Submission

The Optics and Photonics Days academic and industry conference program consists of submitted contributions as well as invited talks, plenary speakers, panel discussions and other related activity. Both sessions include oral presentations and poster presentations for which you may submit your abstract for review by the program committee and additional expert reviewers.

Process for submission

• Descriptions for Academic program topics TBA
• Submissions are sent through Conftool by selecting the topic(s) that best suits your submission.
• The abstract is to be submitted no later than 28th February 2026 in the conference registration and submission portal

Minimum requirements for submission are

• Typographical instructions for the submissions are listed in the abstract template, which is available in Microsoft Word -format and LaTeX-format. The maximum length for the abstract is 1 page. The template for submission is available here: Submission template for OPD.
• Submission type select (preferred oral or poster presentation),
• All authors, email addresses and organizations; list of authors must be identical to the submitted pdf-file,
• Title of Contribution,
• A short summary of the work (max 3 000 characters)

Poster session details and schedule

• Poster size is A0 (841 x 1189 mm), poster stands are 88 x 118 cm, pins will be provided.
• We do not print the posters for you.
• There will be two poster sessions (Wednesday & Thursday from 1PM to 2PM).
• Posters can be set in place in the morning of your session starting from 8AM. The sessions will be announced closer to the event.
• Poster walls will be located at OPD venue / Paviljonki
• If you have additional questions regarding poster session, please contact Iiro Muhonen, iiro.muhonen@uef.fi.