As the most anticipated optics and photonics show of the year, SPIE Photonics West brought together the global engineering community each year to advance the science of manipulating light. From a great attendance to our talks hosted by Dr. David Biss on “Correlating final system performance metrics with design metrics of optical imaging systems in biomedical devices” and “Sensitivity to temperature variation in monometallic Cassegrains” to business driving conversations on optical innovations and a meaningful …