Scope
INTRODUCTION
The 36th ISOM (ISOM’26) will be held from Oct. 25 to 28 at ACT CITY HAMAMATSU in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, 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 3,984, and the total number of participants has reached 11,183.
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 information explosion in internet and cloud services has been forcing optical memory to shift from consumer storage to enterprise storage. Many of our colleagues have been seeking 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 are strongly encouraged.
In ISOM’26, following this direction, we highly anticipate discussions on the current status of optical memory, imaging, sensing, and other 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. So, please present your latest results at ISOM’26, and make meaningful information exchange and fruitful discussion. In principle, ISOM’26 will be held in a face-to-face style, but online presentations will also be accepted.
We are looking forward to your paper submission and 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
