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Influence of optical activity of gyroanisotropic optical crystals on the Bessel beams
Y.A. Egorov1, A.I. Aliev1,2, E.D. Umerov1,2, V.V. Skakun1,2, N.V. Shostka1, A.F. Rubass1

1Crimean Federal V.I. Vernadsky University, Institute of Physics and Technology, 295007, Russia, Republic of Crimea, Simferopol, Academician Vernadsky Avenue 4;
2Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, 295015, Russia, Republic of Crimea, Simferopol, Uchebny Lane 8

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DOI: 10.18287/COJ1688

Article ID: 1688

Language: English

Abstract:
Using the example of a Bessel beam, it is shown that such a beam with initial circular polarization, propagating through an optically active medium devoid of linear birefringence, generates an optical vortex in the orthogonally polarized component. It is shown that a medium with true optical activity allows mutual transformation of beams with radial and azimuthal polarization distributions. It is also shown that a sufficiently weak perturbation of an optical medium with true optical activity and linear birefringence leads to the destruction of an isotropic point. In the vicinity of this point, the optical activity is suppressed by linear birefringence, so that a medium with a combined type of anisotropy reacts as a medium with truly linear birefringence. The structure of the fields of eigenmodes of Bessel beams in a birefringent uniaxial crystal with optical activity is similar to the structure of the modes of a medium with true optical activity. It is expected that the results of this study will expand the understanding of physical processes in the developing field of polarization and phase profilometry of materials.

Keywords:
singular beams; gyrotropic crystals; topological charge.

Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 24-12-20013)

Citation:
Egorov YA, Aliev AI, Umerov ED, Skakun VV, Shostka NV, Rubass AF. Influence of optical activity of gyroanisotropic optical crystals on the Bessel beams. Computer Optics 2026; 50(1): 1688. DOI: 10.18287/COJ1688.

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