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12 - 16 April 2026
Strasbourg, France

SPIE Photonics Europe Technical Conference

Research and innovation from AR/VR and biophotonics to lasers and quantum technologies

Featuring over thirty conference topics to choose from

Come and hear the latest research shared as you network with like-minded experts in your field. Another outstanding programme has been built.

List of the 2026 conference topics


  • Metamaterials
  • Nanophotonics
  • Advances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics
  • Quantum Technologies
  • Terahertz Photonics
  • Functional Materials: Advances and Applications
  • Spintronics and Nanomagnetism
  • 3D Printed Optics and Additive Photonics Manufacturing
  • Unconventional Optical Imaging
  • Optics and Photonics for Advanced Dimensional Metrology
  • Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Imaging Applications
  • Optical Sensing and Detection
  • Real-time Processing of Image, Depth and Video Information
  • Optical and Photonic Microsystems: Technology and Applications
  • Specialty Optical Fibres
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics
  • Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications
  • Nonlinear Optics and its Applications
  • Lasers and Photonics for Advanced Manufacturing
  • Biomendical Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Imaging
  • Neurophotonics
  • Biophotonics in Point-of-Care
  • Clinical Biophotonics
  • Tissue Optics and Photonics
  • Data Science for Photonics and Biophotonics
  • Integrated Photonics Platforms
  • Organic Electronics + Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices
  • Photosensitive Materials and their Applicaitons
  • Liquid Crystals Optics and Photonic Devices
  • Machine Learning in Photonics
  • Photonics in Africa

Where advances in optics and photonics technologies are shared


SPIE Photonics Europe is the conference where leading researchers share latest innovations from AR/VR and biophotonics to lasers and quantum technologies. This meeting happens every other year in Strasbourg and provides an excellent opportunity for the optics community to gather and present research. Read an invitation from the chairs.

2026 Symposium Chairs


Paul Montgomery

Univ. of Strasbourg (France)

Anna Mignani

Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara" (Italy)

Thierry Georges

Oxxius (France)

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Presentations and manuscripts presented at Photonics Europe are published in the Proceedings of SPIE on the SPIE Digital Library.