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30 January - 4 February 2027
San Francisco, California, US

Join your colleagues | Laser conference


SPIE LASE is the most comprehensive laser conference in the field, including industrial lasers, laser sources, and laser applications. The conference covers a broad spectrum of topics, including laser manufacturing, laser materials processing, nonlinear optics, fiber, diode, and solid-state lasers, laser resonators, beam steering, semiconductor lasers and LEDs, and 3D fabrication technologies.

Experts in lasers | LASE plenary and hot topic speakers in 2026


LASE Symposium Chairs


Clémence Jollivet

Coherent Corp. (United States)

Constantin L. Häfner

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and RWTH Aachen Univ. (Germany)

LASE Symposium Co-chairs


Vassilia Zorba

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (United States)

Kaoru Minoshima

Univ. of Electro-Communications (Japan)

SPIE LASE Program Track Chairs


Laser Sources
Yasumasa Kawakita, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Japan)


Nonlinear Optics and Beam Guiding
Vladimir Ilchenko, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)
Paul O. Leisher, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (United States)


Micro/Nano Applications
Henry Helvajian, The Aerospace Corp. (United States)


Macro Applications
Bo Gu, Bos Photonics (United States)