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District Visits
Invite your US representatives or senators to visit your company’s facility or university laboratory or meet in their local state or district offices
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- Local Section
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Technical Groups
- Bio-Medical Optics
- Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation
- Information Acquisition, Processing, Display and Perception
- Optical Interaction Science
- Photonics and Opto-Electronics
- Quantum
- Sensing
- Technical Group Leadership Volunteers
- Technical Group Webinars
- Technical Group Search
- Technical Group Prizes
- Simulight Optics Challenge
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District Visits/Facility Tours
Optica members can invite their US representatives or senators to visit their companies facilities or laboratories. As a resource, the National Photonics Initiative, of which Optica is a cofounding sponsor, has a helpful district visits toolkit.
Members of Congress typically work in their district office during Congressional District Work Periods, such as the summer district work period during the month of August. View the 2025 Congressional Calendar here for the House and Senate. When the House and Senate are "in session," those are the dates they will be in Washington, DC.
If you have questions about district visit or facility/laboratory tours, please contact Optica's Global Policy & Affairs team at publicaffairs@optica.org.
Photo Above: In April 2022, US Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) toured PFG Precision Optics in Ocean Springs, MS. Read the NPI News Release. (Pictured: Travis Green, PFG Precision Optics President, Senator Roger Wicker, and Gayle Wicker).
