Open AccessPropagation properties of Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in turbulence
Author(s) -
Jinlong Yu,
Fei Wang,
Lin Liu,
Yangjian Cai,
Greg Gbur
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.26.016333
Subject(s) - scintillation , optics , physics , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , degree of coherence , beam (structure) , coherence time , atmospheric optics , turbulence , intensity (physics) , coherence length , transmitter , wave propagation , gaussian , telecommunications , laser , channel (broadcasting) , computer science , superconductivity , quantum mechanics , detector , thermodynamics
We study the propagation properties (intensity, degree of coherence and scintillation) of a new class of beams in a turbulent atmosphere, which are called Hermite non-uniformly correlated (HNUC) beams. The results show that the beams not only have lower scintillation but also higher intensity than Gaussian-Schell model (GSM) beams over certain propagation ranges. We can adjust the beam order of HNUC beams to enhance the intensity of the beam in the receiver plane and, simultaneously, reduce the detrimental scintillation, and we can also adjust the coherence length of HNUC beams to optimize the effects of a given propagation distance between a signal transmitter and a receiver.