Orbital angular momentum wavefront velocity

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Is the wavefront velocity if an OAM mode 1 light beam proportional to its wavelength?
I understand that the helical structure step length gives the wavelength of the beam. In this case, a small wavelength beam would travel much slower. The problem is, f=v/λ, but now v<c and if λ is shorter then f is higher but not that much because v gets increasingly slower.
 
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calinvass said:
Is the wavefront velocity if an OAM mode 1 light beam proportional to its wavelength?
I understand that the helical structure step length gives the wavelength of the beam. In this case, a small wavelength beam would travel much slower. The problem is, f=v/λ, but now v<c and if λ is shorter then f is higher but not that much because v gets increasingly slower.
Sorry. I do not know this. But why would the small wavelength beam travel slower?