The Technical Program

Optical design and fabrication play an increasingly important role across a wide range of applications and industries. The 2027 Optica Design and Fabrication Congress highlights innovations that advance optical system architectures, functions and performance while addressing manufacturability throughout the design and fabrication process.

The technical program explores advances in design theory and methods, optical materials and surfaces, optical fabrication, characterization, testing, metrology, assembly and packaging. Emerging technologies include freeform optics, GRIN optics, meta optics and photonics, with particular attention to new approaches that enable increasingly sophisticated optical components and systems.

Hot topics for this congress span applications in microlithography and semiconductors, visual systems and AR/VR/XR, space and astronomy, biomedical imaging, illumination and other non-imaging systems and high-fluence or high-intensity environments.

• Discover advances in optical design theory and methods, including co-design with sources and detectors.
• Explore emerging technologies including freeform optics, GRIN optics, meta optics and photonics.
• Learn about developments in optical fabrication, characterization, testing and metrology.
• Examine approaches to optics assembly and packaging that support system performance and manufacturability.
• Explore optical technologies and methods for semiconductor, AR/VR/XR, space and astronomy, biomedical imaging, illumination and high-fluence or high-intensity applications.