12 papers
High-speed electrically driven liquid-crystal compact optical skyrmion encoder
Yu-Ping Tang, Zhenyu Guo, Ze-Yu Wang +8
Optical skyrmions possess topological polarization textures that can maintain topological robustness under external perturbations, making them promising carriers for disturbance-re…
Topology-guided vortices in a polariton condensate
Andrea Zacheo, Marco Marangi, Nilo Mata-Cervera +3
A major challenge in polariton fluids is achieving deterministic control over the spin texture of the macroscopic condensate wavefunction, which dictates the nucleation and dynamic…
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…
Unfolding unstable skyrmionic polarization textures
Nilo Mata-Cervera, Zhenyu Guo, Yijie Shen
Polarization of light can form skyrmionic textures, akin to nonlinear solitons in condensed matter, yet their disparate physical context has motivated extensive debate regarding th…
High-performance Sources of Multidimensionally Engineered Quantum Light Based on Monolithic Microcavity-metalens Interfaces
Jiantao Ma, Dong Liu, Shunfa Liu +15
The ultimate non-classic light sources for modern photonic quantum technology require on-demand generation of indistinguishable quantum light with high brightness and flexible engi…
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…