The Netherlands)
Turbulence mitigation via Multi-Plane Light Conversion and coherent optical combination on a 200 m and a 10 km link: Antonin Billaud (Cailabs, France); Andrew Reeves (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Adeline Orieux (Cailabs, France); Helawae Friew Kelemu (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Fausto Gomez-Agis, Stephane Bernard, Thibault Michel and David Allioux (Cailabs, France); Juraj Poliak and Ramon Mata Calvo (German Aerospace Center, Germany); Olivier Pinel (Cailabs, France)

Wednesday, March 30

10:30 – 12:00: Workshop

Chair: Dimitar Kolev (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Recent research and development of space communications at NICT

Hiroyuki Tsuji (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Modelling of optical refractive index structure parameter using radiosonde data: Florian Quatresooz, Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, Claude Oestges (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

SGL Activities with Uplink Communication from Switzerland with the enhanced T-AOGS: Robert Mahn, Julian Woicke, Karen Saucke, Thomas Marynowski, Patricia Martin-Pimentel and Frank F Heine (Tesat Spacecom, Germany)

C-DIMM: an autonomous, outdoor seeing monitor for astronomy, atmospheric studies and free space optical communications: Frederic Jabet (MIRATLAS & AIRYLAB, France)

Improving LEO Downlink Laser Communications through Predictive Adaptive Optics: Pablo Robles (ONERA & LAM, France); Cyril Petit and Jean-Marc Conan (ONERA, France); Bouchra Benammar (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France); Benoit Neichel (LAM, France)

Estimates for IM/DD key distribution over an optical LEO-to-ground link: Michał Jachura, Konrad Banaszek, (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland); Mikołaj Lasota, Piotr Kolenderski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch

13:00 – 14:20: S5: Space Optical Communication Systems I

Chair: Tomohiro Araki (JAXA, Japan)

(Invited) RF and Optical Hybrid LEO Communication System for Non-Terrestrial Network: Takashi Eishima, Soichiro Inoue, Akihiro Yonemoto and Jumpei Sudo (Axelspace Corporation, Japan); Takayuki Hosonuma and Shinichi Nakasuka (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Atsushi Shirane, Takashi Tomura and Kenichi Okada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kosuke Kiyohara (KIYOHARA OPTICS, Inc., Japan)
Multi-layer Constellation based Is-OWC employing NOMA: Wataru Tachikawa, Swarali Ajgaonkar, Kazutoshi Yoshii and Jiang Liu (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan)
Analysis of Tracking Gimbal Angles for Inter-Satellite Optical Communication System Between Two Orbits: Ryuichi Hirayama and Shinichi Nakasuka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Pulse positioned differential phase shift keying for high data rate satellite optical communications: Won-Ho Shin, Young-Jin Hyun and Sang-Kook Han (Yonsei University, Korea (South))
4-Level Optical Modulation Formats for LISLs in a Satellite Broadband Constellation Network: Amrita Gill, Gnanam Gnanagurunathan and Nafizah Khan (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia); Amin MalekMohammadi (California State University, USA)

14:20 – 14:30: Coffee Break

14:30 – 15:45: S6: OGS and Site Diversity Technologies

Chair: Cornelis Willem Korevaar (TNO, The Netherlands)

A study of cloud cover over multiple sites within Australia for satellite/ground atmospheric optical communication: Brett Nener (The University of Western Australia, Australia); Helen Chedzey and Mervyn Lynch (Curtin University, Australia); Vladimir Devrelis, Kerry Mudge and Kenneth Grant (Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia)
Greek Helmos Observatory readies for Optical and Quantum Communication: Zoran Sodnik, Harald Hauschildt, Hans Smit and Donatas Miklusis (ESA, The Netherlands); Emmanuel Xilouris, Spyros Basilakos, Panayotis Hantzios and Alex Gourzelas (National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece); Athanasios Marousis (University of Piraeus, Greece & National Observatory of Athens, Greece); John Alikakos (National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece)
The Mount Stromlo Optical Communication Ground Station: Marcus Birch, Noelia Martinez, Francis Bennet, Michael Copeland and Doris Grosse (Australian National University, Australia)
Beacon system for ESA IZN-1 Optical Ground Station: Jason Singleton (NKT Photonics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shaif-ul Alam (SP Photonics Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mike Yarrow (NKT Photonics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Richard Schafers (NKT Photonics Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Andrea Di Mira (Serco@ESA, ESOC, Germany); John Clowes (NKT Photonics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Clemens Heese (European Space Agency, Germany)
BER Performance Improvement using Spatial Diversity Combining in an Atmospheric Turbulent Channel with Satellite Vibration-Induced Fading: Charleston Dale M. Ambatali, Vinicius Ferreira Nery and Shinichi Nakasuka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:45 – 15:55: Coffee Break

