Abstract

Investigation of the influence of parameters of silver, aluminum, gold, and chromium spiral zone plates on the longitudinal component of Umov-Pointing vector in produced optical vortices by using the frequency-dependent finite-difference time-domain method is presented. It is shown that the aluminum spiral zone plate with a relief height of 50 nm gives an optical vortex with the smallest longitudinal component of Umov-Pointing vector on the optical axis. The gold spiral zone plate is the least effective for the formation of vortex beams with a reverse energy flow.

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