The Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP) conference series, which has been held every two years in December since 2013, integrates the Australian Optical Society (AOS) conference, the Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS), and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT).

ANZCOP2021 and 2022

We are thrilled to announce that ANZCOP21 is running in online mode on November 18-19, 2021! 
Watch the main conference page and @OpticsAUNZ on twitter for the call for papers and requests for volunteer Node Champions.

ANCOP2022 will take place in Adelaide in early December 2022, co-located with the Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibres.

ANZCOP2019

ANZCOP 2019 took place over five days, 8-12 December 2019, in the recently built ‘New Academic Street’ RMIT University campus on Swanston Street in the Melbourne CBD, Australia.

Organisation

By AOS in collaboration with other professional societies such as SPIE and Engineers Australia. 

History

ANZCOP 2013 was held in Perth and ANZCOP 2015 was held in Adelaide.

The following table lists all the ANZCOP conferences with links to websites and proceedings where available:

#	Year	Location	Details of Event	Proceedings	Website
4	2019	Melbourne, VIC	2019 Australian and New Zealand Conferences on Optics and Photonics  8 - 12 December 2019		spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/anzcop
3	2017	Queenstown, NZ	The 3rd Australia New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics  4 - 7 December 2017		www.anzcop2017.nz
2	2015	Adelaide, SA	2015 Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics  29 November - 3 December 2015
1	2013	Perth, WA	2013 Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics  8 - 11 December 2013		www.2013anzcop.com