This is the biennial conference of the Optics and Photonics Division (formerly the Applied Optics Division) that brings together researchers in the fields of the Optical, Materials and Characterisation, Instrument Science and Technology groups.

The programme will include focused sessions on:

• Advances in imaging
• Advances in terahertz technology *
• Biophotonics *
• Computational photonics
• Diffractive optics
• Fibre optics and waveguides
• Fibre optic sensors
• Fringe Analysis Special Interest Group (FASIG)
• Laser physics
• Non-linear optics
• Optical and quantum metrology *
• Optical diagnostic engineering
• Optical environmental sensing
• Optical tweezing and micro-manipulation
• Optics and microfluidics
• Polarisation optics
• Singular optics and vortices *
• X-ray and UV optics

Optics and Photonics 2010 will also encompass sessions of the Fringe Analysis Special Interest Group (FASIG), which is devoted to the latest innovations in interferometry, photomechanics and optical metrology including their applications.

Papers describing research in the following areas are particularly encouraged:

• new measurement and analysis techniques
• phase shifting and phase unwrapping
• high-speed measurements on solids and fluids
• micromeasurement techniques and applications
• shape measurement and 3D machine vision
• optical coherence tomography in biomechanics and engineering
• phase-contrast tomographic methods
• phase-contrast microscopy
• digital holography
• optical diffraction tomography