Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features
Optical skyrmions are an emerging class of structured light with sophisticated particle-like topologies with great potential for revolutionizing modern informatics. However, the current generation of optical skyrmions involves complex or bulky systems, hindering the development of practical applicat...
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| author | He, Tiantian Meng, Yuan Wang, Lele Zhong, Hongkun Mata-Cervera, Nilo Li, Dan Yan, Ping Liu, Qiang Shen, Yijie Xiao, Qirong |
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| description | Optical skyrmions are an emerging class of structured light with sophisticated particle-like topologies with great potential for revolutionizing modern informatics. However, the current generation of optical skyrmions involves complex or bulky systems, hindering the development of practical applications. Here, exploiting the emergent "lab-on-fiber" technology, we demonstrate the design of a metafiber-integrated photonic skyrmion generator. We not only successfully generate high-quality optical skyrmions from metafibers, but also verify their remarkable properties, such as topology switchability and topology stability with subwavelength polarization features beyond the diffraction limits. Our flexible fiber-integrated optical skyrmions platform paves the avenue for future applications of topologically-enhanced remote super-resolution microscopy and robust information transfer. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1820562025-01-06T15:35:27Z Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features He, Tiantian Meng, Yuan Wang, Lele Zhong, Hongkun Mata-Cervera, Nilo Li, Dan Yan, Ping Liu, Qiang Shen, Yijie Xiao, Qirong School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies (CDPT) The Photonics Institute Engineering Skyrmions Photonics Optical skyrmions are an emerging class of structured light with sophisticated particle-like topologies with great potential for revolutionizing modern informatics. However, the current generation of optical skyrmions involves complex or bulky systems, hindering the development of practical applications. Here, exploiting the emergent "lab-on-fiber" technology, we demonstrate the design of a metafiber-integrated photonic skyrmion generator. We not only successfully generate high-quality optical skyrmions from metafibers, but also verify their remarkable properties, such as topology switchability and topology stability with subwavelength polarization features beyond the diffraction limits. Our flexible fiber-integrated optical skyrmions platform paves the avenue for future applications of topologically-enhanced remote super-resolution microscopy and robust information transfer. Ministry of Education (MOE) Nanyang Technological University Published version Q.X. acknowledges the funding through National Natural Science Foundation of China (62122040, 62075113). Y.S. acknowledges the support of Nanyang Technological University Start Up Grant, Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) AcRF Tier 1 grant (RG157/23), MoE AcRF Tier 1 Thematic grant (RT11/23), and Imperial-Nanyang Technological University Collaboration Fund (INCF-2024-007). 2025-01-06T08:38:40Z 2025-01-06T08:38:40Z 2024 Journal Article He, T., Meng, Y., Wang, L., Zhong, H., Mata-Cervera, N., Li, D., Yan, P., Liu, Q., Shen, Y. & Xiao, Q. (2024). Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features. Nature Communications, 15(1), 10141-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54207-z 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182056 10.1038/s41467-024-54207-z 39578430 2-s2.0-85209757800 1 15 10141 en RG157/23 RT11/23 INCF-2024-007 NTU SUG Nature Communications © 2024 The Author(s). Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Engineering Skyrmions Photonics He, Tiantian Meng, Yuan Wang, Lele Zhong, Hongkun Mata-Cervera, Nilo Li, Dan Yan, Ping Liu, Qiang Shen, Yijie Xiao, Qirong Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| title | Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| title_full | Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| title_fullStr | Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| title_short | Optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| title_sort | optical skyrmions from metafibers with subwavelength features |
| topic | Engineering Skyrmions Photonics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182056 |
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