WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc. announced today that Dr. Ashok K. Sood, President and CEO, will be chairing the SPIE conference on Infrared and Photoelectronic Imagers and Detector Devices session at the SPIE Annual Symposium on Photonic Devices and Applications to be held on 10-14 August 2008 in San Diego, CA. This session will address advances in infrared detectors for optical applications. Magnolia will also present a paper on its recent work in evaluation of Silicon MEMS technology based microbolometer IR Sensors for defense applications.