SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is a not-for-profit organization for optics and photonics. It runs and sponsors technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs, and provides financial support for education and outreach programs. The organization also provides a collection of optics and photonics applied research with papers from SPIE journals, conference proceedings and presentations, and eBooks. The areas of research span biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging.