Vorticity and the birth of optical vortices

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.

16 pages, 7 figures, see ancillary files section

References in corpus (2)

• Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in inhomogeneous anisotropic media
• Quantum Formulation of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum