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Optical skyrmions in Bessel profile
JOSA A- received 02/20/2024; accepted 04/17/2024; posted 04/18/2024; Doc. ID 522001
- Abstract: Optical skyrmions formed in terms of polarization are topological quasi-particles and have garnered much interest in the optical community owing to their unique inhomogeneous polarization structure and simplicity in their experimental realization. These structures belong to the Poincaré beams satisfying the stable topology. We theoretically investigated the non-diffracting and self-healing Poincaré beams based on the superposition of two orthogonal Bessel modes by mode matching technique. These Poincaré beams are topologically protected, and we suggest them as optical skyrmions. These optical skyrmions are quasi-skyrmions and their range of propagation depends on the range of superposed Bessel modes. The polarization structure of these optical skyrmions has no change upon the propagation. A necessary experimental configuration is suggested to realize variable order skyrmions in Bessel modes experimentally. This work can provide a new direction for the generation of skyrmions with completely new textures and features with reference to existing skyrmions originating from Laguerre-Gaussian modes.