Plan now to participate
The Organising Committee of the fifth SPIE European Symposium on Optics/Photonics in Security and Defence invites you to submit papers to this exciting meeting: this event crosses the divide between fundamental optical science and the application of the underpinning technologies in advanced defence and security systems. This symposium will be co-located with the 15th SPIE Symposium on Remote Sensing, which enhances opportunities to identify new partners for collaboration from related fields of activity. Showcase your multi-disciplinary research in a major international forum.
New challenges continue to emerge as strategies such as network-enabled capability/network-centric warfare evolve. Similarly, the problems posed by asymmetric warfare, by military operations in the urban theatre and in peace-keeping are changing the way that the fundamental and emerging technology base is likely to be exploited in the future. This unique symposium will offer many opportunities to network with colleagues from a variety of disciplines in academia, industry, and government from all over the World, while still maintaining a distinctly European focus.
The Optics/Photonics Symposium in Security and Defence will consider all aspects of this evolving field:
- Materials
- Optical devices
- Enabling technologies
- Advanced concepts
- Sensors (including their design, fabrication and exploitation)
- Silicon micro-systems
- Nanotechnology
- Bio-inspiration and biomimetics
- Signal processing and control
- Laser technologies and their application
- Electro-optic systems and concepts
- Modelling and simulation
Other relevant topics are also welcome to ensure a vibrant meeting. Engineers and researchers from government, military, academia and the commercial sector will discuss current status and future directions of a wide range of R&D projects.
Participation from academic institutes is especially encouraged; graduate and undergraduate student researchers are invited to submit their work and interact with international leaders. All papers presented at this event will appear in the SPIE Digital Library.
We look forward to seeing you at Optics/Photonics in Security and Defence 2008, where opportunities abound for combining cutting-edge science and technology with the beauty of historic capital of Wales, Cardiff.
2008 Symposium Chair:
 | David H. Titterton
Defence Science and Technology Lab.
(United Kingdom)
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