Meeting Series

ICO Congresses

• ICO-22, 2011, México
  Light for the development of the world
  Puebla, México, Aug. 15-19, 2011
• ICO-21, 2008, Australia
  Optics for the 21st Century
  Sidney, Australia, July 7-10, 2008
• ICO-20, 2005, People's Republic of China
  Challenging Optics in Science & Technology
  Changchun, China, Aug. 21-26, 2005
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Optical Devices and Instruments
  Editors: James C. Wyant, X. J. Zhang
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6024
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Optical Communication
  Editors: Yun-Chur Chung, Shizhong Xie
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6025
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Biomedical Optics
  Editors: Gert von Bally, Qingming Luo
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6026
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Optical Information Processing
  Editors: Yunlong Sheng, Songlin Zhuang, Yimo Zhang
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6027
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Lasers and Laser Technologies
  Editors: Y. C. Chen, Dianyuan Fan, Chunqing Gao, et al.
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6028
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Materials and Nanostructures
  Editors: Wei Lu, Jeff Young
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6029
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Display Devices and Systems
  Editors: Tatsuo Uchida, Xu Liu, Hang Song
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6030
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Remote Sensing and Infrared Devices and Systems
  Editors: Jingshan Jiang, O. Y. Nosach, Jiaqi Wang
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6031
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: MEMS, MOEMS, and NEMS
  Editors: Masayoshi Esashi, Zhaoying Zhou
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6032
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Illumination, Radiation, and Color Technologies
  Editors: Dazun Zhao, M. R. Luo, Hirohisa Yaguchi
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6033
  Title of Proceedings: ICO20: Optical Design and Fabrication
  Editors: James Breckinridge, Yongtian Wang
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6034
• ICO-19, 2002, Italy
  Optics for the Quality of Life
  Florence, Italy, Aug. 25-30, 2002
  Title of Proceedings: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life
  Editors: Giancarlo C. Righini, Anna Consortini
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume 4829
• ICO-18, 1999, United States of America
  Optics for the Next Millennium
  San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2-6, 1999
  Title of Proceedings: 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics
  Editors: Alexander J. Glass, Joseph W. Goodman, Milton Chang; Arthur H. Guenther; Toshimitsu Asakura
  Publisher: SPIE, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3749
• ICO-17, 1996, Korea
  Optics for Science and New Technology
  Taejon, Korea, Aug. 19-23, 1996
  Title of Proceedings: 17th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for Science and New Technology
  Editors: J. S. Chang, J. H. Lee, S. Y. Lee, C. H. Nam
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Vols. 2778 - Part 1 and Part 2
• ICO-16, 1993, Hungary
  Optics as a Key to High technology
  Budapest, Hungary, Aug 9-13, 1993
  Title of Proceedings: 16th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics as a Key to High Technology
  Editors: Gyorgy Akos; Tivadar Lippenyi; Gabor Lupkovics; Andras Podmaniczky
  Publisher: SPIE , Proceedings of SPIE Volume 1983.
• ICO-15, 1990, F.R. Germany
  Optics in complex systems
  Garmisch-Partenkirchen, FRG, Aug. 5-10, 1990.
  Title of Proceedings: Optics in complex systems
  Editors: F. Lanzl, H.-J. Preuss, G. Weigelt
  Publisher: SPIE, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 1319
• ICO-14, 1987, Canada
  Optics and the information age
  Quebec, Canada, Aug. 24-28 1987
  Title of Proceedings: Optics and the Information Age
  Editor: H. H. Arsenault
  Publisher: SPIE, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 813
• ICO-13, 1984, Japan
• ICO-12, 1981, Austria
• ICO-11, 1978, Spain
• ICO-10, 1975, Czechoslovakia
  Prague, Czechoslovakia , Aug. 25-29, 1975
• ICO-9, 1972, United States of America
  Space Optics
  Santa Monica, California, US, October 9-13, 1972
  Title of Proceedings: Space optics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of the International Commission for Optics.
  Editor(s): B. J. Thompson, R. R. Shannon
  Publisher: National Academy of Sciences. The National Academies press.
• ICO-8, 1969, United Kingdom
  Optical Instruments and techniques
  Whiteknights, July 14-19, 1969.
  Title of Proceedings: Optical Instruments and techniques
  Editor: J. Home Dickson
  Publisher: Oriel Press, Newcastle upon Tyne (1970).
• ICO-7, 1966, France
• ICO-6, 1962, F.R. Germany
• ICO-5, 1959, Sweden
• ICO-4, 1956, United States of America
• ICO-3, 1953, Spain
• ICO-2, 1950, United Kingdom
• ICO-1, 1948, The Netherlands
• (preliminary meetings had been held in Czechoslovakia and France).

ICO Topical & Regional Meetings

• ICO Topical Meeting on Optics and Energy
  Paris, France, October 26-29, 2010
• Topical Meeting on Emerging Trends & Novel Materials in Photonics
  Delphi, Greece, October 7-10,2009.
• Optics and Laser applications in medicine and environmental monitoring for sustainable development
  Cape Coast, Ghana, November 19-23, 2007.
• Topical Meeting on Optoinformatics & Information Photonics
  Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4-7, 2006
• Regional Meeting "V RIAO / VIII OPTILAS"
  Porlamar, Venezuela, October 3-8, 2004
  Title of Proceedings: 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications
  Editors: Aristides Marcano O., Jose Luis Paz
  Publisher: SPIE, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 5622
• Topical Meeting: Optics and Photonics in Technology Frontier, ICO'04
  Tokyo, Japan, July 12-15, 2004.
• Topical Meeting: Polarization Optics
  Polvijärvi, Finland, June 30-July 3, 2003
  Titrle of Procedings: Special issue on Polarization Optics
  Editors: Jari Turunen, Asher A Friesem and Ari T Friberg
  Publisher: Inst. of Physics Publ., Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Vol 6, Nr 3, 2004.
• Information Optics 2001
  Caesarea, Israel, September 9, 2001.
• Topical Meeting: Optical Science and Applications for Sustainable Development
  Dakar, Senegal, April 2000.
• Topical Meeting: Optics for the Information Infrastructure
  Tianjin, China, August 3-6, 1998
• International Conference on Frontiers in Information Optics
  Kyoto, Japan, April 4-8, 1994
  Title of Proceedings: Frontiers of Information Optics
  Editor: T. Asakura
  Publisher: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (special issue).

Other Meeting Series

ICO participates in two meeting series through steering committees, namely Optics in Computing and ETOP.

• Bylaws of the Steering Committee for the Optical Computing international topical meetings series (OC'xx)
• Long-Range Guidance, Sponsorship and Management of Education & Training in Optics & Photonics (ETOP) Conference