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WELCOME TO ISOM’26
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The 36th ISOM (ISOM’26) will be held from Oct. 25 to Oct. 28, 2026 at ACT CITY HAMAMATSU in Shizuoka, Japan.
On behalf of the ISOM organizing committee, I am delighted to welcome all of you to the ISOM’26.
The previous symposium, held in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan, brought together 120 participants from six countries and regions. A total of 87 papers were presented, including 15 invited talks and special lectures. Attendees enjoyed engaging in face-to-face discussions, exchanging ideas, and strengthening relationships through both technical sessions and social activities.
We believe that ISOM’s activities have been highly fruitful, yielding significant achievements. Since the first ISOM in 1987, numerous papers have been presented and discussed in depth at the symposium, leading to new developments and applications in the field of optical memory. These contributions have not only driven innovation in optical memory technology but have also supported the economic growth of industries related to optical memory.
In 2017, ISOM broadened its scope to include a wider range of optical fields and applications, and subsequently changed its name to the International Symposium on Imaging, Sensing, and Optical Memory. The renewed ISOM now encompasses image sensing, medical and bio-optics, nano-photonics, information systems, holographic technologies, as well as optical memory. We believe this expansion will foster technological innovation and create new applications across all areas represented at the symposium.
I sincerely encourage all participants of ISOM’26 to actively engage in discussions on next-generation optical memory technologies and their novel applications.
Takanori Nomura
ISOM’26 Organizing Committee, Chairperson
INTRODUCTION
The 36th ISOM (ISOM’26) will be held from Oct. 25 to 28, 2026, in Hamamatsu, Japan.
The origin of ISOM is SOM (Symposium on Optical Memory), which was first held in Tokyo in 1985 as a domestic Japanese symposium. The first ISOM (International Symposium on Optical Memory) was also held in Tokyo in 1987. Until 1994, ISOM and SOM were held alternately every other year, and since 1995, ISOM has been held every year. The total number of papers of the past symposia has reached 3,999, and the total number of participants has reached 11,193.
The purpose of the symposium was to provide a forum for information exchange on a broad range of topics covering science and technology in optical memory and its related fields. However, the explosion of information on the internet and in cloud services has been driving optical memory to shift from consumer storage to enterprise storage. Many of our colleagues have been seeking new frontiers of optical memory technologies. Given this situation, the scopes of ISOM are continuously updated and were reorganized in 2016. To further highlight them, the official name of ISOM was changed from “International Symposium on Optical Memory” to “International Symposium on Imaging, Sensing, and Optical Memory” in 2017. Paper submissions related to the new scopes, as well as the conventional ones, are strongly encouraged.
At ISOM’26, in this vein, we look forward to discussions on the current status of optical memory, imaging, sensing, and related technologies. Over the last three years, a large number of papers, including new topics such as artificial intelligence, were presented, and many participants had fruitful discussions.
We appreciate your participation as presenters and audience, and we are looking forward to seeing you in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM
ISOM’26 will focus on the latest progress and research in Optical Memory, Imaging, Sensing, and Other Related Technologies.
The symposium provides a platform for sharing advances and exchanging ideas, fostering scientific networking and collaboration across these fields.
Topics to be covered in this symposium include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions on topics listed in the First Call for Papers but not listed below are also welcome.
- Optical Memory
- Holographic Memory
- Optical Disk
- Media and Material Science
- Archival Memory
- Photonic Circuit Storage
- Other related topics
- Imaging
- Digital Holography
- Computational Imaging
- Display
- Scattering and Fluctuation Imaging
- Industrial Inspection & Metrology
- Imaging Hardware & System Integration
- Multispectral, IR and THz Imaging
- Other related topics
- Sensing
- LiDAR
- Three-dimensional Sensing
- Human-centered Sensing
- Environmental and Infrastructure Sensing
- Quantum Sensing
- Other related topics
- Other Related Technologies
- Materials, Components, and Devices
- Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics
- Optical Neural Networks
- Optical Information and System Design
- System Integration and Miniaturization
- Other related topics
