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

Hot topics for this congress include design theory and methods; optical materials and surfaces; emerging technologies such as freeform, GRIN and meta optics; optical fabrication, testing and metrology and advances in optics assembly and packaging.

The congress highlights innovations that advance optical system architectures, functions and performance while addressing manufacturability across applications including semiconductors, AR/VR/XR, space and astronomy, biomedical imaging, illumination and high-intensity 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).