Propagation of partially coherent beam in turbulent atmosphere: a review (invited review)

F Wang, X Liu, Y Cai - Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2015‏ - jpier.org
Partially coherent beam is preferred in many applications, such as free-space optical
communications, remote sensing, active laser radar systems, etc., due to its resistance to the …

Generation of partially coherent beams

Y Cai, Y Chen, J Yu, X Liu, L Liu - Progress in Optics, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Partially coherent beams with a prescribed phase, state of polarization, and degree of
coherence display many extraordinary propagation properties and are preferred in many …

Ultrahigh precision angular velocity measurement using frequency shift of partially coherent beams

X Zhao, Z Wang, X Lu, H Zhang, J Zhu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the recent decade, the rotational Doppler effect has garnered considerable attention for
stimulating the development of applications such as rotational Doppler velocity and …

Experimental synthesis of partially coherent beam with controllable twist phase and measuring its orbital angular momentum

H Wang, X Peng, H Zhang, L Liu, Y Chen, F Wang… - …, 2022‏ - degruyter.com
Twist phase is a nontrivial second-order phase that only exists in a partially coherent beam.
Such twist phase endows the partially coherent beam with orbital angular momentum (OAM) …

Orbital angular momentum spectra of twisted Laguerre-Gaussian Schell-model beams propagating in weak-to-strong Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence

H Wang, Z Yang, L Liu, Y Chen, F Wang, Y Cai - Optics Express, 2023‏ - opg.optica.org
The presence of atmospheric turbulence in a beam propagation path results in the spread of
orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes of laser beams, limiting the performance of free …

Twisted Laguerre-Gaussian Schell-model beam and its orbital angular moment

X Peng, L Liu, F Wang, S Popov, Y Cai - Optics Express, 2018‏ - opg.optica.org
It is well known that a light beam with vortex phase or twist phase carries orbital angular
momentum (OAM), while twist phase only exists in a partially coherent beam. In this paper …

Scintillation index of a multi-Gaussian Schell-model beam in turbulent atmosphere

Y Yuan, X Liu, F Wang, Y Chen, Y Cai, J Qu… - Optics …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-Gaussian Schell-model (MGSM) beam was introduced recently [Sahin and
Korotkova, Opt. Lett. 37 (2012) 2970; Korotkova et al., J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29 (2012) 2159]. In …

Experimental demonstration of vortex phase-induced reduction in scintillation of a partially coherent beam

X Liu, Y Shen, L Liu, F Wang, Y Cai - Optics letters, 2013‏ - opg.optica.org
We carry out experimental measurement of the scintillation index of a partially coherent
beam-carrying vortex phase (ie, Gaussian–Schell model vortex beam) propagating through …

Experimental study of the scintillation index of a radially polarized beam with controllable spatial coherence

F Wang, X Liu, L Liu, Y Yuan, Y Cai - Applied Physics Letters, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
Radially polarized (RP) beam with controllable spatial coherence (ie, partially coherent RP
beam) was generated in experiment recently [Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 051108 (2012)]. In this …

Propagation properties of Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in turbulence

J Yu, F Wang, L Liu, Y Cai, G Gbur - Optics express, 2018‏ - opg.optica.org
We study the propagation properties (intensity, degree of coherence and scintillation) of a
new class of beams in a turbulent atmosphere, which are called Hermite non-uniformly …