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 Applications
• Liquid Crystals Optics and Photonic Devices
• Machine Learning in Photonics
• Photonics in Africa