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Evolution of the scintillation index and the optical vortex density in speckle fields after removal of the
Mingzhou Chen1, Filippus S Roux
1Applied Optics, School of Physics, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland. mingzhou.chen@nuigalway.ie
Abstract:
Knowledge of the behavior of stochastic optical fields can aid the understanding of the scintillation of light propagating through a turbulent medium. For this purpose, we perform a numerical investigation of the evolution of the scintillation index and the optical vortex density in a speckle field after removing its continuous phase. We find that both the scintillation index and the vortex density initially drop and then increase again to reach an equilibrium level. It is also found that the initial rate of decrease in both cases is 1 order of magnitude faster than the eventual rate of increase. Their detail shapes are however different. Therefore different empirical functions are used to fit the shapes of these curves.
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