- Atmospheric and ocean optics
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Bio photonics and biomedical applications
- Coherence and statistical optics
- Diffraction and gratings
- Fiber optics, sensors and optical communications
- Fourier optics and signal processing
- Geometric optics
- Image processing, vision and artificial intelligence
- Imaging systems
- Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
- Integrated optics
- Laser and laser optics
- Machine vision
- Materials Processing with Lasers
- Medical optics and biotechnology
- Microscopy
- Nano photonics and metamaterials
- Nonlinear optics
- Novel optical materials and 3D printing
- Optics in computing
- Optical data storage
- Optical design and fabrication
- Optical devices
- Optical micro and nano manipulation including optofluidics and microfluidics
- Optics at surfaces
- Optoelectronics, Detectors and Sources
- Organic and hybrid optoelectronics
- Physical optics
- Quantum optics
- Remote sensing and sensors
- Scattering
- Spectroscopy
- Thin films
- THz, microwaves and millimeter-waves photonics
- Ultrafast optics
- Vision, color, and visual optics
- X-ray optics
