We are excited to announce the launch of our Nonimaging Optics Design Competition 2025 - The XX Challenge! This competition celebrates the XX (20th) anniversary of the Nonimaging Optics conference series at SPIE Optics + Photonics!
Go to the competition page and start designing today. The submission deadline is May 4th, 2025.
May the best design light the way home!
We are pleased to announce that the call for papers is now open for the 20th anniversary conference on “Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Concentration XX” at SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025.
Submit your abstracts through the official submission portal. The deadline for abstract submissions is February 5, 2025.
The complete proceedings from our 2024 conference are now available online. This peer-reviewed collection includes both papers and presentation recordings from the conference.
You can access the materials through two complementary collections:
The 2024 Nonimaging Optics conference has concluded after three exciting, days featuring 31 talks from researchers around the world.
At the closing ceremony, Jeroen Cerpentier won the $500 best student and postdoc presentation award for his talk “Predicting freeform surface topologies for illumination applications via deep learning”. The award, sponsored by Synopsys Inc., recognizes outstanding student and postdoctoral research presentations.
Jeroen’s presentation showed how deep learning can be used to predict freeform optical surface designs, combining machine learning with optical engineering in an innovative way.
Congratulations to Jeroen and thanks to all presenters for making this year’s conference a success!
Jeroen Cerpentier receives the best student presentation. Presented by the award committee, Håkon J. D. Johnsen (NTNU), Bill Cassarly (Synopsys), and Lun Jiang (Richardson Electronics)