PHOTONICS WEST 2026 – USA

SPIE Photonics West 2026 is one of the world’s premier events in optics and photonics, bringing together researchers, engineers, industry leaders, and innovators working across lasers, biomedical optics, quantum technologies, imaging, optoelectronics, and more.

The six-day conference and exhibition runs from January 17 to January 22, 2026 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the Moscone Center. The full technical program features hundreds of sessions, plenary talks, courses, and networking events, while the Photonics West Exhibition — along with co-located expos like BiOS, Quantum West, Vision Tech, and AR | VR | MR — showcases cutting-edge products and solutions from more than a thousand companies on January 20–22, 2026.

SPIE Photonics West is widely regarded as the leading global gathering for advancing photonics science and commercial technologies.