Recovering topological information of light by topological learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06542v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:30:11 GMT
• Title: Recovering topological information of light by topological learning
• Abstract summary: We propose and demonstrate a topology-enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) approach to recover and classify lost topological information.<n>By aligning the topological classification of information with the topology of light, our TOPO$2$ protocol achieves highly efficient recognition of the topological states of light, even from speckle.<n>This work synergises topological photonics and topological AI for unravelling hidden topological signatures in light, opening a pathway towards robust communications even in extreme disordered environments.
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• Abstract: The evolution of modern-day communication networks towards optical solutions with enhanced capacity and robustness is driving interest in topological light waves, exploiting their stability against perturbations through a topological invariant, e.g., the skyrmion number. However, detecting the underlying topology remains a computationally intense process even under ideal conditions, becoming intractable after passing through strongly disordered channels, where the degradation into unrecognisable speckle appears to destroy the topology. Here, we propose and demonstrate a topology-enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) approach to recover and classify such apparently lost topological information by computationally leveraging topological invariants in the data across many length scales. By aligning the topological classification of information with the topology of light, our topology-enhanced learning protocol, termed TOPO$^{2}$, achieves highly efficient recognition of the topological states of light, even from speckle, without the need for any prior learning. Our approach outperforms benchmark tests against standard computational algorithms and has the benefit of requiring just a single intensity pattern as the input, facilitating single-shot operation. To demonstrate this, we leverage the skyrmion number as a robust data carrier of images through a disordered channel, using TOPO$^{2}$ to accurately reconstruct the transmitted images. This work synergises topological photonics and topological AI for unravelling hidden topological signatures in light, opening a pathway towards robust communications even in extreme disordered environments.

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