Roadmap on structured light

Structured light refers to the generation and application of custom light fields. As the tools and technology to create and detect structured light have evolved, steadily the applications have begun to emerge. This roadmap touches on the key fields within structured light from the perspective of experts in those areas, providing insight into the current state and the challenges their respective fields face. Collectively the roadmap outlines the venerable nature of structured light research and the exciting prospects for the future that are yet to be realized

Holographic optical tweezers induced hierarchical supramolecular organization

Nanocontainers, i.e. particles at the micro and nano scale that can host guest molecules, are of highest interest for various applications especially in nanoscience and biomedicine. Popular examples are the delivery of phar-maceuticals or active agents to specific cell, nerve or tissue domains or the organization of larger scaffolds of artificial matter by arrangements of nancontainers [1]. While in some applications the precise control of the position of individual nanocontainers is negligible, it becomes most important for hierarchical supramolecular organisation. Here, microporous nanocontainers are loaded with guest molecules that are not covalently bound, but occupy cavities of highest geometrical order, and this order is directly transferred to the molecules. The order can be extended from the molecular to the microscopic scale by arranging and organizing the nanocontainers themselves - usually by self-assembly or by chemical means

Optical control and dynamic patterning of zeolites

Zeolite crystals have a wide use as model systems for artificial light harvesting systems, as nano-containers for supramolecular organization or as building blocks for 1D and 2D assemblies of several crystals. In particular the assembly of zeolite L crystals with the aim to bridge the gap between the nano- and the macroscopic world has been a focus of research during the last years. However, almost all available approaches to order, assemble and pattern Zeolite L are restricted to large amounts of crystals. Although these approaches have proven to be powerful for many applications, but they have only limited control over positioning or orientation of single crystals and are lacking if patterns or structures are required which are composed of a few or up to a few hundred individual crystals. We demonstrate here that holographic optical tweezers are a powerful and versatile instrument to control zeolite L on the single crystal level. It is shown that full three-dimensional positioning, including rotational control, of any zeolite L crystal can be achieved. Finally, we demonstrate fully reversible, dynamic patterning of a multitude of individually controlled zeolite L crystals