Photonics West 2021 Preview

After announcing that the SPIE Photonics West 2021 technical conference and exhibition would be postponed until March 6-11 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, show organizers were forced to go virtual and take the event completely online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Now called the Photonics West Digital Forum, the virtual event will offer a mix of live plenary talks, on-demand technical presentations and discussions, online networking and special events, as well as a digital marketplace with product demonstrations and the ability to make business connections. Like the live event, the digital forum will cover a broad range of topics and technologies from biomedical optics and biophotonics to industrial lasers, optoelectronics, microfabrication, MOEMS-MEMS, displays, and more.