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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 12, 2042 (2023)

Physical conversion and superposition of optical skyrmion topologies

Houan Teng¹, Jinzhan Zhong^1,2, Jian Chen^1,2, Xinrui Lei^1,2, and Qiwen Zhan^1,2,*

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¹School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

²Zhangjiang Laboratory, Shanghai 201204, China

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