Welcome to the International Commission for Optics (ICO).

ICO is a Scientific Associate of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and an Affiliated Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

ICO News

• ICO Newsletter - Latest Issue (Now available as Newsletter PDF)


• New Volume on ICO International Trends in Optics:
  Volume VI: Advances in Information Optics and Photonics
  A.T. Friberg and R. Dandliker (Eds.)


• Winter College on Optics in Environmental Science (2.07 MB PDF)
  Miramare-Trieste, Italy
  2 - 13 February 2009


• Call for ICO Awards
  • ICO Galileo Galilei 2009 PDF Poster
  • ICO Prize 2009 PDF Poster
  • ICO/ICTP "Gallieno Denardo" Award 2009 PDF Poster


• ICO is a Scientific Associate of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
  • Announcement (PDF)
  • Slide Show (PDF)


• 2005 ICO Triennial Report (Also available as a 4.6MB PDF)


• Volume V published in Applied Optics series


• Optics in Latin America (PDF)


• President's Message


• Forthcoming 22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics
  Chair: Dr. Fernando Mendoza Santoyo
  Co-Chair: Prof. Alejandro Cornejo
  Puebla, Mexico (August 2011)


• PROCEEDINGS OF ETOP NOW ON-LINE!!