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Flexible metafiber devices can generate optical skyrmions with designer topological textures and subwavelength features

Figure 1: Artistic image of a metafiber producing optical skyrmions with configurable topological textures. Credit: Yuan Meng, Tiantian He, Yijie Shen, Qirong Xiao Skyrmions are known for their complex spin configurations and have fascinated researchers as topological quasiparticles with great potential in data storage and information technology. Recently, optical skyrmions, the light-based counterpart of these quasiparticles, have emerged as a…