Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 6, Issue 2, 0279(2008)

Propagation of Helmholtz-Gauss beams in weak turbulent atmosphere

Yixin Zhang and Tuo Zhu
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  • School of Science, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi 214122
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    Based on the Rytov approximation of light propagation in weak turbulent atmosphere, the closed-form expressions of field and average irradiance of each one of the four fundamental families of Helmholtz-Gauss (HzG) beams: cosine-Gauss beams, stationary Mathieu-Gauss beams, stationary parabolic-Gauss beams, and Bessel-Gauss beams, which are propagating in weak turbulent atmosphere, are obtained. The results show that the field and average irradiance can be written as the product of four factors: complex amplitude depending on the z-coordinate only, a Gaussian beam, a factor of complex phase perturbation induced by atmospheric turbulence, and a complex scaled version of the transverse shape of the non-diffracting beam. The effect of weak atmospheric turbulence on irradiance distribution of the HzG beam can be ignored.

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    Received: Jun. 13, 2007

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 5, 2008

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