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PHOTOPTICS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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Optics has a distinguished history in the physical sciences, shaping technological progress across centuries. From the early foundations of geometrical optics to the pioneering work of Alhazen, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Huygens, and Fresnel, the field has continuously evolved. The electromagnetic theory synthesis by Maxwell and the quantum revolution of the 20th century paved the way for modern laser and photonics technologies, which now drive scientific and industrial advancements.

Today, optical systems are integral to modern society, enabling transformative progress in various fields. In medical sciences, optics and photonics play a crucial role in vision technologies, surgical instrumentation, medical imaging, targeted drug delivery, and cancer photothermal therapies. Space exploration relies on optical components such as telescopes, lenses, and spectrometers to analyze distant celestial bodies.

Telecommunications, powered by fiber-optic networks, enables high-speed data transmission and global connectivity. In information processing, quantum computing, optical data storage, and photonic integrated circuits are revolutionizing the way data is stored and processed. Additionally, industry and manufacturing benefit from laser-based precision metrology, materials processing, cutting, and welding, while defense and security applications leverage advanced imaging, remote sensing, and laser-based weaponry.

Furthermore, laser and optical technologies are essential to applied research in physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine, serving as fundamental tools for analysis and experimentation. Their impact extends beyond high-end scientific applications into everyday consumer products such as displays, cameras, optical discs, and eyeglasses. Optical fiber technology remains the backbone of modern telecommunications and the internet, facilitating the rapid exchange of information across the globe.

This edition of PHOTOPTICS will feature three dedicated tracks: Optics, which covers fundamental and applied research in classical and modern optics; Photonics, focusing on advancements in optical communication, sensing, and quantum photonics; and Lasers, addressing laser physics, sources, applications, and industrial processes. The conference provides a platform for researchers, engineers, and industry professionals to present new methods, emerging technologies, advanced prototypes, and theoretical developments. General survey papers discussing future research directions are also welcome.

Accepted papers, presented at the conference by at least one author, will be published in the official PHOTOPTICS Proceedings (ISBN-registered). Selection will be based on scientific quality, originality, and relevance, with both full research papers and work-in-progress reports encouraged. In addition to oral and poster sessions, PHOTOPTICS invites companies to showcase products, technologies, and methodologies, and researchers to organize special sessions, workshops, or tutorials on emerging topics in optics, photonics, and laser technology.

For further details, submission guidelines, and participation opportunities, please contact the conference secretariat.


CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. LASERS
2. OPTICS
3. PHOTONICS


AREA 1: LASERS


  • Biomedical and Therapeutic Laser Applications
  • Fiber Lasers and Applications
  • Laser Spectroscopy and Microscopy
  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
  • Quantum Information and Communication
  • Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs
  • Laser Manufacturing Technology and Processes

AREA 2: OPTICS


  • Adaptive Optics
  • Applied Industrial Optics
  • Biomedical Optics
  • Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
  • Fiber Optics Technology
  • Light-Matter Interaction
  • Optical Communications and Networking
  • Optical Instrumentation and Signal Processing
  • Optical Materials and Devices
  • Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology

AREA 3: PHOTONICS


  • Fiber Optics Devices
  • Microphotonics, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Optical Manipulation
  • Nonlinear Optics and Photonics
  • Organic and Bio-Photonics
  • Photodetectors, Sensors, Displays and Imaging
  • Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices
  • Photonics for Energy, Green Photonics and Smart Lighting
  • Plasmonic Structures and Quantum Dots
  • Machine Learning in Photonic Systems
  • Frozen Light
  • Superfluidity in Polariton

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PHOTOPTICS 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 6 - 8 March, 2026

Paper Submission: October 2, 2025
Authors Notification: December 4, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: December 19, 2025

Paper Submission: November 13, 2025
Authors Notification: December 19, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: January 13, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: October 29, 2025

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: October 29, 2025

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: January 23, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: January 23, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: January 23, 2026

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: December 17, 2025
Authors Notification: January 14, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: January 22, 2026

SECRETARIAT

PHOTOPTICS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: photoptics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://photoptics.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Pablo Albella, University of Cantabria, Spain
Paulo António Ribeiro, LIBPhys, Portugal

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Agostino Iadicicco, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy
Maria Raposo, LIBPhys, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Hamed Alipour Banaei, Department of Electronics, Islamic Azad University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Marco Anni, University of Salento, Italy
Subhashish Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
Almut Beige, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Paolo Biagioni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniele Bortoli, University of Evora, Portugal
Humeyra Caglayan, Tampere University, Finland
Eric Cassan, Paris-Saclay University, France
Christophe Caucheteur, University of Mons, Belgium
Michele Celebrano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dominique Chiaroni, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
C. W. Chow, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Giampiero Contestabile, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Emiliano Descrovi, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Nathalie Destouches, UJM, France
Flavio Esposito, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Sergio Fantini, Tufts University, United States
Orlando Frazao, INESC TEC, Portugal
Frederic Gardes, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Ambra Giannetti, Independent Researcher, Italy
John Girkin, Department of Physics, Biophysical Sciences Institute, Durham University, United Kingdom
Ana Isabel Gomez, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Mexico
Vincent Kermene, Université de Limoges, XLIM Research Institute, France
Sangin Kim, Ajou University, Korea, Republic of
Alexander Kir'yanov, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico
Wei Lee, Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Cleber Mendonça, IFSC/USP, Brazil
Amalia Miliou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Lino Misoguti, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paulo Monteiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Claudio J. Oton, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Zhongqi Pan, University of Louisiana, United States
Stefano Pelli, Independent Researcher, Italy
Klaus Petermann, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Marco Pisco, University of Sannio, Italy
Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Dalhousie University, Canada
Francesco Prudenzano, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Sourabh Roy, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
François Sanchez, University of Angers, France
Luca Schenato, University of Padova, Italy
Wei Shi, Tianjin University, China
Leon Shterengas, Stony Brook University, United States
Susana Silva, INESC TEC, Portugal
Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Rui Tang, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Jürgen Van Erps, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Rozalina Zakaria, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Yichen Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

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