A Coulomb-like Potential for Optical Vortices

structured light
Frontiers in Optics 2015, FTh1C.3 (2015)
Authors

Anderson M. Amaral

Edilson L. Falcão-Filho

Cid B. de Araújo

Published

January 1, 2015

Doi

10.1364/FIO.2015.FTh1C.3

Anderson M. Amaral, Edilson L. Falcão-Filho, and Cid B. de Araújo

DOI: 10.1364/FIO.2015.FTh1C.3

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Abstract

Optical Vortices (OV) can be characterized by their Topological Charge (TC). It is shown in this work that a distribution of TC over the beam transverse plane gives rise to a Coulomb-like potential for OV. Pure multipoles and 2D distributions of TC are analyzed in theory and experiments.