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The SPIE Digital Library is the world’s largest
collection of optics & photonics applied research.
With more than 320,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors,
defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Libraryis the most extensive database available on optics and photonics research.

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SPIE is the largest organizer ofconferences, workshops, andsymposia in the ﬁeld of optics
and photonics with over 300conferences occurring annually.
SPIE Proceedings are the richoutcome of these events,
providing you with a snapshot ofwhat’s happening—right now.
305,000+ articles from 1990 tothe present.
Technologies covered:- Astronomy and Astronomical Optics- Biomedical Optics and MedicalImaging- Communication and Information
Technologies- Defense and Industrial Sensing- Electronic Imaging and Processing- Micro- and Nano- Technologies- Optics and Electro-Optics

Journals
15,000+ peer-reviewed journal
articles:- Optical Engineering- Journal of Biomedical Optics- Journal of Electronic Imaging- Journal of Micro/Nanolithography,
MEMS, and MOEMS- Journal of Applied Remote Sensing- Journal of Nanophotonics- Journal of Photonics for EnergyeBooks
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eBooksSPIE eBooks bring more than150 valuable SPIE Press titles- monographs and reference
works, ﬁeld guides, and tutorial
texts - to researchers’ desktops
on the same user-friendly SPIE
Digital Library platform as SPIE
Proceedings and Journals. At
least 15 new titles and editions
are added to this collection eachyear.
Not all institutions subscribe toSPIE eBooks. If you are unable
to access this SPIE content, you
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constituents from 138 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies throughinterdisciplinary 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 2010, the Society provided more than $2.3 million in support ofeducation and outreach programs around the world.

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