Chinese Optics Letters Workshop: Spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials

Time: August 7, 2023

Venue: Sofitel Xi'an on Renmin Square Hotel, Xi’an

Description

Recently, there has been growing interest in the study of complex optical fields with tailored space-time characteristics. These sculptured spatiotemporal optical fields bring additional dimensions for fundamental studies in classic and quantum optics, and opens opportunities for applications ranging from super-resolution imaging, nanofabrication, optical manipulation, high-dimensional communication to quantum information.

Meanwhile, the quest for time-varying optical materials has also led to significant interest growth.  compared with conventional time-invariant media, such media provide a new degree of freedom to control electromagnetic fields and light-matter interactions in both time and space, bringing us surprising physical effects such as nontrivial frequency shifting, optical nonreciprocity, floquet topological phase, and so on. The time materials also provide a possible route to generate and tailor spatiotemporal optical fields.

This Chinese Optics Letters Workshop will present recent advances in spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials, from fundamental theories, novel physical properties, to a wide range of applications.

Organizers

Yanqing Lu, Nanjing University, China

Qiwen Zhan, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China

Chenhao Wan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Wei Chen, Nanjing University, China

Qian Cao, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China

Invited Speakers