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Membership Renewal

OSA members access to the most essential information, contacts and services in the field. Renew your membership, and stay connected to the world’s leading scientists, educators, engineers, students and business professionals with an interest in optics and photonics. Members receive a wide range of benefits including:

Three free publication subscriptions
Members-only networking and online services
Substantial meeting registration and subscription discounts
Awards and distinctions
Career services
and much more!

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Learn more about OSA 5-Year and Lifetime Membership

Ways to renew your OSA membership:

Online

Please login below using your email address and OSA password. If you do not know your password, please try inputting the OSA membership number that appears on your member identification card. If you would like to have your password emailed to you, please click here.

Phone: +1.202.416.1907 or 800.766.4672

Note: Customer Service Department days/hours of operation -- Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time.

Mail or Fax:

Complete and return the member enrollment form:

Address: OSA
Membership Department
P.O. Box 1976
Baltimore, MD 21298-8329 USA
Fax: +1.202.416.6130

Forms of Payment

Payment is due upon receipt and may be paid by check, money order, bank transfer or credit card. Please make checks payable to the Optical Society of America. Foreign remitters, please pay in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank. Bank fees are the responsibility of the member.

Monthly Membership Magazines - Your dues includes a non-deductible allocation of $3.29 for Physics Today and $7.00 for Optics & Photonics News.