Structured matter creates toroidal structured light

Andrew Forbes

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00927-0

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- Structured matter creates toroidal structured light
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 9, Pages: 1950-1951(2022)
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  1.School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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  Andrew Forbes (andrew.forbes@wits.ac.za)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00927-0
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Forbes, A. Structured matter creates toroidal structured light. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1950-1951 (2022).
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Forbes, A. Structured matter creates toroidal structured light. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1950-1951 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00927-0.

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Nano-structured metasurfaces have to be tailored from artificial atoms that act as toroidal emitters, giving rise to a new form of light long predicted: "flying doughnuts" as propagating spatial-temporal electromagnetic toroidal pulses in both the visible and THz regimes.

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