Paraxial propagation of cosh-Airy vortex beams in chiral medium*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61601355 and 61571355), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M602770), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China (Grant Nos. 2018JM6018 and 2019JQ-405), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China.

Yang Xiao-Jin1, Wu Zhen-Sen1, †, Qu Tan2
       

Transverse Poynting vector of the LCPV beams propagating in the chiral medium at the positions: z = 1zr [(a1)–(c1)], 10zr [(a2)–(c2)], 20zr [(a3)–(c3)], 30zr [(a4)–(c4)], for a′ = 0 [(a1)–(a4)], a′ = 0.05 [(b1)–(b4)], a′ = 0.08 [(c1)–(c4)], and γ = 0.16/k.