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Diffraction of uniformly polarized laser beams with vortex phase singularity is theoretically analyzed using the plane wave expansion. It is shown that for a high numerical aperture, an intense longitudinal electric field component is formed on the optical axis in this case. It is numerically demonstrated that an analogous effect is ensured for diffraction of a conventional Gaussian beam from asymmetric binary axicons. The field intensity on the optical axis can be varied either by rotating the optical element or by changing the direction of polarization of radiation.
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Original Russian Text © S.N. Khonina, D.A. Savelyev, 2013, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2013, Vol. 144, No. 4, pp. 718–726.
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Khonina, S.N., Savelyev, D.A. High-aperture binary axicons for the formation of the longitudinal electric field component on the optical axis for linear and circular polarizations of the illuminating beam. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 117, 623–630 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776113120157
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