Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 4, 0426001(2022)

Experimental Study of Multi-Mode High-Order Vortex Beam Wander

Ran Wu, Jun Chen*, and Gangkun Fu
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  • College of Optical and Electronic Technology, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China
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    Beam wander causes power fluctuation and scintillation of optical vortex beams and is important in the fields of optical free space communication, sensing, and long-distance imaging. In this paper, beam wander of multi-mode vortex beams with incoherent superposition and coherent superposition is studied experimentally by controlling the multi-mode vortex states and simulated perturbations. After measuring the power fluctuation and scintillation index of orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode in the OAM spectrum, we find that the high-order vortex beams have a better anti-power-fluctuation and anti-scintillation performance than the low-order vortex beams; the multi-mode vortex beams perform better than the single-mode vortex beams; the incoherently superposed multi-mode high-order vortex beams perform better than the coherently superposed high-order multi-mode vortex beams. The comparison results show that the incoherently superimposed multi-mode high-order vortex beams have a best anti-scintillation and anti-power-fluctuation ability over other types of vortex beams, and might be suitable for the use in a beam wander disturbed environment. The results can be helpful for the application of vortex beams in the field of long-distance transmission and communication.

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    Ran Wu, Jun Chen, Gangkun Fu. Experimental Study of Multi-Mode High-Order Vortex Beam Wander[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(4): 0426001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Physical Optics

    Received: Aug. 2, 2021

    Accepted: Aug. 27, 2021

    Published Online: Jan. 29, 2022

    The Author Email: Chen Jun (chenjun.sun@cjlu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.0426001

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