Pacifico Yokohama
Yokohama, Japan

18–21 April 2023

Optical Manipulation and Structured
Materials Conference (OMC 2023)
Program Committee: Masaaki Ashida, Osaka Univ. (Japan); Satoshi Ashihara, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan);Yung-Fu Chen, National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan); Hajime Ishihara, Osaka Prefecture Univ. (Japan);Yasuyuki Kimura, Kyushu Univ. (Japan); Kyoko Kitamura, Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan); Yuichi Kozawa,
Tohoku Univ. (Japan); Yoko Miyamoto, The Univ. of Electro-Communications (Japan); Ryuji Morita, Hokkaido
Univ. (Japan); Kei Murakoshi, Hokkaido Univ. (Japan); Kyoko Namura, Kyoto Univ. (Japan); Kyunghwan Oh,Yonsei Univ. (Korea, Republic of); Seigo Ohno, Tohoku Univ. (Japan); Hiromi Okamoto, Institute for MolecularScience (Japan); Keiji Sasaki, Hokkaido Univ. (Japan); Ichiro Shoji, Chuo Univ. (Japan); Yasuhiro Sugawara,
Osaka Univ. (Japan); Xiaodi Tan, Fujian Normal Univ. (China); Yasuyuki Tsuboi, Osaka City Univ. (Japan);Nirmal Viswanathan, Univ. of Hyderabad (India)
Conventional optical tweezers based on optical radiation
forces (scattering, absorption and gradient forces) produced by a tightly focused laser beam have been primarily
applied to particles with a dimension range from hundredsof nanometers to tens of micrometers. However, they do
not always enable us to efficiently trap and manipulate
particles at the nanoscale. New technology that significantly reinforces optical radiation at the nanoscale has
been strongly desired.
Sub-wavelength structured materials, including metamaterials, metasurfaces, and photonic crystals, provides new
research opportunities for optical manipulation and structured optical field generation beyond the capabilities ofbulk-optics approaches. Furthermore, interaction between
structured optical fields and matters on the sub-wavelength scale will produce new physical effects, such as
spin-orbital momentum coupling.
The OMC 2023 also welcomes fundamental researches, advanced technologies and innovative applications enabled
by structured materials. The OMC 2023 event is organized
and sponsored by theSPIE in cooperation with several academic societies andassociations. OMC 2023 will include the latest research andnew technologies for optical radiation forces in the fieldof optical trappings and manipulations, as well as relatedtopics. In particular, the conference welcomes research on
structured optical fields, plasmon-resonant fields, metamaterials, and other topics related to optical manipulation.
This conference will also provide opportunities for scientific

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and professional networking, and scientific inspiration
to the attendees. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by
the program committee.
• structured optical fields, including beam shaping,polarization control, pulse shaping, frequency
extension, and ultrafast laser technologies• optical trapping and manipulation, including
optical tweezer, holographic optical manipulation,
plasmon trapping, multi-photon trapping, andatom trapping and cooling• fundamental researches and advanced
technologies enabled by structured materials,
such as metamaterials, metasurfaces, andphotonic crystals• advanced devices and instruments, including
spatial light modulator, adaptive optics, and nearfield optical devices• applications including structured material
processing, single molecule trapping,biophotonics, metamaterials, quantum
communications, and selective control of chemicalreaction• novel approaches, including novel interaction
between optical fields and materials on nanoscale,novel regimes of spin-orbit interaction, andquantum control of molecular dynamics.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Takashige Omatsu
Chiba Univ. (Japan)

Kishan Dholakia
The Univ. of Adelaide(Australia)
Univ. of St. Andrews(United Kingdom)

Síle Nic Chormaic
Okinawa Institute ofScience and Technology
Graduate Univ. (Japan)

Submission Deadline: 27 January 2023