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 …

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 …

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 …

Symmetry-breaking enabled topological phase transitions in spin-orbit optics

J Cheng, Z Zhang, W Mei, Y Cao, X Ling, Y Chen - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The topological phase transitions (TPT) of light refers to a topological evolution from one
type of spin-orbit interaction to another, which has been recently found in beam scattering at …

[HTML][HTML] Direct space–time manipulation mechanism for spatio-temporal coupling of ultrafast light field

Q Lin, F Feng, Y Cai, X Lu, X Zeng, C Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Traditionally, manipulation of spatiotemporal coupling (STC) of the ultrafast light fields can
be actualized in the space-spectrum domain with some 4-f pulse shapers, which suffers …

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 …

Chiral composite metamaterials with gradient phase index for vortex electromagnetic− wave generation and attenuation

L Huang, R Zhao, L Ji, J Ruan - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024 - Elsevier
The conversion of incoming electromagnetic-waves into vortex waves by electromagnetic-
wave absorption materials (EAMs) is expected to improve the absorption properties, but …

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 …

Correlating Space, Wavelength, and Polarization of Light: Spatiospectral Vector Beams

L Kopf, R Barros, R Fickler - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Increasing the complexity of a light field through the advanced manipulation of its degrees of
freedom (DoFs) provides new opportunities for fundamental studies and technologies …