The 2022 Technical Conference
The meeting united Optica (formerly OSA) and American Physical Society (APS) communities for quality, cutting-edge presentations, fascinating invited speakers and a variety of special events.
The Program
The conference chairs and subcommittee carefully curated a technical program that addressed the breadth and depth of the optics and photonics community. The meeting's structure was influenced by Optica technical divisions such as fabrication, design and instrumentation; optics in biology, medicine, vision and color; and information acquisition, processing and display.
The 2022 conference presented more than 50 technical sessions featuring contributed oral talks and 70 invited speakers; poster sessions and postdeadline paper sessions. In addition, the technical program was supplemented by three themes that represented leading-edge applications in optics and photonics. Each theme operated as a unique "workshop" within the conference.
Connecting Research + Applications
Each year, the Laser Science subcommittee selects key topics to address. There are five topics in 2022:
Plenary, invited and contributed talks were organized based on these topical categories. The result was a comprehensive technical program from some of the world's leading scientists.
Plenary and Visionary Speakers
In a time of technological disruption and evolution, when even things as familiar as vision, computers and automobiles seem to be on the edge of amazing reinvention, FiO LS brought forward true visionaries to speak about discoveries soon to come.
FiO LS featured two Plenary sessions and seven Visionary Speaker sessions with presenters from both within and beyond the optics and photonics community — each speaker provided insight into cutting-edge advances related to the conference themes and topics.
Plenary Speakers
- Scott Acton, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, USA
- Monika Ritsch-Marte, Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Visionary Speakers
- Martin S. Banks, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Kimberly S. Budil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia, PsiQuantum, USA
- Tony F. Heinz, Stanford University, USA
- Demetri Psaltis, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Maria Spriopulu, California Institute of Technology, USA
- Frank Wise, Cornell University, USA