Scope

INTRODUCTION

The 35th ISOM (ISOM’25) will be held from Oct. 19 to 22 at Light Cube Utsunomiya, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

The origin of ISOM is SOM (Symposium on Optical Memory), which was held firstly in 1985 in Tokyo as a Japanese domestic symposium. The first ISOM (International Symposium on Optical Memory) was held in 1987 also in Tokyo. 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 symposiums has reached 3,897, and the total number of participants has reached 11,063.

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, information explosion in the internet and cloud service has been enforcing optical memory to change from that for consumer storage to that for enterprise storage. Many colleagues of us have been seeking for new frontiers of optical memory technologies. Considering this situation, the scopes of ISOM are being continuously updated and have been 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 would be strongly encouraged.

In ISOM’25, along this direction, it will be highly expected to discuss the current status of optical memory, imaging, sensing, and other related technologies. In ISOM’23 and ’24, the largest number of papers, including new topics such as artificial intelligence were presented, and many participants made fruitful discussions. So, please present your latest results at ISOM’25, and make meaningful information exchange and fruitful discussion. In principle, ISOM’25 will be held face-to-face style, but some invited talks may be presented through online.

We are looking forward to your paper submission and seeing you Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM

ISOM’25 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 followings. Submissions on topics listed in the First Call for Paper but not listed below are also welcome.

  1. Optical Memory
    • Holographic Memory
    • Optical Disk
    • Media and Material Science
    • Archival Memory
    • Photonic Circuit Storage
    • Others
  2. Imaging
    • Digital Holography
    • Computational Imaging
    • Display
    • Medical and Biological Imaging
    • Scattering and Fluctuation Imaging
    • Adaptive Optics
    • Others
  3. Sensing
    • LiDAR
    • Three-dimensional Sensing
    • Human-centered Sensing
    • Environmental and Infrastructure Sensing
    • Quantum Sensing
    • Others
  4. Other Related Technologies
    • Materials, Components, and Devices
    • Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics
    • Optical Neural Networks
    • Optical Information and System Design
    • System Integration and Miniaturization
    • Others