Synthetic chiral light for efficient control of chiral light matter interaction

I will present our work on synthetic chiral light, a new type of freely propagating optical fields that we have recently introduced [Ayuso et al, Nat. Phot. 13, 866 (2019)]. Synthetic chiral light enables the highest possible degree of control over chiral light-matter interaction. It allows us to selectively suppress the nonlinear response of a particular molecular enantiomer while enhancing it in its mirror twin.