This workshop is part of Complex Light and Optical Forces XVI.

In this special session we will cover the experimental techniques of controlling optical light fields that are central to a wide variety of novel scientific advances. Attendees will get hands-on training in several fundamental procedures and will be introduced to equipment that could be integrated into their future research. The session will be designed to accommodate both students and experienced researchers with a passion to learn new skills.

The topics that will be focused on are:

• getting to grips with spatial light modulators
• structuring light with digital micromirror devices
• undergraduate laboratories with single photons
• 3D printing for design of optical instruments.

Attendees will get to speak with experienced researchers in the field and learn new techniques that they could deploy within future experiments.

Moderator:
Martin P. J. Lavery, Univ. of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

Instructors:
Richard Bowman, Univ. of Bath (United Kingdom)
Mitchell A. Cox, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Angela Louise Dudley, Univ of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg (South Africa)
Enrique J. Galvez, Colgate Univ. (United States)



Open to all Photonics West paid conference attendees.