Affiliation:
1. Shandong Normal University
Abstract
The presence of atmospheric turbulence in a beam propagation path results in the spread of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes of laser beams, limiting the performance of free-space optical communications with the utility of vortex beams. The knowledge of the effects of turbulence on the OAM spectrum (also named as spiral spectrum) is thus of utmost importance. However, most of the existing studies considering this effect are limited to the weak turbulence that is modeled as a random complex “screen” in the receiver plane. In this paper, the behavior of the OAM spectra of twisted Laguerre-Gaussian Schell-model (TLGSM) beams propagation through anisotropic Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence is examined based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel integral which is considered to be applicable in weak-to-strong turbulence. The discrepancies of the OAM spectra between weak and strong turbulence are studied comparatively. The influences of the twist phase and the anisotropy of turbulence on the OAM spectra during propagation are investigated through numerical examples. Our results reveal that the twist phase plays a crucial role in determining the OAM spectra in turbulence, resisting the degeneration of the detection mode weight by appropriately choosing the twist factor, while the effects of the anisotropic factors of turbulence on the OAM spectra seem to be not obvious. Our findings can be applied to the analysis of OAM spectra of laser beams both in weak and strong turbulence.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Local Science and Technology Development Project of the Central Government
Subject
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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