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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Numerical investigation on propagation effects of pseudo-partially coherent Gaussian Schell-model beams in
Xianmei Qian1, Wenyue Zhu, Ruizhong Rao
1The Key Laboratory of the Atmospheric Composition and Optical Radiation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, AnhuiInstitute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China. qianxianmei@aiofm.ac.cn
Abstract:
The propagation effects of spatially pseudo-partially coherent Gaussian Schell-model beams in atmosphere are investigated numerically. The characteristics of beam spreading, beam wandering and intensity scintillation are analyzed respectively. It is found that the degradation of degree of source coherence may cause reductions of relative beam spreading and scintillation index, which indicates that partially coherent beams are more resistant to atmospheric turbulence than fully coherent beams. And beam wandering is not much sensitive to the change of source coherence. However, a partially coherent beam have a larger spreading than the fully coherent beam both in free space and in atmospheric turbulence. The influences of changing frequency of random phase screen which models the source coherence on the final intensity pattern are also discussed.
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