A Brief History
In 2005 University of Latvia SPIE student chapter organized a conference called Development in Optics and Photonics 2005 (or DOP for short) which was predecessor of DOC. About 40 participants took part in DOP representing Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus and USA. Dr. Katarina Svanberg was invited as keynote speaker.
The conference Developments in Optics and Communications has been evolving successfully for the past decade. The conference traditionally features invited and contributed talks in five sections:
- Biophotonics
- Laser physics and spectroscopy
- Optical materials and phenomena
- Optics in communication
- Vision science