The Optica Design and Fabrication Congress is the premier event for innovations that significantly advance system architectures, functions and performanc while ensuring manufacturability across a wide range of applications and industries.

Hot topics for this congress include design theory and methods, including co-design with sources and detectors; optical materials and surfaces; emerging technologies such as freeform optics, GRIN optics, meta optics and photonics; optical fabrication; optics characterization, testing and metrology and optics assembly and packaging.

The congress highlights advances across applications including microlithography and semiconductors, visual and AR/VR/XR, space and astronomy, biomedical imaging, illumination and other non-imaging applications and high-fluence or high-intensity applications.

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).