Geometrical modeling of optical phase difference for analyzing atmospheric turbulence

Demet Yuksel; Heba Yuksel

doi:10.1117/12.2024418

25 September 2013 Geometrical modeling of optical phase difference for analyzing atmospheric turbulence

Demet Yuksel, Heba Yuksel

Proceedings Volume 8874, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans II; 88740W (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024418
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Ways of calculating phase shifts between laser beams propagating through atmospheric turbulence can give us insight towards the understanding of spatial diversity in Free-Space Optical (FSO) links. We propose a new geometrical model to estimate phase shifts between rays as the laser beam propagates through a simulated turbulent media. Turbulence is simulated by filling the propagation path with spherical bubbles of varying sizes and refractive index discontinuities statistically distributed according to various models. The level of turbulence is increased by elongating the range and/or increasing the number of bubbles that the rays interact with along their path. For each statistical representation of the atmosphere, the trajectories of two parallel rays separated by a particular distance are analyzed and computed simultaneously using geometrical optics. The three-dimensional geometry of the spheres is taken into account in the propagation of the rays. The bubble model is used to calculate the correlation between the two rays as their separation distance changes. The total distance traveled by each ray as both rays travel to the target is computed. The difference in the path length traveled will yield the phase difference between the rays. The mean square phase difference is taken to be the phase structure function which in the literature, for a pair of collimated parallel pencil thin rays, obeys a five-third law assuming weak turbulence. All simulation results will be compared with the predictions of wave theory.

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Demet Yuksel and Heba Yuksel "Geometrical modeling of optical phase difference for analyzing atmospheric turbulence", Proc. SPIE 8874, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans II, 88740W (25 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024418

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