20 - 23 October 2025
Rochester, NY, US

Information for authors and presenters

Information for authors, chairs, and committees: instructions, deadlines, and tips
Presenter at SPIE Optifab

Prepare to present

On this page find links to instructions, important dates, and other information for a successful week for presenters at SPIE Optifab.

Benefits of presenting and publishing your work with SPIE


Here's why publishing with Optifab puts a spotlight on your work:

  • the event will bring you international visibility
  • your research becomes a part of the world's permanent scientific record
  • your work will be indexed in all relevant scientific databases*

Make sure that your research gets timely publication in the SPIE Digital Library.

*SPIE partners with relevant scientific databases to ensure visibility for your research, including Astrophysical Data System (ADS), Ei Compendex, CrossRef, Google Scholar, Inspec, Scopus, and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

Important dates


Abstracts due 7 May 2025
Registration opens July 2025
Authors notified and program posts online 14 July 2025
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs* 18 August 2025
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication 24 September 2025
Manuscripts due 1 October 2025
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides** 17 October 2025

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading
**After this date slides must be uploaded onsite at Speaker Check-in

Prepare to share your work