3 - 7 August 2025
San Diego, California, US

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Each August leading researchers and engineers meet to share emerging technologies in optical engineering and applications, nanotechnology, quantum science, organic photonics, and astronomical applications.

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The 2024 SPIE Awards Banquet Gallery

The SPIE Awards are presented annually at a gala event in August during SPIE Optics + Photonics in San Diego. This year marked yet another wonderful evening of honoring colleagues and relaxing with friends as we celebrated at the San Diego Air & Space Museum

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Daily photos from SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024


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2024 Featured Plenary - 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics


Anne L'Huillier

Lund Univ., (Sweden)

Listing of 2024 Plenaries


  • Joseph J. Berry, National Renewable Energy Lab.
  • Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue Univ. and
    The Quantum Science Ctr., Oak Ridge National Lab.
  • Hui Cao, Yale Univ.
  • Jason Valentine, Vanderbilt Univ.
  • Stephen Forrest, Univ. of Michigan
  • Jenny Nelson, Imperial College London
  • Bin Liu, National Univ. of Singapore
  • Paul Burn, The Univ. of Queensland
  • Steven Boggs, Univ. of California, San Diego
  • Zhi-Pei Liang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Julie Bentley, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester
  • Nelson Claytor, Fresnel Technologies, Inc.
  • Jeremy Perkins, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.

Featured 2024 Plenary interviews


Measuring up: The Compton Spectrometer and Imager

Steven Boggs, University of California, San Diego

Boggs discusses the latest developments of NASA’s Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission. The results from COSI are likely have a huge impact on the scientific priorities of future gamma-ray missions.

New discoveries in organic functional materials

Prof. Bin Liu, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Liu shares the impurity conundrum of ultralong organic phosphorescence. She also details the promising future of organic functional materials, driven by advancements in various fields such as electronics, energy storage, and biomedical applications.

Building a bridge between engineering and science with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope project

Jeremy Perkins, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA

Perkins discusses the status of the Roman Space Telescope Observatory, NASA’s next astrophysics flagship observatory,. The Roman will conduct several wide field and time domain surveys, as well as conduct an exoplanet census.

Plasmonics for sustainable technologies and green energy

Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University

Boltasseva shares details about her team’s work with nanophotonics and plasmonics, from advancing materials to machine-learning-assisted designs.

Detecting the invisible: Fluorescence-based identification of chemical threats

Paul Burn, University of Queensland

Burn discusses advances in chemical-threat detection and it's journey from fundamental science to where we have technology in market.

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