7-8th November 2022 via zoom

The Friedrich Schiller University Jena has organized a two-day workshop on structured light and its applications. The workshop aimed to foster exchange of ideas and disseminate the state of the art in the field of structured light. By including different aspects of the vast field of structured light, the goal is to provide a comprehensive view on this exciting field, to nurture new ideas by the meeting of specialists in different sub-fields, and eventually to pave the way to new collaborations between researchers with complementary expertise.

The workshop was intended both for established and young researchers -PhD students, early stage researchers and highly motivated Master students- who want either to learn how to exploit all the degrees of freedom of a light beam for their own research, or to find new ideas to pursue along their academic career.

We invited submissions in the general area of structured light with topics including but were not limited to:

• Sub-wavelength design of photonic devices
• Optical angular momentum and its manipulation
• Structured beams for optical tweezing
• Complex polarization states for information processing in the classical and in the quantum regime
• Geometric phase in optics
• Spin-orbit interaction in photonics
• Tunable beam shaping using liquid crystals
• Optical metasurfaces for beam shaping
• Nonlinear optics with structured beams
• Light-matter interaction with structured beams