Perspectives: Light control of magnetism and device development

N Fang, C Wu, Y Zhang, Z Li, Z Zhou - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accurately controlling magnetic and spin states presents a significant challenge in
spintronics, especially as demands for higher data storage density and increased …

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light: a tutorial

Q Zhan - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulses with sophisticated structures on demand is one
major goal of the everlasting pursuit of ultrafast information transmission and processing as …

Topological protection of optical skyrmions through complex media

AA Wang, Z Zhao, Y Ma, Y Cai, R Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical Skyrmions have many important properties that make them ideal units for high-
density data applications, including the ability to carry digital information through a discrete …

Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features

T He, Y Meng, L Wang, H Zhong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical skyrmions are an emerging class of structured light with sophisticated particle-like
topologies with great potential for revolutionizing modern informatics. However, the current …

Observation of resilient propagation and free-space skyrmions in toroidal electromagnetic pulses

R Wang, PY Bao, ZQ Hu, S Shi, BZ Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Toroidal electromagnetic pulses have been recently reported as nontransverse, space-time
nonseparable topological excitations of free space. However, their propagation dynamics …

Topological structures of energy flow: Poynting vector skyrmions

S Wang, Z Zhou, Z Zheng, J Sun, H Cao, S Song… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Topological properties of energy flow of light are fundamentally interesting and may
introduce novel physical phenomena associated with directional light scattering and optical …

Single-antenna super-resolution positioning with nonseparable toroidal pulses

R Wang, PY Bao, X Feng, J Wu, BZ Wang… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The fundamental principle of satellite/node-based positioning involves triangulating the
receiver's coordinates through the intersection of spatial distances. Advancements in hybrid …

Dynamical control of topology in polar skyrmions via twisted light

L Gao, S Prokhorenko, Y Nahas, L Bellaiche - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Twisted light carries a nonzero orbital angular momentum, that can be transferred from light
to electrons and particles ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Up to now, the interplay …

On-chip optical skyrmionic beam generators

W Lin, Y Ota, Y Arakawa, S Iwamoto - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical skyrmion beams, which encompass a two-dimensional topology in their spatial
structures, are promising candidates for ultra-dense optical communications and advanced …

Topologically controlled multiskyrmions in photonic gradient-index lenses

Y Shen, C He, Z Song, B Chen, H He, Y Ma… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Skyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles, originally studied in condensed-matter
systems and recently in photonics, with great potential in high-density information storage …