📍About the Event

The 9th International Conference on Optics, Photonics and Lasers (OPAL’ 2026) in Ibiza (Balearic Islands), Spain, aims to convene leading researchers, engineers, innovators, and industry practitioners to present and discuss the latest advances shaping the future of light-based science and technology. Building on OPAL Conference Series mission of interdisciplinary exchange, OPAL’ 2026 places special emphasis on the new performance, scalability, sustainability, and security challenges emerging as photonics becomes a foundational enabler of quantum technologies, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, next-generation communications, and precision healthcare.

OPAL’ 2026 is designed as a high-impact forum to accelerate translation from fundamental discovery to deployable systems—spanning optical materials, photonic and optoelectronic devices, lasers, metrology, and real-world applications. We welcome contributions that advance the generation, control, and detection of light across the spectrum (UV to THz), as well as work that integrates photonics with electronics, mechanics, biology, and computation. Particular attention is encouraged for research addressing reliability, packaging, manufacturability, energy efficiency, and lifecycle sustainability, reflecting the realities of scaling photonic technologies from laboratory prototypes to industrial and societal deployment.

OPAL’ 2026 also strengthens the conference’s focus on modeling, simulation, data-driven design, and experimental reproducibility, including multi-physics co-design, AI/ML-assisted discovery, digital twins, and benchmarked datasets for photonics. Through keynote lectures, technical sessions, and dedicated networking formats, the conference supports deep technical exchange and new collaborations—helping the community push boundaries in performance while meeting the practical constraints of cost, robustness, safety, and standards.

Similar to the previous OPAL conferences, the 9th International Conference on Optics, Photonics and Lasers (OPAL' 2025) will incorporate three symposiums covering a broaden range in optics, photonics and lasers, and provide an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and present latest advancements in these areas. The OPAL' 2026 will be organized by the IFSA - professional, non-profit association serving for industry and academy since 1999 (https://sensorsportal.com/).

The previous OPAL Series of Conference:

OPAL’ 2018 (Barcelona, Spain)
OPAL' 2019 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
OPAL' 2020 (virtual format)
OPAL' 2021 (Corfu, Greece)
OPAL' 2022 (Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain)
OPAL' 2023 (Funchal (Madeira Island), Portugal)
OPAL' 2024 (Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands), Spain)
OPAL' 2025 (Rhodes, Greece)

have attracted many researchers and practitioners in the related fields, from around the world and all continents, who have presented the latest results covering theory, design, device technology and applications.


✉️ List of Topics

The conference is focusing any significant breakthrough and innovation in optics, photonics, lasers and its applications:

Optics:

* Optical and Fibre Optical Sensors and Instrumentation
* Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MOEMS)
* Physical Optics
* Adaptive Optics
* Optoelectronic Devices
* Organic Optoelectronics
* Optical Communications, Switching and Networks
* High-speed Opto-electronic Networking
* Optical Fiber Technology: Materials, Devices and Systems
* Optical Information Processing
* Holography
* Optical Metrology
* Optical Imaging Systems and Machine Vision
* Optical Computing
* Guided Wave Optics
* Optics in Condensed and Soft Matter
* Quantum Optics
* Nonlinear Optics
* Nano and Micro Optics
* Matter Waves
* Quantum Information
* Bio and Medical Optics
* Optical Materials, Characterization Methods and Techniques
* Optical Methods for Process Control
* Microscopy and Adaptive Optics
* Engineering Applications of Spectroscopy
* Optical Microscopy of Composites
Printed Optical Waveguides


Photonics:

* Photonic Sensors
* Photodetectors
* Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)
* Photonic Integration and Packaging
* Photonic Crystals
* Silicon Photonics
* Biophotonics
* Microwave Photonics
* Nanophotonics
* Photonic Materials and Metameterials
* Quantum Photonics
* Terahertz Photonics
* Photonic Computing
* Organic Photonic Materials and Devices
* 2D Photonic Materials and Devices
* Photonic Instrumentation Engeneering
* Applications of Photonic Technologies


Lasers:

* Laser Science
* Laser and laser optics
* Semiconductor Lasers
* Laser Metrology
* Chemical Gas Lasers
* Fiber Lasers
* Nonlinear Lasers
* Laser Propulsion
* Lasers and LEDs
* Laser Nanotechnology
* Laser Spectroscopy and Microscopy
* Laser Applications
* Lasers in Medicine and Biology
* Ultrafast Laser-Matter Interaction


📣 Contribution Types:

• Keynote and invited presentations
• Industrial presentations
• Regular papers
• Posters
• Special sessions
• Round tables and panel discussion
• Exhibition (see Sponsorship Package)

🖋️ Special Sessions:

Authors are welcome to organize and manage special sessions during the conference. Each session will contain 4-6 papers in a related field as specified above or proposed by a session organizer.

Session organizers will get:

* Certificate of Appreciation
* Free Registration for the Event


✏️✏️✏️ One Event - 3 Different Publications !

1) All registered abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings with the ISBN and DOI, distributed during before the conference and submitted for indexing to the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics (formerly known as Thomson Reuters) and Scopus.

2) Authors will be invited to submit full-page extended papers to a special issues of one of the following open access journal:

Sensors & Transducers open access journal (ISSN: 2306-8515, e-ISSN: 1726-5479), special issue on 'Optics, Photonics & Lasers: Sensors and Measuring Systems', or indexed in Scopus or other affiliated indexed open access journal.

3) Authors will be invited also to submit open access books' chapters for the popular Book Series on ' Advances in Optics: Reviews', Vol. 8, which will be published by IFSA Publishing at the end of 2026 and submitted for indexing in the Book Citation Index (Wed of Science) by Clarivate Analytics.

🏝️Venue

The OPAL' 2026 Conference will be held in Ibiza Twiins hotel, Ibiza (Balearic Islands), Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8P08-VhybA