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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