Digital Optical Technologies 2025

Take this opportunity to share your research at SPIE Digital Optical Technologies, a conference dedicated to emerging digital trends and perspectives in optics and photonics. Come to Munich to meet with users and researchers to discuss the latest developments in the field of digital optics.

The symposium will highlight research in all digital aspects of optics and photonics, from design, fabrication, to integration in systems:

Digital in Design

• iterative optimization concepts
• topological optimization algorithms
• AI- and deep learning-aided design techniques

Digital in Fabrication

• digital lithography techniques, NIL and novel wafer processing techniques and technologies
• diamond turning/techniques for injection molding, pressure molding, casting
• additive/subtractive manufacturing techniques, digital rapid prototyping technologies
• digital 3D printing by two photon polymerization.

Digital in Operation

• dynamic digital optics for switching, tuning or functionality reconfiguring
• computational techniques to enhance imaging, display and sensing functionality.

Digital optics building blocks can be grouped in three categories

• macro-optics: refractive freeform optics, hybrid refractive/diffractive optics, graded index optics
• micro-optics: MEMS, wafer scale optics, photonic integrated chips, silicon photonics
• nanophotonics: metasurfaces, photonic crystals, plasmonics.

Co-located with Laser 2025 in Munich, Germany, this new symposium aims at combining all aspects of digital optics around the following industry sectors

• immersive displays and sensing (AR, VR, MR, smart glasses)
• IoT sensors (6G)
• automotive and robotics (novel lighting, sensing, lidar)
• computing and datacom (silicon photonics, digital fiber optical communication, SLM, AI, PICs)
• quantum technologies (quantum computing, communication, sensing, microscopy)
• biomedicine (computational microscopy and endomicroscopy, adaptive optics, wavefront shaping, single-shot 3D imaging, AI, ML, DNN, physics-informed neural networks).

Examples of application fields using digital optics

• computational, imaging and sensing using digital optics
• datacom, computing and silicon photonics using digital optics
• computational multiple displays and compressive sensing
• novel sensors using digital optics
• imaging through scattering media
• snapshot ptychography and optical neuromorphic computing
• immersive digital imaging technologies and mobile vision
• light field shaping using computer-generated holograms
• diffractive processors using digital optics
• quantitative phase imaging methods for life sciences
• applied digital optics in metrology and synthetic aperture
• AI-controlled wavefront shaping
• virtual staining in biomedicine using neural networks.

These are emerging today as hot topics in academia, research institutions, industry and consumer devices. Researchers, engineers, product development managers, industry leaders as well as venture capital and market analysts are welcome to share their knowledge and experience, and be part of the ongoing digital optics revolution.

Learn about recent advances in using digital technologies to enhance the performance of optical imaging, display and sensing. Find out about new approaches that push digital principles at the macro-, micro- and nanoscales to the forefront of optics. Exchange new ideas, address your shared concerns, and get access to information not yet published in the mentioned topical areas. Share your research with other engineers, scientists and researchers.

Presentations will be permanently archived in the SPIE Digital Library, and made available to others in the international scientific community who seek to learn, make discoveries, and innovate. We invite you to join your colleagues and share the most recent developments and applications at SPIE Digital Optical Technologies.