SPIE
Sign in to saveSPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955. It organizes technical conferences, trade exhibitions, and continuing education programs for researchers and developers in the light-based fields of physics, including: optics, photonics, and imaging engineering. The society publishes peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographs, tutorial texts, field guides, and reference volumes
Key facts
- Organization.logo
- SPIE logo.svg
- Organization.logo_size
- 200px
- Organization.type
- Professional organization
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- 2024 President: Jennifer K. Barton CEO: Kent Rochford
- Organization.name
- SPIE
- Organization.founded_date
- July 1, 1955
- Organization.location
- Bellingham, Washington USA
- Organization.origins
- Formerly: Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers
- Organization.area_served
- Worldwide
- Organization.focus
- Optics and photonics related technologies
- Organization.num_employees
- 180
- Organization.num_members
- 20,000+
- Organization.homepage
- spie.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Former names
- Conferences and exhibitions
- Publications
- Scientific journals
- SPIE Press
- Digital Library
- Photonics Focus
- SPIE Newsroom
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955. It organizes technical conferences, trade exhibitions, and continuing education programs for researchers and developers in the light-based fields of physics, including: optics, photonics, and imaging engineering. The society publishes peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographs, tutorial texts, field guides, and reference volumes in print and online. SPIE is especially well-known for Photonics West, one of the laser and photonics industry's largest combined conferences and tradeshows which is held annually in San Francisco. SPIE also participates as partners in leading educational initiatives, and in 2020, for example, provided more than $5.8 million in support of optics education and outreach programs around the world.
== Former names == On July 1, 1955, SPIE was founded as the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers in California to specialize in the application of photographic instrumentation. In 1964 the society changed its name to the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.