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When an optical beam propagates through a turbulent medium such as the atmosphere or ocean, the beam will become distorted. It is then natural to seek the best or optimal beam that is distorted least, under some metric such as intensity or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Samuel N Stechmann

Light propagation in turbulent media is conventionally studied with the help of the spatio-temporal power spectra of the refractive index fluctuations. In particular, for natural water turbulence several models for the spatial power spectra…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Jinren Yao , Hantao Wang , Huajun Zhang , Jiandong Cai , Mingyuan Ren , Yu Zhang , Olga Korotkova

Optical turbulence, driven by fluctuations of the atmospheric refractive index, poses a significant challenge to ground-based optical systems, as it distorts the propagation of light. This degradation affects both astronomical observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Mary Joe Medlej , Rahul Srinivasan , Simon Prunet , Aziz Ziad , Christophe Giordano

In an optical experiment, we report a wave turbulence regime that, starting with weakly nonlinear waves with randomized phases, shows an inverse cascade of photons towards the lowest wavenumbers. We show that the cascade is induced by a…

In this paper we develop a new statistical model for the irradiance fluctuations of an unbounded optical wavefront (plane and spherical waves) propagating through a turbulent medium under all irradiance fluctuation conditions in…

We develop a straightforward analytical framework for the propagation of spatial light modes through a turbulent atmosphere. Built upon the split-step approach with the mode-based optical field representation, it directly assesses how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Konstantin Kravtsov

Optical turbulence is the term that is used being based on the analogy between hydrodynamic and optical equations. The phenomenon of turbulent photon filamentation occurs in lasers and other active optical media at high Fresnel numbers. A…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Yukalov

Since the 1970s, analogies between laser dynamics and fluid systems have provided insight into phenomena such as chaos, multistability, and turbulence. Building on this perspective, we model the optical field as an energy fluid and…

The power spectrum of water optical turbulence is shown to vary with its average temperature $\left\langle T \right\rangle$ and average salinity concentration $\left\langle S \right\rangle$, as well as with light wavelength $\lambda$. This…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jinren Yao , Mohammed Elamassie , Olga Korotkova

Optical beams propagating through atmospheric turbulence undergo spatiotemporal intensity fluctuations that deviate significantly from an ideal Gaussian profile. In this work, we present a unified theoretical and experimental framework for…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Shouvik Sadhukhan , C. S. Narayanamurthy

Light propagation in ocean is influenced by the refractive-index which is related to temperature, salinity, outer-scale, etc. Based on Hill's model 1 (H1), two kinds of oceanic refractive-index spectrum (ORIS) have been proposed to describe…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jian-Dong Cai , Jin-Ren Yao , Han-Tao Wang , Hua-Jun Zhang , Ming-Yuan Ren , Yu Zhang

Turbulence is a challenging feature common to a wide range of complex phenomena. Random fibre lasers are a special class of lasers in which the feedback arises from multiple scattering in a one-dimensional disordered cavity-less medium.…

The problem of describing optical turbulent structures, arising in resonant media with high Fresnel numbers, is reviewed. The consideration is based on the probabilistic approach to pattern selection, ascribing a probability distribution of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 V. I. Yukalov

First, we make a revision of the up-to-date Passive Scalar Fields properties: also, the refractive index is among them. Afterwards, we formulated the properties that make the family of `isotropic' fractional Brownian motion (with parameter…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario G. Perez

Turbulent fluctuations of the atmospheric refraction index, so-called optical turbulence, can significantly distort propagating laser beams. Therefore, modeling the strength of these fluctuations ($C_n^2$) is highly relevant for the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Maximilian Pierzyna , Rudolf Saathof , Sukanta Basu

A light ray in space is characterized by two vectors: (i) a transverse spatial-vector associated with the point where the ray intersects a given spherical cap; (ii) an angular-frequency vector which defines the ray direction of propagation.…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-10 Éric Fogret , Pierre Pellat-Finet

The statistical evolution of ensembles of random, weakly-interacting waves is governed by wave kinetic equations. To simplify the analysis, one frequently works with reduced differential models of the wave kinetics. However, the conditions…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Jonathan Skipp , Jason Laurie , Sergey Nazarenko

The cross-spectral density of coherent Gaussian vortex beams propagating through weak oceanic turbulence is derived from extended Huygens-Fresnel principle and Nikishov spectrum. The evolution of a coherent superposition field composed of…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-02 Hantao Wang , Huajun Zhang , Mingyuan Ren , Jiandong Cai , Yu Zhang

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) on a periodic structure sandwiched between two homogeneous media is a guided mode with a frequency and a wavenumber such that propagating plane waves with the same frequency and wavenumber exist in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-01-01 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

The optical spectrum of liquid water is analyzed by subsystem time-dependent density functional theory. We provide simple explanations for several important (and so far elusive) features. Due to the disordered environment surrounding each…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-23 Sudheer Kumar P. , Michele Pavanello
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