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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…

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Image restoration algorithms for atmospheric turbulence are known to be much more challenging to design than traditional ones such as blur or noise because the distortion caused by the turbulence is an entanglement of spatially varying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Zhiyuan Mao , Ajay Jaiswal , Zhangyang Wang , Stanley H. Chan

Nowadays, the subsistent anisotropic non-Kolmogorov (ANK) turbulence models are all established on the supposition that the long axis of turbulence cell ought to be level with the ground. Nevertheless, Beason et al. and Wang et al. have…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Chao Zhai , Zhenyuan Xue

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) allows to share random keys between two users with unconditional security: the key is usually generated by exchanging a stream of photons. The long-term vision of QKD is represented by a quantum network,…

Optical wireless communication (OWC) is highly vulnerable to the atmospheric turbulence and pointing error. Performance analysis of the OWC system under the combined channel effects of pointing errors and atmospheric turbulence is desirable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-16 Kartik Wardhan , S. M. Zafaruddin

Free-space Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two parties to share a random key with unconditional security, between ground stations, between mobile platforms, and even in satellite-ground quantum communications. Atmospheric turbulence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Wenyuan Wang , Feihu Xu , Hoi-Kwong Lo

A central question in free-space optical communications is how to improve the transfer of information between a transmitter and receiver. The capacity of the communication channel can be increased by multiplexing of independent modes using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

The free-space optical (FSO) communications can achieve high capacity with huge unlicensed optical spectrum and low operational costs. The corresponding performance analysis of FSO systems over turbulence channels is very limited,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jiayi Zhang , Linglong Dai , Yanjun Han , Yu Zhang , Zhaocheng Wang

We study the efficiency of adaptive optics (AO) correction for the free-space propagation of entangled photonic orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) qubit states, to reverse moderate atmospheric turbulence distortions. We show that AO can…

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) has gained significant attention due to its high-speed data transmission and throughput. Optical wireless channels are often assumed to be flat, but we evaluate frequency selective channels to consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

Turbulence poses challenges for numerical simulation due to its chaotic, multiscale nature and high computational cost. Traditional turbulence modeling often struggles with accuracy and long-term stability. Recent scientific machine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-06 Xintong Zou , Zhijie Li , Yunpeng Wang , Huiyu Yang , Jianchun Wang

A unified statistical model is proposed to characterize turbulence-induced fading in underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) channels in the presence of air bubbles and temperature gradient for fresh and salty waters, based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Emna Zedini , Hassan M. Oubei , Abla Kammoun , Mounir Hamdi , Boon S. Ooi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Underwater quantum communication has recently been explored using polarization and orbital angular momentum. Here, we show that spatially structured modes, e.g., a coherent superposition of beams carrying both polarization and orbital…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons presents a degree of freedom for enhancing the secure key rate of free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) through mode-division multiplexing (MDM). However, atmospheric turbulence can lead to…

The development of a quantum network relies on the advances of hybrid systems which includes ground to ground communication. However, the atmospheric turbulence of the environment poses a severe challenge to the optical quantum link. In…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) wireless communication technology is widely studied in recent literatures. But the atmospheric turbulence is rarely considered in analyzing the capacity of OAM-based millimeter wave (OAM-mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Hanqiong Lou , Xiaohu Ge , Qiang Li

Turbulence is a complex system exhibiting both universal statistical features and prominent coherent structures. We model turbulence using coherent vortices distributed within a multi-scale statistical framework, termed `woven turbulence'.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-04 Zishuo Han , Weiyu Shen , Yue Yang

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a key exchange protocol which is implemented over free space optical links and optical fiber cable. When direct communication is not possible, QKD is performed over fiber cables, but the imperfections in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Vishal Sharma , Subhashish Banerjee

In this paper, we consider the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of optical vertex formed from the radial coherent laser beam array, with the initially well-defined phase distribution. The propagation formula of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Gang Wang , Wei-Wei Zheng , Li-Qin Wang

Covert quantum communication is usually analyzed under idealized assumptions that channel parameters, such as transmissivity and background noise, are perfectly known and constant. In realistic optical links, including satellite, fiber, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Giuseppe Nebbione , Shahid Raza