Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

1. High power lasers and high energy lasers

• Solid-state, Fiber Lasers
• Semiconductor Lasers
• Terahertz Sources and Applications
• Applications of Nonlinear Optics
• Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterisation
• Ultrafast Optical Technologies
• High-field Laser Physics and Attosecond Technologies
• Fiber and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers

2. Laser manufacturing and laser detection technology

• Laser cutting, drilling and machining technology
• Laser welding and joining technology
• Laser additive manufacturing
• Laser micro/nano Fabrication
• Laser surface engineering
• Lasers, systems and components
• Modelling and simulation
• Laser interference length measurement
• Laser ranging, laser vibrometer, laser velocimetry
• Laser speckle measurement, laser alignment
• Laser holography

3. 3D printing technology

• 3D Printing Biomedical
• 3D Print of Cultural and Creative
• 3D Printing Material
• 3D Printing and Industry 4.0
• 3D Printing and Industrial Design

4. Advanced optical design and manufacturing technologies

• Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering
• Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization
• Zoom Lenses
• Laser Beam Shaping
• Optical System Alignment, Tolerancing, and Verification
• Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration
• Advanced optical manufacturing technologies
• Aspheric optics design, manufacturing and testing
• Ultra-precision freeform surfaces design, manufacturing and Testing
• Super-precision optical manufacturing
• Optical thin film coatings
• Diamond turning technology
• Optical design and simulation software and tool
• Optoelectronics components and modules integration and manufacturing
• Opto-mechanical components and devices

5. Optical Measurement Technology and Instrument

• Testing and alignment of optical surfaces and systems
• Test for super- precision optical surface
• Test for freeform optics
• Measurement for super smooth surface
• Measurement of optical thin film
• Test of infrared technologies
• Optical test and measurement for Micro and Nano scale technology
• Laser radar
• Modern Optoelectronic Instruments
• Detectors Focal Plane Instrumentation
• IR/ X-ray /UV measurement technology and Instrument
• Measurement Uncertainty and Machine Tool Testing
• Measurement of Radiometry and photometry
• Measurement of 3D Imaging and Display

6. Robot Sensing and Advanced Control

• Machine vision and Image processing
• Opto-electronic Imaging
• Optical communication and optical signal processing
• Optical sensor and applications
• Environment recognition, Localization and navigation for unmanned vehicle systems
• Opto-mechanical components and devices
• Opto-electronic tactile sensing and force sensor
• Binocular vision and 3D reconstruction
• Visual naviagation and path planning
• Eyes-in-hand robot system
• Vision-based robot precise assembly
• Vision-based tele-robot system
• Multi-sensor information fusion for robot

7. Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation

• Space Telescopes and Instrumentation: Ultraviolet, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
• Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes and Instrumentation
• Optical and IR Interferometry and Imaging
• Adaptive Optics Systems
• Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation
• High-Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors in Astronomy

8. Optical Data Storage

• Holographic recording
• Multi-dimensional recording
• Near field recording
• Super resolution
• Hybrid recording
• Optical recording materials
• Basic theory and modeling
• Testing and characterization
• Media
• Components
• Coding and signal processing
• Drive technologies
• Systems and applications
• Future emerging technologies
• Nanophotonics
• Plasmonics
• Spintronics
• Biophotonics
• Hybrid materials and devices

9. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Applications

• Airborne & Satellite Hyperspectral Applications (agriculture, forestry, environment, geology, survey, ocean, etc)
• UAV-born Hyperspectral Sensors
• Space-born Optical Sensor Technologies
• Space Physics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Research
• Space Objects Characterization
• Hyperspectral Imaging Systems and Technologies
• Hyperspectral Data Preprocessing and Analysis
• On-board Hyperspectral Data Storage and Real-time Data Transmission
• Micro-satellite Technologies, etc

10. silicon-based photonic integration

• Luminescent materials and devices
• Optical transmission and control in micro / nano scale
• Photonic devices
• Fabrication and device of heterogeneous structure materials
• Optoelectronic integration
• Other novel silicon-based technologies

11. Infrared technology and application

• Infrared detector materials and devices
• Infrared cameras and systems
• Infrared detectors and imaging applications
• Semiconductor materials for infrared and mid-IR lasers
• Novel infrared semiconductor lasers and related applications
• Novel infrared materials for photovoltaics
• Information acquisition & signal processing technologies
• Testing and simulation technologies
• Environment characteristics of target and atmospheric transmission
• Applications in remote sensing, navigation, communication, environmental protection, public security, medicine and industrial inspection

12. Environmental Monitoring and Safety Testing Technology

• The general spectrum (color spectrum and mass spectrum testing) analysis method
• Air, water, soil pollution and poisonous and harmful substance monitoring technology
• Emergency monitoring and telemetry of pollution incidents
• Food and drug safety testing technology
• Safety testing technology in industrial production process
• Public security detecting technology
• Newtheory, technology and equipment of environmental safety monitoring /testing

13. Optical Fiber Sensors Technology and Applications

• Optic fiber gyro
• Novel fiber optic sensing mechanisms
• Fiber Optic Sensor System Technologies
• Fiber optic sensor applications

14. Opticalcommunication and optical network

• Broadband fiber access network technology and application of 100G / 400G / 1T high-speed optical transmission systems
• Large-capacity optical switching technology and applications
• Flexible intelligent optical networking technology and applications
• All-optical gateway key technology
• Software-defined optical network with optical layer resource virtualization
• OTN and PTN and integration
• Data center and application of optical interconnect architecture
• Optical network operation and management
• Optical communication and industrialization of key components
• Fiber optic communications and wireless networking and application integration
• Space optical communication and networking and application
• Advances in optical communications standard
• Optical Communication edge technology