Isaac M. Nape

Deep diffractive optical neural networks for detecting skyrmionic topologies of light and their live training

Optical skyrmions are topological forms of structured light offering an unbounded encoding alphabet robust to perturbations. However, their practical use is limited by the absence of a topological detector, since states distinguished by their topological invariant, N, are not nec...

Remote engineering of particle-like topologies to visualise entanglement dynamics

Abstract Skyrmions are a particle-like topology with a quantized skyrmion number, realized across condensed matter and photonic platforms alike. In quantum photonics, they constitute an emerging resource, promising robust quantum information encoding, so far realized as single-ph...