Part 1: Invited Speakers -- Chapter 1. Trends in Manufacturing for Aspheric & Freeform Optics -- Chapter 2. Silicon Photonics-based Gas Sensors and Components for the mid-IR: Design and Modelling -- Chapter 3. Pixel reassignment in image scanning microscopy -- Chapter 4. Compact and field portable biophotonic sensors for automated cell identification (Plenary Address) -- Chapter 5. Wavefront Coding with Jacobi-Fourier phase masks to alleviate random aberrations -- Chapter 6. Designing Submicron Chiral Structure through Phase Engineered Multi-Beam Interference -- Chapter 7. Advanced IR Zoom Lenses for Next Generation Thermal Imaging Applications -- Chapter 8. Advanced Infrared Photodetectors at SCD -- Chapter 9. Characteristics Of One Dimensional Photonics Structures Having Different Types Of Sequences -- CHapter 10. Deep-learning-based dynamic range compression for 3D scene hologram -- Chapter 11. Mode spectra and vortex beam sorting via digital intensity processing -- Chapter 12. Speckle-free digital holographic phase microscopy and tomography using partially spatially coherent monochromatic light with improved image sharpness, resolution and phase noise -- Chapter 13 -- Biospeckle Analysis Technique: Some Recent Applications -- Chapter 14. Using Femtosecond Coherent Oscillations to unravel Dynamics -- Chapter 15. Using Femtosecond Coherent Oscillations to unravel Dynamics -- Chapter 16. Suppression of UV emission in ZnO nanorods Complex Systems -- Part 2: Adaptive Optics -- Chapter 17. Features of FPGA using in a fast adaptive optical system -- Chapter 18. Controlling the Degree of Polarization of Speckles from Birefringent Scatterer -- Part 3: Diffractive Optics -- Chapter 19. Experimental demonstration of diffraction of vector field singularities through diamond shaped aperture -- Chapter 20. Controlled generation of self-images of a Microlens array and the second harmonic Talbot effect. Chapter 21. Design of Diffractive Optical Elements for Shaping the Laser Intensity Distribution. Chapter 22. Electromagnetically induced grating in a 3-level symmetric quantum well -- Chapter 23. Axicon Aberration Generated Tunable Optical Arrays -- Chapter 24. Crafting correlation structure by interference -- Chapter 25. Design of polarization independent silicon nitride one-dimensional gratings using genetic algorithm -- Part 4: Optics & Electro-optics for Strategic Applications -- CHapter 26. Effect of Background Radiation on Laser Receiver having Large Field of View -- Chapter 27. Temperature Compensated Dynamic Strain Measurement using Twin Fiber Bragg Gratings and Tunable Laser Interrogation with Noise Cancelation -- Chapter 28. Geo High Resolution Camera An experimental eye in space - its Integration Challenges and Mitigation -- Chapter 29. Photodiode transimpedance configuration with dc compensation -- Chapter 30. Concept of Programmable Range Electro-optical Sensor.