Simulating thick atmospheric turbulence in the lab with application to orbital angular momentum communication
Abstract
We describe a procedure by which a long () optical path through atmospheric turbulence can be experimentally simulated in a controlled fashion and scaled down to distances easily accessible in a laboratory setting. This procedure is then used to simulate a 1-km-long free-space communication link in which information is encoded in orbital angular momentum (OAM) spatial modes. We also demonstrate that standard adaptive optics methods can be used to mitigate many of the effects of thick atmospheric turbulence.
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@article{arxiv.1301.7454,
title = {Simulating thick atmospheric turbulence in the lab with application to orbital angular momentum communication},
author = {Brandon Rodenburg and Mohammad Mirhosseini and Mehul Malik and Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza and Michael Yanakas and Laura Maher and Nicholas K. Steinhoff and Glenn A. Tyler and Robert W. Boyd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.7454},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Rewritten abstract and introductory section to emphasize the importance of the work and to make it accessible to a more general audience. Section 2 was expanded to include some background on the physics of turbulence to allow the paper to be self-contained and understood by nonspecialists