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Defects encode high-dimensional topological information
Yunqi Zhang, Fengjun Li, Runchen Zhang +13
In polarization fields, Stokes skyrmions are continuous vectorial textures that encode integer-valued topological invariants across real space, enabling robust optical information…
Drop-on-demand printed negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal droplets for adaptive complex beam manipulation and assessment
Jinge Guo, Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang +12
Adaptive manipulation of vectorial optical fields are important for optical metrology, imaging, and structured light related applications, yet existing approaches often rely on bul…
Topologically robust programmable logic arrays using light and matter skyrmions
Ruofu Liu, An Aloysius Wang, Yunqi Zhang +9
Photonic computing offers a low-power, high-bandwidth paradigm for information processing; however, the analogue nature of conventional architectures means that intrinsic noise and…
Full vectorial field sensing using liquid crystal droplet arrays
Xuke Qiu, Jinge Guo, Jiahe Cui +8
Determining the amplitude, phase, and polarization profile of light is essential for both fundamental scientific discovery and applications spanning optical metrology, microscopy,…
Skyrmions based on optical anisotropy for topological encoding
Yunqi Zhang, An Aloysius Wang, Runchen Zhang +6
The observation of skyrmions across diverse physical domains suggests that they are universal features of S-valued fields, reflecting the ubiquity of topology in the study of…
Inkjet Printed Liquid Crystal Droplet for Complex Beam Manipulation
Mengmeng Li, Chao He, Steve J. Elston +6
The inkjet-fabricated liquid crystal (LC) droplet device not only capitalizes on the intrinsic birefringence properties of liquid crystals but also leverages the hemispherical shap…
Complex structured light generation using printed liquid crystal droplets
Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang, Yifei Ma +10
Inkjet-printed liquid crystal (LC) droplets exhibit an intricate spatially-varying birefringence due to their complex internal director configuration. While such anisotropy is ofte…
Physically Plausible Vectorial Metrics for Polarization Information Analysis
Runchen Zhang, Xuke Qiu, Yifei Ma +7
The Mueller Matrix Polar Decomposition method decomposes a Mueller matrix into a diattenuator, a retarder, and a depolarizer. Among these elements, the retarder, which plays a key…
Generalized Skyrmions
An Aloysius Wang, Zimo Zhao, Yifei Ma +10
Skyrmions are important topologically non-trivial fields characteristic of models spanning scales from the microscopic to the cosmological. However, the Skyrmion number can only be…
Perturbation-resilient integer arithmetic using optical skyrmions
An Aloysius Wang, Yifei Ma, Yunqi Zhang +5
The decline of Moore's law coupled with the rise of artificial intelligence has recently motivated research into photonic computing as a high-bandwidth, low-power strategy to accel…
Intensity adaptive optics
Zimo Zhao, Yifei Ma, Zipei Song +12
Adaptive optics (AO) is a powerful tool employed across various research fields, from aerospace to microscopy. Traditionally, AO has focused on correcting optical phase aberrations…
Topological Protection of Optical Skyrmions through Complex Media
An Aloysius Wang, Zimo Zhao, Yifei Ma +14
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 discret…
Vectorial adaptive optics for advanced imaging systems
Yifei Ma, Zimo Zhao, Jiahe Cui +2
Vectorial adaptive optics (V-AO) is a cutting-edge technique extending conventional AO into the vectorial domain encompassing both polarization and phase feedback correction for op…