Coherent – Edmund Optics – Jenoptik – Lightfinder – Zeiss: ambassadors provide mentorship and support student and early-career professional engagement worldwide.

Optica’s membership selected the president of Plymouth Grating Lab and the Columbia University associate professor during the 2024 election.

Optica names inaugural Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award recipient.

Review: OFC 2024, 24 – 28 March, San Diego, USA

2024 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for Driggers, Friedman, Devitt, Furxhi, and Singh.

Rising star to advance quantum research at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Optica Foundation Challenge provides grants for work on a chip-integrated light sensor for early-stage medical intervention.

Co-sponsored by SPIE, Optica, and IEEE Photonics Society, the collaborative effort showcases optics and photonics engineers, scientists, and light-based technologies.

$20,000 prize honors achievements in using quantum optics to improve metrology and advance gravitational wave detection.

Robert Boyd wins the 2023 Frederic Ives Medal / Jarus W Quinn Prize and 17 more recipients for other honors.

The Spectra Physics and Stanford University emeritus, an outstanding volunteer in the laser community, is added to the most distinguished of all Optica member categories.

New photonics research to solve for environmental challenges and increasing the global bandwidth of optical communications.

Alain Rousset, President of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, is recognized by Optica as its latest advocate of optics. For more than twenty years, Rousset has...

Optica and the DPG have named Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck, Austria, the recipient of the 2023 Herbert Walther Award.

Society announces 2023 vice president and directors-at-large

Plenary presentations by quantum experts: Nathalie de Leon, Jian-Wei Pan, John Preskill, Christine Silberhorn, Michael Totzeck and Peter Zoller.

CLEO, the world-renowned conference for laser science and photonics applications, will be presented in a hybrid format, 15 – 20 May 2022.

The membership of Optica has elected Prof Gerd Leuchs, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, as the society’s 2022 vice...

The recognition honors the steadfast commitment and achievements of Optica members, companies or institutions that proactively work to create a more diverse, equitable...

The organization’s mission has stayed substantially on the same course its charter members envisioned over a century ago. The significance of the field, the expertise of...

Review: CLEO 2021, 9 – 14 May, online only