Babiker, Mohamed orcid.org/0000-0003-0659-5247, Koksal, Koray, Lembessis, V. E. et al. (1 more author) (2021) Chirality and helicity of linearly-polarised Laguerre-Gaussian beams of small beam waists. Optics Communications. 126907. ISSN 0030-4018
Abstract
The chirality and helicity of a linearly polarised Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam are examined. Such a type of light possesses a large longitudinal field amplitude when it is created with a sufficiently small beam waist and so gives rise to substantial magnitudes of chirality and helicity density distributions. In the simplest case of a doughnut beam of winding number ℓ=1 and another identical to it but for which ℓ=−1, we obtain different chirality and helicity distributions in the focal plane z=0. We also show that this chiral behaviour persists and the patterns evolve so that on planes at z<0 and z>0 the beam convergence phase contributes differently to the changes in the chirality and helicity distributions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2021 09:40 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 17:26 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2021.126907 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.optcom.2021.126907 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172906 |