Membership
The EOS today has more than 6,500 societal, corporate, individual, associate and student members from all over Europe and worldwide.
Membership Modes:
- Individual Membership
- Student Membership
- Individual membership through an EOS Branch
- Associate membership through an EOS Affiliated Society
- Direct Corporate Membership
- Corporate Membership through an EOS Branch or an EOS Affiliated Society
Societal Members: 22 national optical societies are members (10 branches, 12 affiliated societies) of the EOS:
- Belgium : Comité Belge d'Optique - Belgian Optical Committee (CBO-BCO) ; Promoptica)
- Czech Republic and Slovak Republic: Czech and Slovak Society for Photonics (CSSF)
- Denmark: Danish Optical Society (DOPS)
- Finland: Finnish Optical Society (FOS)
- France: Société Françaises d’Optique (SFO)
- Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angewandte Optik (DGaO); Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Lasertechnik e.V. (WLT)
- Italy: Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF)
- Hungary: Hungarian Optical Society (HOS),
- Latvia: Latvian Optical Society (LOS)
- Netherlands: Dutch Physical Society – Optics Section DPS-OS)
- Poland: Polish Physical Society – Optics Division (PPS)
- Romania: Division of Optics & Quantum Electronics of the Romanian Physical Society (DOQE-RPS)
- Russia: Laser Association (LAS); Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (ROS)
- Sweden: Swedish Optical Society (SOS)
- Switzerland: Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy (SSOM)
- Ukraine: Ukrainian Society of Pure and Applied Optics (USPAO)
- United Kingdom and Ireland: Institute of Physics Optical Group (IOP)
Corporate members: 38 companies are corporate members of the EOS.
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