We report on the acousto-optic interaction that is induced by flexural acoustic vortices of linear polarization in circular optical fibers. A new way of stable efficient optical vortex generation from a regular beam is shown. A counterintuitive connection between topological charge of the generated optical vortex and exited in the fiber acoustic one is unveiled and explained. The corresponding transfer of orbital angular momentum is underlined.
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