Introduction

摘要

These proceedings document the 2013 conference on Material Technologies and Applications to Optics, Structures, Components, and Sub-Systems. The conference took place from 26 August to 28 August 2013, as part of the broader Optics + Photonics Meeting in San Diego, California, USA. This was the inaugural conference in this area, expanding upon the scope of the previous conference on Optical Materials and Structures Technologies. The conference began with a Joint Session with the UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts conference, we thank those Conference Chairs, Dr. Howard A. MacEwen (Reviresco LLC) and Dr. James B. Breckinridge (Univ. of Arizona and Cal Tech), for collaborating with us and coordinating a well-attended and interesting opening session which covered a wide range of topics including low expansion glasses, SiC, and refractive materials, with an excellent capstone presentation from Dr. H. Philip Stahl, describing mirror technology development activities being led by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.