  The availability of coherent sources of higher order Poincare optical beams
have opened up new opportunities for applications such as in the optical
trapping of atoms and small particles, the manipulation of chirally-sensitive
systems and in improved encoding schemes for broad-bandwidth communications.
Here we determine the intrinsic properties of Poincare Laguerre-Gaussian (LG)
modes which have so far neither been evaluated, nor their significance
highlighted. The theoretical framework we adopt here is both novel and
essential because it emphasises the crucial role played by the normally ignored
axial components of the twisted light fields of these modes. We show that the
inclusion of the axial field components enables the intrinsic properties of the
Poincare modes, notably their angular momentum, both spin and orbital as well
as their helicity and chirality, to be determined. We predict significant
enhancements of the intrinsic properties of these modes when compared with
those due to the zero order LG modes. In particular, we show that higher order
LG Poincare modes exhibit super-chirality and, significantly so, even in the
case of the first order
