5 papers
Spatiotemporally Localized Optical Links and Knots
Yaning Zhou, Nianjia Zhang, Ao Zhou +7
Optical links and knots have attracted growing attention owing to their exotic topologic features and promising applications in next-generation information transfer and storage. Ho…
Propagation Dynamics of Photonic Toroidal Vortices Mediated by Orbital Angular Momenta
Xin Liu, Nianjia Zhang, Qian Cao +4
The dynamics of vortex rings in fluids have long captivated researchers due to the intriguing complexity of their behavior, despite the apparent simplicity of their structure. In o…
Full space-time abrupt autofocusing spherical Airy wavepacket
Qian Cao, Nianjia Zhang, Chenghao Li +2
The ability to precisely focus optical beams is crucial for numerous applications, yet conventional Gaussian beams exhibit slow intensity transitions near the focal point, limiting…
Spatiotemporal Photonic Emulator of Potential-free Schrödinger Equation
Qian Cao, Nianjia Zhang, Andy Chong +1
Photonic quantum emulator utilizes photons to emulate the quantum physical behavior of a complex quantum system. Recent study in spatiotemporal optics has enriched the toolbox for…
Construction of Optical Spatiotemporal Skyrmions
Houan Teng, Xin Liu, Nianjia Zhang +6
The creation and manipulation of photonic skyrmions provide a novel degree of freedom for light-matter interactions, optical communication and nanometrology. Since the localized vo…