15:55 – 17:25: S7: Space Optical Communication Systems II

Chair: Curt Schieler (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)

Low power-consumption coherent receiver architecture for satellite optical links: Alexis W Bernini and Martyn Fice (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Katarzyna Balakier (University College London (UCL) & Airbus Defence & Space, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
WITHDRAWN Focal Plane Assembly demonstrator for two-way Laser communication link: Jean-Baptiste Haumonte and Nathalie Gimbert (Bertin Technologies, France)
PhLEXSAT – A Very High Throughput Photo-Digital Communication Satellite Payload: Madhubrata Chatterjee (MDA, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chiara Palla and Edem Fiamanya (MDA Space and Robotics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marta Beltran (DAS Photonics S. L., Spain); Miguel Àngel Piqueras (Das Photonics S. L, Spain); Antoni Castells Cervello and Laurent Roux (Eutelsat, France); Patrick Runge (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Nigel Cameron (Axenic, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jakub Zverina (Argotech, Czech Republic)
Compact radiation resistant, high-gain optical fiber pre-amplifier for small 1.55 um laser-com terminals: Leontios Stampoulidis and Ahmed Osman (LEO Space Photonics, Greece); James Edmunds, Clive Palmer and Keith Simpson (Gooch & Housego, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anaelle Maho (Thales Alenia Space, Toulouse, France); Michael Sotom (Thales Alenia Space, France)
Robust atmospheric FSO communication receiver based on the coherent combination of spatial modes: an experimental evaluation: Anaelle Maho, Vincent Billault, Jerome Bourderionnet, Luc Levandier, Patrick Feneyrou and Arnaud Brignon (Thales Research & Technology, France); Michael Sotom (Thales Alenia Space, France)
Capacity Analysis of a MIMO Laser Link from Lunar Surface to Earth: Hung Le Son and Robert T. Schwarz (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany); Marcus Knopp and Dirk Giggenbach (German Aerospace Center, Germany); Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)

Thursday, March 31

9:30 – 10:35: S8: Optical Communications for Cubesats/Small Sats I

Chair: Bryan Robinson (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)

(Invited) DLR’s Optical Communication Terminals for CubeSats: Christopher Schmidt, Benjamin Roediger,Jorge Rosano Nonay, Christos Papadopoulos, Marie-Theres Hahn, Florian Moll and Christian Fuchs (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
TBIRD 200 Gbps CubeSat Downlink: System Architecture and Mission Plan: Curt Schieler, Kathleen Riesing, Bryan Bilyeu, Bryan Robinson and Jade Wang (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); William Thomas Roberts and Sabino Piazzolla (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
SelenIRIS: a Moon-Earth Optical Communication Terminal for CubeSats: Jorge Rosano Nonay, Christian Fuchs, Davide Orsucci, Christopher Schmidt and Dirk Giggenbach (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
On-Orbit Risk Mitigation for a ½-U Orbital Laser Guidestar Link: Albert Q Thieu and Lulu Liu (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)

10:35 – 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:50: S9: Optical Communications for Cubesats/Small Sats II

Chair: Christopher Schmidt (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

(Invited) Architecture for Reconfigurable Next-Gen Lasercom Terminals: Robert Carlson (The Aerospace Corp, USA)
NICT’s versatile miniaturized lasercom terminals for moving platforms: Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Koichi Shiratama, Phuc V. Trinh, Dimitar R. Kolev, Femi Ishola, Tetsuharu Fuse, Hiroyuki Tsuji and Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
Agile Beaconless Laser Beam Alignment with Adaptive Mm-Wave Beamforming for Inter CubeSat Communication: Chengtao M Xu and Eduardo Rojas (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA); Thomas Yang (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
Development and Testing of the Laser Transmitter and Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) System for the CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) B/C Mission: Hannah Tomio, William Kammerer III, Peter Grenfell, Ondrej Cierny, Charles Lindsay, Maddie Garcia, Paul C Serra, Kerri Cahoy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Myles Clark, Danielle Coogan and John Conklin (University of Florida, USA); David Mayer and Jan Stupl (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

11:50 – 13:00: Lunch

13:00 – 14:00: S10: Space Optical Communication Systems III

Chair: Dimitar Kolev (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Telesat LightspeedTM – Enabling Mesh Network Solutions for Managed Data Service Flexibility Across the Globe

Gerry Jansson (Telesat, USA)

An investigation into the technical and system operational impacts of applying FSO point to multipoint communications technology
Barry A Matsumori and Paul Searcy (BridgeComm, Inc., USA)Multi-aperture Transmission and DSP Techniques for Beyond-10 Tb/s FSO Networks
Keisuke Matsuda, Hayato Sano, Yukari Takada, Masashi Binkai, Shota Koshikawa, Yuta Yokomura, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Yoshiaki Konishi and Naoki Suzuki (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

