Vorticity and the birth of optical vortices
Optics
2019-06-13 v1
Abstract
We exploit the vorticity, familiar from fluid mechanics and the theory of superfluids, as a tool to track the birth and subsequent development of optical vortices at a spiral phase plate.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.05230,
title = {Vorticity and the birth of optical vortices},
author = {Václav Potoček and Yu Wang and Stephen M. Barnett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05230},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
16 pages, 7 figures, see ancillary files section