IOP Groups
The Optical Group
The Optics of Free Space Optical Communications
1/2-day meeting: 1:00pm Monday 18 December 2006
The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1N 3DH
The Optical Group is concerned with all aspects of the physics and technology of optics and its applications. It is currently the largest of the Institute's groups with over 900 members.
Its role is to serve the full breadth of the optics community as a forum for communication and to support its interests within the Institute and more widely. A major activity of the Group is to organise short specialist technical meetings on topics chosen by its members, held approximately monthly. Every two years, the Group is a major contributor to the Institute's Applied Optics Division Conference.
Meetings are often held jointly with organizations. Each is normally on a particular topic, except for one meeting a year which is reserved for short contributions on unspecified subjects to provide an opportunity for new topics to be discussed and new speakers to be heard. Subjects vary widely over both theoretical and practical aspects of optics and include regions of the spectrum from x-rays to microwaves. Important aspects of the Group's outlook are to ensure communication between the academic, industrial and government establishment sectors, and to promote contact with optical workers in other countries. In this context close contact is maintained with the European Optical Society, and also the Optical Society of America, SPIE, the International Commission for Optics and the Optics Division of the European Physical Society.
The programme for the first Scientific Annual Meeting of the EOS is now available here.
The pages for the Group are currently being transferred to the new Institute of Physics website. Until this process is complete the original pages for the Group can be accessed here.
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