- Article
Spiral Caustics of Vortex Beams
- Viktor A. Soifer,
- Sergey I. Kharitonov,
- Svetlana N. Khonina,
- Yurii S. Strelkov and
- Alexey P. Porfirev
We discuss the nonparaxial focusing of laser light into a three-dimensional (3D) spiral distribution. For calculating the tangential and normal components of the electromagnetic field on a preset curved surface we propose an asymptotic method, using...

