Spatiotemporal pulse weaving scalar optical hopfions
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Published on: March 20, 2017
Chenhui Li1, Sicong Wang1, Xiangping Li2
1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Abstract:
Scalar optical hopfions weaved by nested equiphase lines in the shape of a toroidal vortex are theoretically designed and experimentally demonstrated. This category of hopfions manifesting as a spatiotemporally structured pulse propagating in space-time may enable encoding and transferring optical topological information in an additional (temporal) dimension.
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