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EIGHTH TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are thrilled to welcome Qingfeng Li as our eighth tutorial speaker at EOSAM 2025! His tutorial, "Thorlabs Quantum Optics Kit," will introduce the Quantum Optics Educational Kit, a versatile platform that enables the exploration of quantum phenomena using single and entangled photons. Participants will learn how to characterize a heralded single-photon source and use coincidence counting techniques.

SEVENTH TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are excited to welcome Sylvain Gigan as our seventh tutorial speaker at EOSAM 2025! His tutorial, "Photonics for AI : coming of age?," will present a broad overview of the current state of the art in optical machine learning, showing how multiple scattering of light enables large-scale random matrix multiplication for various tasks, and how this concept can be extended beyond single-layer operations, to modern machine learning tasks.

FIFTH PLENARY SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We’re pleased to welcome Monika Ritsch-Marte (University of Innsbruck) as our next plenary speaker at EOSAM 2025! Her talk on "Optical tomography of scattering samples by means of acoustofluidic actuation" will explore how acoustic fields can non-invasively rotate large, opaque biomedical samples—such as organoids or embryos—within microfluidic chambers, enabling multi-angle optical imaging and 3D tomographic reconstruction using techniques like OCT and ODT.

SIXTH TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are thrilled to announce James Blakesley from the National Physical Laboratory as the sixth tutorial speaker at EOSAM 2025! In his tutorial, "Applications of Digital Illumination in Metrology for Semiconductors and Photovoltaics," he will introduce the use of Digital Illumination (DI) for measurement and characterisation, illustrated with examples from the field of standards and metrology for photovoltaics and semiconductors.

REGISTRATION FEES ARE PUBLISHED – No Increase from Previous Years!

Plan your participation—registration fees are now available! We have kept the registration fees unchanged from previous years in support of the scientific community. Early Bird rates apply until 12 June 2025. EOS members, including members of EOS National Societies and EOS Partner Societies, receive a discount on the fee.

FOURTH PLENARY SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are thrilled to welcome Nathalie Picqué (Max-Born Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin) as a plenary speaker at EOSAM 2025! Her research interests are in the areas of optics and molecular physics, more particularly in interferometry, precision spectroscopy and laser technology. Her talk on "Frequency Comb Interferometry," will provide a short introduction to optical frequency combs and will survey dual-comb interferometry and its latest exciting developments.

FIFTH TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are delighted to announce Simon Horsley (University of Exeter) as the fifth tutorial speaker at EOSAM 2025! In his tutorial, "Topology, Waves, and the Refractive Index," he will examine the application of topology to problems in wave physics and discuss a physical interpretation for the Chern number, based on the idea that the critical points which it records can be understood as points where the refractive index vanishes.

THIRD PLENARY SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We’re pleased to welcome Pablo Artal (University of Murcia) as our next plenary speaker at EOSAM 2025! His talk on "Two-Photon Infrared Vision" will discuss their recent investigations into TPA-mediated vision, including its impact on visual acuity and color perception. His presentation will provide an overview of their key findings, the methodologies employed, and the broader impact of TPA vision research and applications.

SECOND PLENARY SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We’re thrilled to welcome Arie den Boef (ASML, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ARCNL) as a plenary speaker at EOSAM 2025! His talk on "Digital Holographic Microscopy in overlay metrology for the semiconductor industry" will present an overview of the status of their research on DHM. He will explain the underlying concept and present some first experimental data that demonstrate the potential benefit for overlay metrology.

FOURTH TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are excited to welcome Hugo Cramer as our fourth tutorial speaker at EOSAM 2025! A Senior Systems Architect at ASML with over 20 years of experience in semiconductor metrology and applications, Hugo brings deep expertise to the field. His tutorial, "Scatterometry in the Semiconductor Industry," will explain the working principles, hardware implementations, and parameter inference methods.

FIRST PLENARY SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are excited to welcome Clara Saraceno (Ruhr University Bochum) as our first plenary speaker at EOSAM 2025! Her plenary talk, "High-Power Ultrafast Moves into the Terahertz," will review recent progress in the generation of high-average power THz-pulses, current technological challenges in scaling THz average power, and applications areas that could potentially benefit from these novel sources.

THIRD TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We’re pleased to welcome Martijn Anthonissen (Eindhoven University of Technology) as our next tutorial speaker! He is part of one of the few mathematics groups worldwide working on optical design problems from illumination optics. His tutorial, "Computational Illumination Optics," will outline how to model optical systems mathematically and how to compute numerical solutions of the resulting equations.

SECOND TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are thrilled to welcome our next tutorial speaker, Ignacio Moreno (Universidad Miguel Hernández), who has extensive experience in the field of liquid crystal spatial light modulators, and their application in diffractive optics and polarization optics. His tutorial, "Spatial Light Modulators," will present the fundamentals of SLM technology, their modulation configurations and techniques for their characterization.

FIRST TUTORIAL SPEAKER ANNOUNCED!

We are excited to welcome our first tutorial speaker, Julius Muschaweck (JMO GmbH), a German physicist who has been working in optical design for illumination for nearly thirty years! His tutorial, "Introduction to Colorimetry," will cover the physiology of human color vision, common CIE color spaces, color difference metrics, and color rendering metrics.

ALL TOPICAL MEETINGS ARE PUBLISHED!

EOSAM is a great platform for presenting the most recent research results to a wide international audience, connecting and catching up, as well as bridging the gap between research, education, and industry. Submit to any of the topics and join us at EOSAM to meet the European optics and photonics community!

EOSAM IS COLLABORATING WITH 360 CARLA!

EOSAM is collaborating with 360 CARLA, a photonics career hub, to equip students and researchers with the training, mentorship, and insights they need to excel in the photonics field and become better prepared for their careers. At EOSAM 2025, this program will offer an exclusive experience that connects students and companies.

EOSAM 2025 WILL HOST THE FACE2PHASE MEETING!

As the name suggests, Face2Phase is all about the measurement and use of phase information in optics. Major topics are phase-sensitive imaging and sensing methods such as holography, interferometry, ptychography and other computational imaging techniques, optical coherence tomography and more.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR EOSAM 2025!

Abstract submission for EOSAM 2025 is officially open and will close on 27 March 2025! Explore the wide range of topics available and be part of Europe’s major optics and photonics gathering. Submissions are accepted for oral and poster presentations across all topics. Each topic has its own program committee and chairs who will review the submissions.

EXHIBITION & SPONSORING

EOSAM provides companies with the perfect setting to promote their expertise and products, announce job opportunities, create new leads, and strengthen existing ones. The EOSAM Exhibition takes place from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 August 2025 in Delft, the Netherlands. (The conference program starts on Sunday 24 August and ends on Thursday 28 September.)

EOSAM 2025: MOVING TO THE CHARMING CITY OF DELFT!

In 2025, the European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) will take place in the picturesque city of Delft, Netherlands, co-organized with the prestigious Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Around 500 attendees from all over the world are expected to present their most recent research results, network, and catch up.

EOSAM 2024 SUMMARY

The European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM 2024, was held in the sunny and captivating city of Naples, Italy, 9-13 September, at the facilities of CESTEV, University of Naples Federico II. It was organized this year in close collaboration with the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics (SIOF), the Italian branch of the European Optical Society (EOS).