SPIE, International Society for Optics & Photonics

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, and organizes dozens of conferences annually, including SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing - home to 62 important scientific conferences on optics, imaging, and sensing, and a 500-plus company exhibition. Defense, Security, and Sensing takes place every spring in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, the SPIE Digital Library houses more than 380,000 technical papers in cutting-edge technologies such as sensors, lasers, imaging, nanotechnology, solar energy, biophotonics, and communications.