Non-Diffractive 3D Polarisation Features of Optical Vortex Beams
Optics
2022-11-10 v2
Abstract
Vector optical vortices exhibit complex polarisation patterns due to the interplay between spin and orbital angular momenta. Here we demonstrate, both analytically and with simulations, that certain polarisation features of optical vortex beams maintain constant transverse spatial dimensions independently of beam divergence due to diffraction. These polarisation features appear in the vicinity of the phase singularity and are associated with the presence of longitudinal electric fields. The predicted effect may prove important in metrology and high resolution imaging applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.08833,
title = {Non-Diffractive 3D Polarisation Features of Optical Vortex Beams},
author = {Andrei Afanasev and Jack J. Kingsley-Smith and Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño and Anatoly V. Zayats},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.08833},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figures; revised text and figures