Synergy Effect of Dually Superposed Orbital Angular Momentum States in Atmospheric Turbulence

Tao Zhang; Yi-Dong Liu; Jiandong Wang; Pusheng Liu; Yuanjie Yang

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2717179

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2017)

Synergy Effect of Dually Superposed Orbital Angular Momentum States in Atmospheric Turbulence

Tao Zhang,
Yi-Dong Liu,
Jiandong Wang,
Pusheng Liu,
Yuanjie Yang

Affiliations

Tao Zhang: School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Yi-Dong Liu: School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Jiandong Wang: School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Pusheng Liu: School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Yuanjie Yang: School of Astronautics and Aeronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2717179
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 1 – 8

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We corroborate that a synergy effect may emerge when the dually superposed orbital angular momentum (OAM) states with two adjacent OAM numbers pass through a weak fluctuation regime of the atmospheric turbulence. We show that this novel effect closely depends on the transition probabilities between this two OAM eigenstates for superposition. While such probabilities become larger, the synergy effect becomes more obvious. Our examples show that the synergy effect enables OAM states to better resist phase fluctuation caused by the atmospheric turbulence.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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