Link Budget Design of Adaptive Optical Satellite Network for Integrated Non-Terrestrial Network

Hideaki Kotake, Yuma Abe, Mariko Sekiguchi, Tetsuharu Fuse, Hiroyuki Tsuji and Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

14:00 – 14:10: Coffee Break

14:10 – 15:10: S11: Optical Feederlink Technologies

Chair: Zoran Sodnik (European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands)

FEELINGS: the Onera’s optical ground station for Geo Feeder links demonstration: Cyril Petit, Aurélie Bonnefois, Jean Baptiste Volatier, Caroline B. Lim, Francois Gustave, Joseph Montri, Philippe Perrault, Laurie Paillier, Marie-Therese Velluet, Jean-Marc Conan, Anne Durecu and Nicolas Vedrenne (ONERA, France)
WITHDRAWN ALASCA: the ESA Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Optical Feeder Link demonstrator facility: Roberto Biasi (Microgate, Italy); Domenico Bonaccini Calia (European Southern Observatory, Germany); Noelia Martinez (Australian National University, Australia); David Jenkins (ESO, Germany); Ollie Farley (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Martin Enderlein (TOPTICA Projects GmbH, Germany); Petr Janout (ESO, Germany); Filippo Ambrosino (INAF-OAR, Italy); Hira Virdee (Lumi Space, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Matthew Townson (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mauro Centrone and Marco Faccini (INAF-OAR, Italy); Pierre Haguenauer (ESO, Germany); Marcos Reyes Garcia-Talavera (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain); Enrico Pinna (INAF-OAA, Italy); James Osborn (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Guido Agapito (INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy); Daniele Gallieni (A. D. S. International, Italy); Frank Lison (Toptica Projects, Germany); Laura Salvi (Microgate, Italy); David Gooding (Lumi, Germany); Zoran Sodnik (European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands)
New results from the 2021 FEEDELIO experiment – a focus on reciprocity: Perrine Lognoné (ONERA & Telecom Paris, France); Aurélie Bonnefois, Jean-Marc Conan, Laurie Paillier, Cyril Petit, Caroline B. Lim, Serge Meimon, Joseph Montri, Jean-Francois Sauvage and Nicolas Vedrenne (ONERA, France)
End-to-End Performance Analysis of Analog Coherent Optical Satellite Feeder Links: Cornelis Willem Korevaar, Jeroen J. Boschma and Remco den Breeje (TNO, The Netherlands); Johannes Ebert (Joanneum Research, Austria)

15:10 – 15:20: Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:35: S12: Satellite QKD Missions II

Chair: Alberto Carrasco-Casado (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

WITHDRAWN High-level concepts and design of commercial satellite-based QKD networks: Manuel Erhard, Armin Hochrainer, Thomas Herbst, Matthias Fink, Philipp Sohr, Johannes Handsteiner, Thomas Scheidl and Rupert Ursin (Quantum Technology Laboratories GmbH, Austria)
Link technology for all-optical satellite based quantum key distribution system: Florian Moll, Eltimir Peev, Andrew Reeves, René Rüddenklau, Agnes Ferenczi, Luca Macri, Stefanie Häusler, Jorge Pacheco-Labrador, Davide Orsucci, Marie-Theres Hahn and Juraj Poliak (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Nino Walenta (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Friederike Fohlmeister (German Aerospace Center, Germany); Jan Krause (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Design considerations for a Transportable Optical Ground Station for QKD: Luis Fernando Rodríguez Ramos, Jorge Socas Negrín and Marcos Reyes Garcia-Talavera (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Spain); Noelia Martinez (Australian National University, Australia); Álex Oscoz, Pablo González de Chaves Fernández, Joan Torras Estruch, Ángel Alonso Sánchez and Iciar Montilla (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Spain)
WITHDRAWN Entangled photon sources for space applications: Armin Hochrainer, Manuel Erhard, Matthias Fink, Johannes Handsteiner, Thomas Herbst, Thomas Scheidl, Philipp Sohr and Rupert Ursin (Quantum Technology Laboratories GmbH, Austria)
Large – Scale LEO Satellite Constellation to Ground QKD links: Feasibility Analysis: Argiris Ntanos and Nikolaos Lyras (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Saif Anwar (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Obada Alia (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dimitris Zavitsanos, Giannis Giannoulis and Athanasios D. Panagopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); George Kanellos (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hercules Avramopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

16:35 – 16:45: Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:10: Closing Session/Award Ceremony

Chair: Dimitar R. Kolev (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

TPC report and Award ceremony: Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
IEEE ICSOS 2023: Hamid Hemmati (Viasat, USA)
Closing remarks: Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)