Table 1 The beam parameters of five cases shown in Fig. 3.

From: Dynamically sculpturing plasmonic vortices: from integer to fractional orbital angular momentum

Case

Optical waist/μm

Propagation distance/μm

Fractional number

A

w(0) = 8

z = 0

α = 0

B

w(0) = 3.75

z = 120

α = 0.25

C

w(0) = 2.25

z = 70

α = 0.5

D

w(0) = 1.28

z = 51

α = 0.75

E

w(0) = 1

z = 38

α = 1