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A light field's skyrmion number survives 270 metres of Johannesburg turbulence
At Wits, a beam whose polarization structure turbulence had rendered unrecognizable still delivered its skyrmion number unchanged. That is the basis for arguing free-space links should be made robust by encoding rather than by correction.
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