With six days of technical sessions, the conference will feature over 2,000 technical presentations of invited and tutorial speakers and contributed talks, plus special symposia, workshops, applications and technology topical reviews, short courses, special events and four distinguished plenary speakers. The exhibition will include industry-focused sessions and companies showcasing market-ready technologies in all areas of lasers and photonics. The hybrid approach will accommodate speakers and attendees from across the globe with in person and on-demand content.

“The plenary sessions are of the most highly anticipated components of CLEO, and we are particularly excited to present this year’s line-up of industry and academic visionaries,” CLEO 2022 general chair, Dr Ilko K Ilev. “Each year, we select the individuals who inspire us by making great strides in moving our industry forward – people who are driving breakthrough innovation in solutions for a better future. Drs Anderson, Cao, Delfyett, and Lipson personify these characteristics.”

For the first time, the event featured topical workshops ranging from commercial application for optical frequency combs and universal quantum computing to initiatives to improving diversity in STEM. The technical program was composed of thirty topic categories on fundamental science, science and innovations, and applications and technology.

Companies exhibiting at CLEO 2022 will introduce new products and demonstrate new technologies at the industry-leading conference. Exhibitors included Coherent, Edmond Optics, IPG Photonics, MKS-Newport, Menlo Systems, PicoQuant, Thorlabs, Toptica Photonics and many others.

US plenary speakers include Dana Z. Anderson, CTO ColdQuanta Inc, JILA Fellow and professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Hui Cao, John C Malone professor of applied physics, Yale University, Peter J Delfyett, university distinguished professor, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA, and Michal Lipson, Eugene Higgins professor of electrical engineering and professor of applied physics, Columbia University.

CLEO’s technical presentations cover the range of emerging technologies in laser science, quantum, biophotonics, telecommunications, advanced imaging and more. Monitor the CLEO website for the latest information on conference registration.

Optica members will have the opportunity to connect at networking meetups, honor recent Optica Fellows, and have professional headshots taken in the Optica booth (113).

CLEO is co-sponsored by the American Physical Society, IEEE Photonics Society and Optica.