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11 Aug 25
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025: Analyzing from above the Earth to deep below

Plenary sessions highlight wide-ranging optical engineering challenges.

06 Aug 25
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025: Puente’s Kyle Myers elected to SPIE presidential chain

Next VP has worked across industry, government, and academia, and is a longstanding contributor to the community.

06 Aug 25
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025: Government affairs update

SPIE’s Jennifer O’Bryan details issues around Trump’s policies and how industry can respond.

06 Aug 25
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025: Plenary talks assess organic materials for opto-electronics

Session ranged from triplet-to-singlet upconversion, to organic photodetectors and OLEDs, and ink-jet printing of photonics.

05 Aug 25
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025: toward the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Breann Sitarski of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center updates conference on progress of telescope design.

30 Jul 25
SPIE welcomes 92 new Senior Members

Recognition honors scientific excellence and technical achievements, and participation in the optics community.

29 Jul 25
Fraunhofer IZM reports on Quantum Cascade project to develop modular lasers

Aim is to give SMEs access to new sources for multispectral analytics and business development.

23 Jul 25
NIST’s ion clock claims record for ‘most accurate in the world’

In the latest wave of optical atomic clocks, it is accurate to 19 decimal places.

15 Jul 25
EC invests €5.6 M in laser to create film surfaces inspired by shark skin...

...and Photonics21 urges industry members to engage in Board of Stakeholders election 2025.

14 Jul 25
2026 SPIE Prism Awards open for outstanding photonics developments

Winners, showing excellence in photonics, to be announced in January at Photonics West.

09 Jul 25
Solar power adoption across Europe on the rise during 2025 – Fraunhofer ISE report

But total renewable power generation was down 3.8% due to smaller input from wind.

02 Jul 25
Negative thermal expansion alloy to enable stable lenses to hunt for exoplanets

Company Allvar working with NASA on NTE space telescope optics; other applications are possible.

 
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