This year’s Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science took place from September, 16 to 20, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., USA. With more than 1,200 attendees the annual conference and exhibition is an ideal platform for science and industry to discuss topics where optics and photonics have become key technologies of the present and future. The academic and interdisciplinary sessions enable fruitful collaborations between various fields such as Automotive, Nanophotonics and Plasmonics, Optics in Computing, and Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision. Menlo Systems was showing its latest developments in Optical Frequency Comb and laser technology, and also presented its new circular multipass IRcell for trace gas spectroscopy.