• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 42, Issue 4, 0426001 (2022)
Ran Wu, Jun Chen*, and Gangkun Fu
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  • College of Optical and Electronic Technology, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/AOS202242.0426001 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ran Wu, Jun Chen, Gangkun Fu. Experimental Study of Multi-Mode High-Order Vortex Beam Wander[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(4): 0426001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Beam wander causes power fluctuation and scintillation of optical vortex beams and is important in the fields of optical free space communication, sensing, and long-distance imaging. In this paper, beam wander of multi-mode vortex beams with incoherent superposition and coherent superposition is studied experimentally by controlling the multi-mode vortex states and simulated perturbations. After measuring the power fluctuation and scintillation index of orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode in the OAM spectrum, we find that the high-order vortex beams have a better anti-power-fluctuation and anti-scintillation performance than the low-order vortex beams; the multi-mode vortex beams perform better than the single-mode vortex beams; the incoherently superposed multi-mode high-order vortex beams perform better than the coherently superposed high-order multi-mode vortex beams. The comparison results show that the incoherently superimposed multi-mode high-order vortex beams have a best anti-scintillation and anti-power-fluctuation ability over other types of vortex beams, and might be suitable for the use in a beam wander disturbed environment. The results can be helpful for the application of vortex beams in the field of long-distance transmission and communication.
    Ran Wu, Jun Chen, Gangkun Fu. Experimental Study of Multi-Mode High-Order Vortex Beam Wander[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(4): 0426001
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