16 - 20 March 2026
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US

Information for authors and presenters

Information for presenters: instructions, deadlines, and tips for presentation and publication

Preparing for the meeting

Find guidelines, important dates, and other information for a successful conference and publication experience for presenters.

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Important dates

Abstracts due 1 October 2025
Registration opens December 2025
Authors notified and program posts online 8 December 2025
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs* 12 January 2026
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication 18 February 2026
Manuscripts due 25 February 2026
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides** 13 March 2026

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading
**After this date slides must be uploaded at the event

Why present and publish your work as part of SPIE High-Power Laser Ablation?

Here's how submitting an abstract puts a spotlight on your work:

  • Your participation in the conference gains 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.

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