Supertoroidal Skyrmionic Light Pulses

Autor: Nikolay I. Zheludev, Apostolos Zdagkas, Yijie Shen, Yaonan Hou, Nikitas Papasimakis
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC).
DOI: 10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec52157.2021.9541698
Popis: We report on a family of toroidal pulses, termed supertoroidal light pulses (STLPS), which exhibit matryoshka-like electromagnetic field configurations and topological structure analogous to skyrmion quasiparticles in condensed matter that to date have not been observed in electromagnetic pulses. STLPs are a generalization of the toroidal light pulses (TLPs) investigated by Hellwarth and Nouchi in 1996 and come from a more general class of pulses obtained as superpositions of "electromagnetic directed-energy pulse trains" (EDEPTs) by Ziolkowski in 1989.
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