Generation of double-charged optical vortices on the basis of electrooptic Kerr effect

Abstract

We show that double-charged optical vortices can be generated with the help of Kerr electrooptic effect in either single crystals or isotropic media, including gaseous and liquid ones. We analyze possibilities for the vortex generation via the Kerr effect for different point group of symmetry and formulate the appropriate conditions. We prove that the crystals, textures and the isotropic media most suitable for the generation of double-charged optical vortices should belong to the symmetry groups 622, 6mm, 6/mmm, 6, 6/m, inf/m, inf, inf 2, inf mm, inf/mmm, inf/inf/mmm, and inf/inf2.

21 pages, 6 figures

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