A group photo of the Vectorial Optics & Photonics (VOP) research team standing in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford on a sunny day. Around a dozen early-career researchers are grouped together, some smiling, with one holding a bouquet of flowers. Historic stone architecture and blue sky form the background.
A scientific schematic illustrating how optical skyrmions—colourful patterns representing polarised light—are transformed as they pass through structured materials. The diagram shows input light fields, structured matter, and output fields, along with labelled examples of skyrmion number changes. Insets include circular colour maps, linear retarder arrays, and simplified components such as metasurfaces and liquid-crystal structures. Adapted from Nature Photonics.
Oxford breakthrough: engineers show that light can do stable, digital-style maths.
A leap toward faster, low-energy photonic computing. 💡⚡
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