PR'22 — Photorefractive Photonics and Beyond 2022

Photorefractive Photonics and Beyond 2022 (PR'22) is the 18th international conference of a series of biennial meetings, started almost 35 years ago in Los Angeles (USA). This year the conference will take place for the first time in Italy, hosted by the University of Padova. PR'22 will be held from 5th to 9th September 2022, at the Park Hotel Villa Fiorita close to Treviso, a historic city in the north-east of Italy. Started as an international forum devoted to the study of photorefractivity and photorefractive materials, in recent editions the focus of the conference has been broadened to include other optical effects, materials and applications which somehow relate to this kind of phenomena. Following this momentum, in this edition we aim to stimulate interactions between a wide range of research areas which, although seemingly distant, share several aspects either on the description of fundamental physics, on the basic phenomena besides light – matter interaction or on possible fabrication methods and applications, in order to foster cross-fertilization and stimulate new ways to exploit the light-driven phenomena which at a fundamental level trigger photorefractivity.

Topics: Nonlinear light-matter interaction and applications, Photorefractive and hybrid materials, Signal processing and photonics, Materials micro- and nano-engineering, Holography, Optical processing and imaging, Fundamentals and novel applications of charge and exciton generation and transport, Optical analogues of complex phenomena