SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance lightbased 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.

SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North
America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.

In 2017, SPIE provided $4 million in support of education and outreach programs.

SPIE publishes the SPIE Digital Library, containing more than 463,000 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 320 eBooks from the SPIE
Press catalog. The SPIE Press publishes print monographs, tutorial texts, Field Guides, and reference books. SPIE also
publishes a wide variety of open access content.