Propagation of a terahertz Bessel vortex beam through a homogeneous magnetized plasma slab

Abstract

This paper provides an analytic method to study propagation characteristics of a linearly polarized Bessel vortex beam through a homogeneous magnetized plasma slab. The incident Bessel vortex beam, as well as the reflected, transmitted and internal fields are expanded in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions (CVWFs). The effects of plasma thickness, electron density and magnetic induction strength on the contour profiles of the reflected and transmitted beams and orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectra are analyzed and discussed in detail. In particular, the magnetic induction strength has a significant impact on the polarization of the transmitted beam, but not on OAM state distribution. The channel capacity of THz OAM multiplexing decreases with an increase of plasma thickness and electron density.