Spie, the International Society for Optics and Photonics

spie, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, the not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. to connect with other members of the optics community, join the spie group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/106965 spie annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in north america, europe, asia, and the south pacific. in 2016, spie provided $4 million in support of education and outreach programs. spie publishes the spie digital library, containing more than 450,000 research papers from the proceedings of spie and the society's 10 scholarly journals with around 18,000 new papers added each year, and more than 260 ebooks from the spie press cata