Influence of atmospheric turbulence on states of light carrying orbital angular momentum

被引：198

作者：

Rodenburg, Brandon ^{[1
]}

Lavery, Martin P. J. ^{[2
]}

Malik, Mehul ^{[1
]}

O'Sullivan, Malcolm N. ^{[1
]}

Mirhosseini, Mohammad ^{[1
]}

Robertson, David J. ^{[3
]}

Padgett, Miles ^{[2
]}

Boyd, Robert W. ^{[1
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Rochester, Inst Opt, Rochester, NY 14627 USA

[2] Univ Glasgow SUPA, Sch Phys & Astron, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland

[3] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Ctr Adv Instrumentat, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[4] Univ Ottawa, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2012年 / 37卷 / 17期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.37.003735

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We have experimentally studied the degradation of mode purity for light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) propagating through simulated atmospheric turbulence. The turbulence is modeled as a randomly varying phase aberration, which obeys statistics postulated by Kolmogorov turbulence theory. We introduce this simulated turbulence through the use of a phase-only spatial light modulator. Once the turbulence is introduced, the degradation in mode quality results in crosstalk between OAM modes. We study this crosstalk in OAM for 11 modes, showing that turbulence uniformly degrades the purity of all the modes within this range, irrespective of mode number. (c) 2012 Optical Society of America

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页码：3735 / 3737

页数：3

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