Abstract
Optical Vortices (OV) can be characterized by their Topological Charge (TC). It is shown in this work that a distribution of TC over the beam transverse plane gives rise to a Coulomb-like potential for OV. Pure multipoles and 2D distributions of TC are analyzed in theory and experiments.
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