Measures of helicity and chirality of optical vortex beams

Analytical forms of the optical helicity and optical chirality of monochromatic Laguerre-Gaussian optical vortex beams are derived up to second order in the paraxial parameter kw(0)

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The analytical forms of optical helicity and optical chirality of monochromatic Laguerre-Gaussian optical vortex beams are derived up to second order using the paraxial parameter kw(0).