SPIE

SPIE is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955. It organizes technical conferences, trade exhibitions, and continuing education programs for researchers and developers in the light-based fields of physics, including: optics, photonics, and imaging engineering. The society publishes peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographs, tutorial texts, field guides, and reference volumes in print and online. SPIE is especially well-known for Photonics West, one of the laser and photonics industry's largest combined conferences and tradeshows which is held annually in San Francisco. SPIE also participates as partners in leading educational initiatives, and in 2020, for example, provided more than $5.8 million in support of optics education and outreach programs around the world.

WWW Official Site 𝕏 spietweets FB SPIE.org

Former names

On July 1, 1955, SPIE was founded as the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers in California to specialize in the application of photographic instrumentation. In 1964 the society changed its name to the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
In 1977, SPIE moved its headquarters to Bellingham, Washington, and in 1981 the Society began doing business as SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering to reflect a changing membership. In 2007, the society ended its DBA and is now referred to simply as SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Conferences and exhibitions

SPIE Conferences and Exhibitions connect optical science and the optics retail industry. The society is affiliated with over 140 meetings and events each year.

Publications

The society's first publication, SPIE Newsletter, was launched in 1957. In 1959, the society published its first book, SPIE Photographic Instrumentation Catalog. The newsletter morphed into the society's first journal, now known as Optical Engineering, SPIE's flagship monthly journal. Throughout the years, SPIE has created many publications including journals, magazines, newspapers, websites, and books.
SPIE publishes:

Fifteen scientific online journals
SPIE Technical Paper Proceedings
20-25 original technical books per year via SPIE Press

Scientific journals

All SPIE journals are peer-reviewed.Advanced Photonics, co-published by SPIE and Chinese Laser Press, Advanced Photonics is a highly selective, open access, international journal publishing innovative research in all areas of optics and photonics, including fundamental and applied research.', co-published by SPIE and Chinese Laser Press, publishes novel results of high significance and broad interest in all areas of optics and photonics. It is the sibling journal of Advanced Photonics.

' highlights the realized promise of novel and emerging biophotonics technologies and their impacts on basic and clinical science and medicine.Journal of Applied Remote Sensing is an online-only, quarterly published journal on remote sensing.Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems is published quarterly and covers development, testing, and application of telescopes, instrumentation, techniques, and systems for ground- and space-based astronomy.Journal of Biomedical Optics is published monthly with the latest on optical technology in healthcare and research.Journal of Electronic Imaging, co-published bi-monthly with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, publishes papers on electronic imaging science and technology.Journal of Medical Imaging is published quarterly and covers fundamental and translational research and applications focused on photonics in medical imaging, which continue to yield physical and biomedical advancements in early detection, diagnostics, and therapy of disease as well as in the understanding of normal.:Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology is published quarterly and focuses on lithographic technologies and the core enabling technologies that address the patterning needs of the electronics industry.Journal of Nanophotonics is an online-only, quarterly published journal on fabrication and application of nanostructures that generate or manipulate light from the infrared to the ultraviolet regimes.Journal of Optical Microsystems is published quarterly and contains papers on cutting-edge research of optical and photonic microsystems, from materials and fabrication of micro-optical and photonic components, through assembly and packaging, to systems and applications.Journal of Photonics for Energy is an e-journal published quarterly that covers fundamental and applied research applications of photonics for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, monitoring, consumption, and efficient usage.Neurophotonics, published quarterly, is at the interface of optics and neuroscience covering advances in optical technology applicable to study of the brain and their impact on the basic and clinical neuroscience applications.Optical Engineering is the flagship monthly journal of the society, with papers on research and development in all areas of optics, photonics, and imaging science and engineering.

SPIE Press

SPIE Press, the only independent, not-for-profit book publisher specializing in optics and photonics technologies, produces print monographs, handbooks, tutorial texts, and field guides, as well as electronic books and apps for mobile devices. Its origins date back to 1989 with the publication of The New Physical Optics Notebook.

Digital Library

The SPIE Digital Library publishes online technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1962 to the present, as well as eBooks published by SPIE Press. There are more than 660,000 articles, with more than 18,000 new research papers added annually.

Photonics Focus

Photonics Focus is the Society's bimonthly membership magazine focused on photonics applications, career development, and the photonics industry. The magazine launched in January 2020 replacing SPIE Professional, which was the Society's quarterly magazine that covered optics industry insights, technology overviews, and career trends. It ran from 2006 through 2019.

SPIE Newsroom

The SPIE Newsroom is a technical news website launched in March 2006. The SPIE Newsroom covers technical developments in optics and photonics. SPIE Newsroom articles are based around 13 technical communities. The communities are Astronomy, Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging, Defense & Security, Electronic Imaging & Signal Processing, Illumination & Displays, Lasers & Sources, Micro/Nano Lithography, Nanotechnology, Optical Design & Engineering, Optoelectronics & Communications, Remote Sensing, Sensing & Measurement, Solar & Alternative Energy.

Awards

The society issues several awards:

Gold Medal of the Society Award
SPIE Visionary Award
SPIE President's Award
SPIE Directors' Award
A.E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering
Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award
Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award
Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award
Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology
Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics
Diversity Outreach Award
Early Career Achievement Awards
Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography
G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization
George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics
Harold E. Edgerton Award
Harrison H. Barrett Award in Medical Imaging
Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award in Photonics decrypt
Maria J. Yzuel Educator Award
Mozi Award
Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Award in Optical Design
Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation
SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
SPIE Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter