Our research group delivered a talk at the highly prestigious Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2025 in Long Beach, CA, which took place from May 4-9, 2025. This honor, reserved for exceptional, highlights our group's work at the forefront of modern optics.
The presentation demonstrated a groundbreaking method for transduction, where properties of light are mapped onto the quantum properties of matter. While it is common to transfer energy or momentum, our work shows the mapping of a subtle property—the polarity of an optical skyrmion—onto the quantum phase texture of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond.
This research effectively bridges two distinct fields: structured light and quantum impurities. By proving it's possible to use structured light to control the delicate quantum phase of a quantum system, our group has opened a new avenue for developing advanced quantum technologies. While scaling up remains a challenge, this work provides a new, practical path for controlling a wide range of quantum systems.