3 - 7 August 2025
San Diego, California, US

Optical Engineering + Applications

The premier conference for developments in optical design and engineering, impacting photonic device and applications research

Featuring 25 conferences on:

  • Optical Design
  • Optical Alignment, Testing, and Fabrication
  • Signal, Image, and Data Processing
  • Photonic Devices and Applications
  • Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Propagation
  • X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Particle Technologies

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2024 Optical Engineering + Applications Plenary speakers


Bert Müller

Univ. Basel
(Switzerland)

Steven Boggs

Univ. of California, San Diego
(United States)

Zhi-Pei Liang

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(United States)

Julie Bentley

The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester
(United States)

Nelson Claytor

Fresnel Technologies, Inc.
(United States)

Jeremy Perkins

NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.
(United States)

2024 Featured Plenary - 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics


Anne L'Huillier

Lund Univ.
(Sweden)

2024 Sustainability Plenary speakers


Joseph J. Berry

National Renewable Energy Lab.
(United States)

Alexandra Boltasseva

Purdue Univ. (United States) and
The Quantum Science Ctr.,
Oak Ridge National Lab. (United States)

Optical Engineering + Applications 2024 program track chairs


Optical Design
José Sasián, Wyant College of Optical Sciences (United States)

Optical Alignment, Testing, and Fabrication
H. Philip Stahl, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (United States)

Signal, Image, and Data Processing
Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion Univ. (United States)

Photonic Devices and Applications
Ruyan Guo, The Univ. of Texas at San Antonio (United States)

Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Propagation
Stephen Hammel, Naval Information Warfare Ctr. Pacific (United States)
Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security, and Safety (Netherlands)

X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Particle Technologies
Ali Khounsary, Illinois Institute of Technology (United States)
Ralph James, Savannah River National Lab. (United States)