Optica Technical Groups

Affordable medical diagnostics are within reach! 💡 Fiber-optic sensors offer a cheap, compact alternative to costly lab equipment—immune to EM fields, chemicals & radiation. Join our webinar to explore their potential in biology & medicine. Register here: bit.ly/3ZKRGsk

Could fibre-optic sensors transform medical diagnostics? Learn how their compact size, low cost, and resistance to interference make them promising tools for expanding access to biological and medical measurements. Register here: bit.ly/46S7qxJ

Can silicon power quantum networks? 🔬 Prof. Zhang reveals how T center defects in silicon enable spin-photon interfaces, coherent spin control & 3-spin quantum registers—steps toward scalable quantum networking. Register here: bit.ly/4aW91oq

It's time to lock in...your spot to #OpticaBiophotonics26! This year's plenary will address insights into biomedical optics, including imaging brain tissue, the use of #AI in 3D holotomography and more topics transforming #medicine. Register by 13 March: bit.ly/4bPj7bD

Via #OPG_Optica: Single-scan adaptive optics-enabled quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography for absolute three-dimensional retinal blood flow mapping bit.ly/4rVs4VE #InVivoImaging #RetinalBloodFlow

An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OL: An exponential curved crystal: design and performance for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy bit.ly/4aUfG2p #XRaySpectroscopy #HighResolution

Our Optical Fabrication and Testing Technical Group invites you to discover breakthrough self-assembly techniques using thin films, liquid metals & fluid instabilities to create flexible, color-shifting, reconfigurable photonic surfaces. Register here: bit.ly/40hKu74

How is #FiO25 going? The first plenary is today, 28 October at 10:30 MT! Visit the Four Seasons Ballroom 1 and hear David Wineland discuss #quantum state superpositions and entanglement, and an analog of Schrödinger's cat. Find the schedule: bit.ly/47blfb0

Join various Technical Groups for a poster competition today at 18:30 MDT. Please scan the QR code to register and note that this event is exclusive to Optica members. #FiO25

Join the Optical Fabrication and Testing Technical Group for a special event for early-career researchers and students today at 12:45 MDT. Please scan the QR code to register and note that this event is exclusive to Optica members. #FiO25

Join the Environmental Sensing Technical Group for a panel discussion today at 12:45 MDT. Please scan the QR code to register and note that this event is exclusive to Optica members. #FiO25

TOMORROW: #FiO25 attendees, join us at 10:00 PDT in the Optica Member Lounge for our Meet the Editors Q&A session to chat with some of our journal editors about all things publishing! Bring your questions—we’ll bring the pastries. bit.ly/3WVlNvy

An Editor's Pick via #OPG_Optica: Hidden nonlinear optical susceptibilities in linear polaritonic spectra bit.ly/4hcklOQ

Via #OPG_Optica: In situ tunneling control in photonic potentials by Rashba–Dresselhaus spin–orbit coupling bit.ly/3KUumEa #OpticalMicrocavities #LatticeTunneling@IBMResearch

Via #OPG_OpEx: Streaming self-corrected dual-comb spectrometer bit.ly/3UMElgM #FieldMeasurements #FrequencyCombs @tugraz

How can photonic nanostructures boost solar cell efficiency? 🌎Join Dr. Nikhil Deep Gupta as he explores light trapping, nanotextures & simulations that advance solar energy harvesters. bit.ly/4oKnatE

The Applied Spectroscopy Technical Group invites you to a webinar with Torben Purz to explore ultrafast imaging—with hyperspectral, hypertemporal, and volumetric capabilities—enhances the characterization of advanced materials. Register here: bit.ly/3HU0Hda

Join Jerry Meyer (NRL) on 25 August at 11:00 EDT for a deep dive into interband cascade lasers (ICLs) & resonant cavity infrared detectors (RCIDs) in the MWIR band. Discover breakthroughs in on-chip chemical spectroscopy & high-sensitivity detection. bit.ly/3V9z42M

On this #ThankYouEditorsThursday, we'd like to thank our outgoing #OPG_Optica Associate Editors Igor Aharonovich, @igordownunder and Monika Ritsch-Marte, Innsbruck Medical University. Thank you for supporting @OpticaPubsGroup and in particular Optica!

Join us on 22 August at 10:00 EDT as Adriana Lita explores Transition-Edge Sensors (TES) — cutting-edge superconducting single-photon detectors with >95% efficiency. Learn about their operation, challenges, and applications in quantum photonics.