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Topologically Structured Light and Matter 1

Session Organizers

Yijie Shen
Nanyang Technological University
Jian Chen
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Session Chairs

Yijie Shen
Nanyang Technological University
Jian Chen
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Session Information

Submitted Articles

Note: The following submitted articles are not guaranteed to be scheduled in the final program at this stage. The final presentation type and arranged session will be decided by Technical Program Committee.
Note: +: Presenting Author, *: Corresponding Author
Presenting Author Talk Time Paper Title | Authors | Abstract Session Date / Room
13:30

Keynote
Topology with Spatiotemporally Sculptured Light
+*Qiwen Zhan (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
14:00

Invited
Towards Nanoscale Coherence and Polarization of Light and Their Applications
+*Lipeng Wan (Nanchang University), Weimin Deng (Nanchang University), Daomu Zhao (Zhejiang University), Tianbao Yu (Nanchang University)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
14:20

Invited
Singular Focal Intensity and Topological Polarization Texture in Scaler Vortex Beams
+*Deepak K. Sharma (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)), Nilo Mata-Cervera (Nanyang Technological University), Rasna Maruthiyodan Veetil (A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)), Tobias W. W. Mass (A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)), Yijie Shen (Nanyang Technological University), Miguel Angel Porras (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Ramon Paniagua-Dominguez (A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research))
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
14:40

Invited
A Reconfigurable Arbitrary Retarder Array as Complex Structured Matter
+*Chao He (University of Oxford)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
15:00

Invited
Engineering Angular Momentum and Topology of Tightly Focused Optical Field
+*Jian Chen (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
15:20

Structured Wavefront Multiplexing for Next-generation Backhaul over Long-distance
+*Yufei Zhao (Nanyang Technological University), Afkar Mohamed Ismail (Nanyang Technological University), Yirui Luo (Nanyang Technological University), Zekai Wang (Nanyang Technological University), Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
15:40Coffee Break
16:00

Invited
Topological Skyrmions in Noisy Quantum Maps
+*Robert De Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand), Bo-Qiang Lu (Huzhou University), Pedro Ornelas (University of the Witwatersrand), Isaac Nape (University of the Witwatersrand), Andrew Forbes (University of the Witwatersrand)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
16:20

Invited
Optical Sculpting and Storing of Topologically Structured Light in Cold Atoms
+*Jinwen Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Xin Yang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Yun Chen (Huzhou University), Zhujun Ye (Hiroshima University), Chengyuan Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Sonja Franke-Arnold (University of Glasgow), Hong Gao (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
16:40

Seeing through Chaos: Topological Light in Random Media
+*Tatjana Kleine (University of the Witwatersrand), Cade Peters (University of the Witwatersrand), Kelsey Everts (University of the Witwatersrand), Pedro Ornelas (University of the Witwatersrand), Andrew Forbes (University of the Witwatersrand)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
16:55

Higher-order Space-time Wave Packets and Their Gouy-phase Dynamics
+Wangke Yu (Nanyang Technological University), *Yijie Shen (Nanyang Technological University)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
17:10

Three-dimensional Topological Quasiparticles of Light
+*Haiwen Wang (ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences), Shanhui Fan (Stanford University)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
17:25

Invited
Periodic Hopfion Topologies in Spatiotemporally Structured Light Beams
+*Wenbo Lin (Institute of Science Tokyo), Nilo Mata-Cervera (Nanyang Technological University), Yasutomo Ota (Keio University), Yijie Shen (Nanyang Technological University), Satoshi Iwamoto (The University of Tokyo)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
17:45

Invited
Topology of SU(N) Structured Light
+*Shinichi Saito (Hitachi, Ltd.)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
18:05

A Multiplexed Vector Beam Converter for Structured Polarization Manipulation
+Runchen Zhang (University of Oxford), Tade Marozsak (University of Oxford), An Aloysius Wang (University of Oxford), Tingxian Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Haochuan Geng (University of Oxford), Ben Dai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), *Chao He (University of Oxford)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
18:20

Invited
Advanced Near-field Optical Microscopy for the Discovery of Optical Spin Skyrmions and Beyond
+*Peng Shi (Shenzhen University)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
18:40

Invited
Observing Topology in Surface Plasmon Polariton Fields
+*Timothy J. Davis (University of Stuttgart), Harald W. Giessen (University of Stuttgart), Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A
19:00

Exploring Topological Properties in Meronic Beams under Complex Perturbations
+Zimo Zhao (University of Oxford), An Aloysius Wang (University of Oxford), Yunqi Zhang (University of Oxford), Yifei Ma (University of Oxford), *Chao He (University of Oxford)
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2P1
2025-11-07
PM
Room: 1 - 101A

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