Optical hopfions. (IMAGE)

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Optical hopfions.

Caption

Optical hopfions showing 50 equiphase lines to form ring tori with winding numbers: a, l₁ = 1, l₂ = 1. b, l₁ = 2, l₂ = 2. c, l₁ = 3, l₂ = 4. d, l₁ = 4, l₂ = 2.

Credit

by Chenhao Wan, Yijie Shen, Andy Chong, Qiwen Zhan

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