most citedDiffraction-free natural optical skyrmions and their subwavelength confinement around vortices

2 citations · 2 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

6 papers

physics.optics2026

Spontaneous optical skyrmion generation by frequency doubling in underdense plasmas

Marcos G. Barriopedro, Eduardo Oliva, Miguel A. Porras

Optical skyrmions have been widely explored in recent years. Among them, Stokes skyrmions require sophisticated wave engineering or photonic devices for their generation. We show t…

physics.optics2026

Non-diffracting meronic spin defects of light

Nilo Mata-Cervera, Miguel A. Porras, Yijie Shen

Optical vortices are singularity lines where the light field intensity vanishes and its phase is undefined. These threads of darkness are adorned by Gauss's law as lines of pure lo…

physics.optics2026

Gouy phase-assisted Zeno effect for protecting light structure in random media

Nilo Mata-Cervera, Anton N. Vetlugin, Cesare Soci +2

Identifying physical mechanisms that protect the information carried by various forms of structured light is one of the cornerstones of today's classical and quantum communications…

physics.optics20252 cited

Diffraction-free natural optical skyrmions and their subwavelength confinement around vortices

Nilo Mata-Cervera, Deepak K. Sharma, Ramon Paniagua-Dominguez +2

Diffraction causes waves to spread out as they propagate freely. The tighter the lateral confinement, the faster the spreading. Past research on how to suppress diffraction has bee…

physics.optics2025

Optical Skyrmions of Vortex Darkness

Nilo Mata-Cervera, Deepak K. Sharma, Yijie Shen +2

We disclose the existence of a type of optical skyrmion, Gauss-Stokes (GS) skyrmions, that is naturally present in an optical vortex around its phase singularity. Contrary to previ…

physics.optics2025

Observation of helical pulses

Ren Wang, Shuai Shi, Zeyi Zhang +4

Ultrafast spatiotemporal vortex pulses constitute a category within spatiotemporal topological waves. Nevertheless, the experimental realization of helical pulses single or few cyc…