High-Order Sinc-Correlated Model Vortex Beams

Abstract

We propose a new partially coherent vortex source model in which the spatial correlation function is a sinc function on the difference from the q-th power of the coordinates of two points of the source field. The beam radiated by such source is termed the high-order sinc-correlated model vortex (SCMV) beam. We derived the propagating formula of the cross-spectral density (CSD) function for SCMV beams in atmospheric disturbances. On the basis of the derived analytical expression, the behavior of the spectral density of the SCMV beams propagating in free space and atmosphere turbulence was investigated under comparative analysis. The results show that the spectral densities of such beams exhibited interesting novel features, which were significantly different from those of the trivial vortex beams.

Keywords

• partially coherent beams
• vortex beams
• atmospheric turbulence
• propagation characteristics