Generation of flying electromagnetic doughnuts via spatiotemporal conversion of transverse electromagnetic pulses

We introduce a new class of metamaterials that allow simultaneous spatial and temporal control of electromagnetic waveforms and present for the first time the generation of flying doughnuts, single-cycle pulses of toroidal topology.

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