The Congress and Co-located Meetings

The Optica Design and Fabrication Congress is the premier event for learning about advances in these important areas and highlights the use of modern design tools to reduce cost, augment manufacturability and enhance system performance.

Hot topics for this congress include additive manufacturing of optical components; advanced freeform design and fabrication tools for both imaging and non-imaging systems; micro-optics, the use of metasurfaces and other flat optical component techniques in advanced optical systems and how AI and machine learning tools can help in all areas of design, fabrication and testing. 

The design, fabrication and testing of optical components and optical systems plays an ever-increasing role in our modern society as more applications for optics are developed, especially in the areas of imaging, sensing and illumination systems. 

Image adapted as 3D model with permission from authors: Microlens array fabricated with laser additive manufacturing. Geometry-controllable micro-optics with laser catapulting Surdo, Salvatore; Diaspro, Alberto; Duocastella, Martí. Optical Materials Express, Vol. 9, Issue 7, pp. 2892-2901 (2019).