Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, X Yuan, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics and magnetic materials, but only …

Multiple degrees‐of‐freedom programmable soft‐matter‐photonics: Configuration, manipulation, and advanced applications

Y Zhang, ZG Zheng, Q Li - Responsive Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For centuries, humans have never stopped exploring the nature of light and manipulating it,
since light carries multiple information through its intrinsic wave‐particle dualism, including …

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 …

Multidimensional optical tweezers synthetized by rigid-body emulated structured light

L Zhu, Y Tai, H Li, H Hu, X Li, Y Cai, Y Shen - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Structured light with more extended degrees of freedom (DoFs) and in higher dimensions is
increasingly gaining traction and leading to breakthroughs such as super-resolution …

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 …

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 …

Intra‐cavity laser manipulation of high‐dimensional non‐separable states

L Hai, Z Zhang, S Liu, L Li, Z Zhou… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐separable states of structured light have the analogous mathematical forms with
quantum entanglement, which offer an effective way to simulate quantum process. However …

Inhomogeneous enantiomeric solution concentration measurement harnessing vectorial structured light

XB Hu, CX Liu, YC Zhu, RP Chen, B Zhao, FM Wu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Complex vector light fields, characterized by their nonuniform transverse polarization
distribution, offer a versatile solution for various applications. This study presents an …

Pulsed polarized vortex beam enabled by metafiber lasers

C Zhang, L Zhang, H Zhang, B Fu, J Wang, M Qiu - PhotoniX, 2024 - Springer
Pulsed polarized vortex beams, a special form of structured light, are generated by tailoring
the light beam spatiotemporally and witness the growing application demands in nonlinear …