SPIE proceedings LaTeX template
Proceedings of SPIE (optics and photonics conferences)

Start a paper with this template
Free account. Your paper compiles in the browser on TeX Live 2026.
What it is
- Class
- spie
- Version tested
- TeX Live's current
- Tested with
- spie 2007/04/14 v3.25 SPIE Proceedings class in TeX Live 2026 as installed where we tested (tlmgr revision 77655)
- Licence of the class
- LPPL
- Licence of our starter
- CC0-1.0 (written by Sapience from the class documentation; use it freely)
- Official source
- www.spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/authors-and-presenters/format-your-manuscript
How the files arrive
The class is part of TeX Live 2026, which Papers compiles with, so nothing is copied: your paper gets our starter files (main.tex and a refs.bib with one example citation).
Format
One column, the SPIE proceedings layout
The venue's own instructions are the rule: www.spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/authors-and-presenters/format-your-manuscript.
RevTeX 4-2
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