Past Event Overview

SPIE Photonics Europe 2016 is the premier research conference in Europe presenting metamaterials, nanophotonics, biophotonics, quantum technologies, optical sensing, photonic fibers, and laser technologies among others.

Thank you for everyone's support and participation of SPIE Photonics Europe 2016.

Review the 2016 Programme
Onsite news and photos
Final Technical Programme/Exhibition Guide (17 MB PDF)
Technical Abstracts (3 MB PDF)
View Optical Modelling and Design Virtual Programme Track (1 MB PDF)
View Industry Events Programme (1 MB PDF)
2016 Proceedings

Photonics Europe: important presentations by prestigious speakers

Hot topics: Plenaries on essential developments in photonics
John Dudley, Université Franche-Comte, France
Cesar Jauregui Misas, Friedrich Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
David D. Sampson, University of Western Australia
Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Martin Schultze, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Physics, Germany
Sarah Bohndiek, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Katrin Amunts, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine in INM-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich and Cecile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Univ. of Düsseldorf, Germany
Industry Programme Highlighted Speakers
Ronan Burgess, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission
Michael Liehr, CEO, AIM Photonics; SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Special Workshops, pre-registration required
Graphene-based Photonics Technologies: Transitioning from Research to Commercialisation
Frank Koppens
, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Horizon 2020: Advanced Manufacturing and Photonics for Production
Ulrich Thombansen,
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT

18 conferences in these technical areas
Nanophotonics
Metamaterials
Graphene and 2D materials
Photonic crystal materials, devices, and fibres
Quantum technologies
Micro-optics
Organic phontonics
Biophotonics and Neurophotonics
Silicon photonics
Photonics for solar energy systems
Optical micro- and nanometrology
High-power lasers, semiconductor lasers, and laser dynamics
Multimedia applications, image, and video processing
Optical sensing and detection, modeling, and design
Nonlinear optics and applications


SPIE conference papers are published in the Proceedings of SPIE and available via the SPIE Digital Library, the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics research.  

The Proceedings are indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Ei Compendex, Inspec, Google Scholar, Astrophysical Data System (ADS), DeepDyve, ReadCube, CrossRef, and other scholarly indexes, and are widely accessible to leading research organizations, conference attendees, and individual researchers.