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Scalar optical hopfions

Wan, Chenhao, Shen, Yijie, Chong, Andy, Zhan, Qiwen·2022·eLight
DOI 10.1186/s43593-022-00030-2
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Hopfions are three-dimensional (3D) topological states discovered in field theory, magnetics, and hydrodynamics that resemble particle-like objects in physical space. Hopfions inherit the topological features of the Hopf fibration, a homotopic mapping from unit sphere in 4D space to unit sphere in 3D space. Here we design and demonstrate dynamic scalar optical hopfions in the shape of a toroidal vortex and expressed as an approximate solution to Maxwell’s equations. Equiphase lines correspond to disjoint and interlinked loops forming complete ring tori in 3D space. The Hopf invariant, product of two winding numbers, is determined by the topological charge of the poloidal spatiotemporal vortices and toroidal spatial vortices in toroidal coordinates. Optical hopfions provide a photonic testbed for studying topological states and may be utilized as high-dimensional information carriers.

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Authors
Wan, C., Shen, Y., Chong, A., & Zhan, Q.
Venue
eLight
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-11-01
Volume
2
Issue
1
ISSN
2662-8643
DOI
10.1186/s43593-022-00030-2
Cited by
78
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2
Language
en
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  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (92050202, 61875245)
  • Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (19060502500)
  • Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau (2020010601012169)

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