Abstract

Dependence of light intensity on energy flow is the most intuitive presentation of an optical field. This dependence, however, also limits the applications to the interaction of the light field with matter. For further insight into this, we demonstrate a novel case of the optical field, named as the counterintuitive chiral intensity field (CCIF), in the highly focusing situation: the energy flow reverses during the propagation but the intensity distribution pattern is kept approximately invariant. Our results show that, in this process, the mode correlation decreases rapidly while the intensity correlation remains invariant in the focus area. Furthermore, this property is still valid even if the pattern helicity and number of spiral arms are changed. This work deepens the understanding of the relationship between energy flow and field intensity, and it will offer diversified operations in many applications, such as optical micromanipulation, optical fabrication, etc.

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