Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Creation of acoustic vortex knots

  • Hongkuan Zhang,
  • Weixuan Zhang,
  • Yunhong Liao,
  • Xiaoming Zhou,
  • Junfei Li,
  • Gengkai Hu,
  • Xiangdong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17744-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Although knots in complex optical fields have been realized experimentally, the realization of acoustic vortex knots is still problematic. Here, the authors have demonstrated the creation of acoustic vortex knots by embedding the knot function into a propagating acoustic field using a metasurface hologram.