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The propagation of optical vortices in coiled anisotropic elliptical fibers is studied. The structure of high-order modes and their propagation constants are determined. The possibility of the generation of TE and TM modes from optical vortices with a unit topological charge in weakly anisotropic coiled fibers is demonstrated. The topological effects that arise upon the propagation of radiation along strongly anisotropic elliptical coiled fibers are investigated. It is established that topological effects are suppressed by anisotropy in the case of the propagation of l = 1 modes; the effects are manifested in these fibers in the form of the rotation of the field intensity distribution by a solid angle spanned by the light trajectory only for certain combinations of l > 1 modes.
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Original Russian Text © K.N. Alekseyev, B.P. Lapin, M.A. Yavorsky, 2011, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2011, Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 493–500.
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Alekseyev, K.N., Lapin, B.P. & Yavorsky, M.A. Optical vortices and topological effects in coiled fibers with combined anisotropy. Opt. Spectrosc. 110, 456–463 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X10061013
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