Steady optical beam propagating through turbulent environment

Abstract

A steady optical beam (SOB) propagating stably in a disorder medium is constructed by using a specially designed aspherical lens. Our theoretical and experimental results show that the generated SOB exhibits much better propagation features with small divergence and long Rayleigh length, as well as weak deformation through turbulent environment as compared with a conventional Gaussian beam. The beam parameter product of the SOB reaches 49.40% of the Gaussian beam by multiple measurements within a certain distance range. The SOB may find applications in optical communications and optical detection in turbulent transmission conditions.