BICOP 2026 — IEEE British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics (BICOP)

BICOP is the IEEE Photonics Society UK & Ireland conference on optics and photonics, run by the IEEE UK and Ireland Photonics chapter. It invites original contributions on optical communications, quantum photonics, optical sensing, imaging, integrated photonics, photonics for climate and sustainability, lasers. Submissions may take the form of full research papers, extended abstracts and poster presentations reporting theoretical, computational and experimental work, as well as industrial case studies and applications. The meeting brings together researchers, engineers, industry practitioners and students to exchange recent results and discuss emerging directions in the field. Accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.