BELLINGHAM, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has rescheduled its 2021 Photonics West conference and exhibition. The event will take place 6-11 March 2021, in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The co-located SPIE AR | VR | MR event has been rescheduled for the same week. “For the photonics community, the conference and...Continue Reading

February 2-7, 2019, the global optics and photonics community descended on San Francisco for SPIE’s annual conference: Photonics West. With a whopping 58 companies in attendance, New York Photonics had its largest showing to date, the largest of any cluster at the conference. “New York companies have been presenting and exhibiting at Photonics West for...Continue Reading

#SPIEevents will host the biggest Optics, Photonics and Imaging conference in North America at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, January 27 – February 1, 2018. New York Photonics will have the largest pavilion at the conference, co-exhibiting and competing with countries on the exhibition floor. Joining the New York delegation this year are #LuminateROC and #GRERochesterBiz...Continue Reading

Who Should Attend: CEOs, Presidents, Sales Vice-Presidents, and Board Directors of B2B technology companies interested in improving sales results for their organizations. What will work and what won’t for penetrating new markets and winning more sales in 2018 and beyond? We will separate the obsolete from the future, the myths from the facts. You will...Continue Reading

ARIZONA PHOTONICS DAYS – 24/27 January 2018 – Tucson, Arizona Presented by Optics Valley in partnership with UA Tech Parks and the Global Photonics Alliance. Join us as the Optics Valley Committee of the Arizona Technology Council hosts our Global Photonics Alliance partners for two days of technical discussions and business-to-business meetings: Connect and Network...Continue Reading

Light and Sound Interactive 2017 Co-located with the New York Photonics Annual Meeting September 12-14 Rochester Riverside Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Rochester, NY For businesses:  Showcase products at the Trade Show  Meet perspective employees at the Career Fair  Discover new technologies  Meet potential customers  Meet potential suppliers  Meet with startups  Networking  Enjoy entertainment For...Continue Reading

The 14th International Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP-2017) took place May 29-31, 2017. The biannual conference gathered 286 educators in optics and photonics from 28 countries/regions. This was the first ETOP conference held in China. At ETOP 2017, I presented East High’s Precision Optics Manufacturing program. The invitation was extended by...Continue Reading

Rochester Institute of Technology professor Jie Qiao is the general co-chair of the international conference on Ultrafast Optics UFO X taking place in Beijing, China, from Aug. 16 to 21. Ultrafast optics uses short optical pulses that can provide higher intensity than a continuous wave of light. High-energy lasers can weld, cut and polish glass...Continue Reading

SPIE’s Photonics West, arguably the largest photonics conference in the world at 21,000 attendees this year, had representation among its exhibitors of  roughly 18% of the world’s optic and photonics market. That market, estimated at roughly $480 Billion by SPIE, is the foundation for technological advances in manufacturing, metrology, nanotechnology, semiconductors, biomedical instruments, consumer electronics,...Continue Reading

Top executives, representing different aspects of the marketplace, shared their insight and hard-fought lessons regarding trends and opportunities in optics and photonics. Optimax CEO, Rick Plympton shared 2013 experiences, including strong orders from laser systems, particularly HPL’s, and significant medical and semiconductor business. Plympton shared optimism about what he sees as necessary pruning (sequestration) of...Continue Reading