The Optica Advanced Photonics Congress is an inclusive event comprising eight topical meetings with coverage from optical materials, wafer-based optics and specialty fibers to applications in optical signal processing, optical communications, solar energy, lighting and displays.

Topics in manufacturing include AI-aided design, the integration of novel nonlinear optical materials and metamaterials. The congress brings overlapping communities in these topics together for engaging and collaborative conversation.

Image adapted as 3D model with permission from authors: An ultrashort dissipative soliton pulse circulating in a chip-integrated Fabry-Perot resonator. Dissipative Kerr solitons in integrated Fabry–Perot microresonators. Wildi, Thibault; Gaafar, Mahmoud; Ludwig, Markus; Herr, Tobias. Optica, Vol. 10, Issue 6, pp. 650-656 (2023).