涡旋光束在湍流大气中的传输特性

根据广义的惠更斯-菲涅耳原理, 研究了涡旋光束在湍流大气中的传输特性。研究结果表明, 涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时, 截面光强会从空心分布转化为高斯分布。光束所带的拓扑电荷数以及大气湍流均会影响光强分布的变化。研究结果还表明, 涡旋光束能够抑制大气湍流对光束扩展的影响, 这一现象得到了实验上的证实。通过杨氏双缝干涉的方法, 还研究了涡旋光束经过湍流大气传输后的拓扑电荷数。研究发现, 涡旋光束经过湍流大气后, 拓扑电荷数将发生波动。     

大气湍流中部分相干聚焦涡旋光束的传输特性

基于广义惠更斯-菲涅耳原理和相位结构函数的平方近似,研究了部分相干高斯-谢尔模型涡旋光束被聚焦后在大气湍流中的传输特性,得到了焦平面上光强解析表达式.利用该表达式,详细研究了该类光束在大气湍流中传输焦平面上的光强分布特性.结果表明：在大气湍流中,随着传输距离的增加,涡旋光束的奇异性逐渐降低.对于拓扑荷大的以及空间相干长度较长的涡旋光束,光束奇异性的保持相对要好.在一定的焦距长度和湍流大气条件下,我们可以通过调整光源的拓扑荷和相干长度控制焦面光强分布和焦斑大小.另外,有一定拓扑荷的涡旋光束可以在一定程度上降低大气湍流对传输光束焦面光强分布的影响.     

像差对聚焦高斯光束大气传输轴闪烁特性的影响

采用多层相位屏的数值模拟方法,定量研究了几种典型像差对聚焦高斯光束在湍流大气中传输的轴闪烁特性的影响。研究结果表明,像散和慧差像差对远场光斑的轴闪烁分别具有较强的抑制和促进作用,较强的慧差和像散能分别提前和延后光斑轴闪烁饱和的出现。湍流较弱时的聚焦高斯光束大气传输光强起伏概率严重,湍流越强,光强起伏概率越接近于对数正态分布,且基本满足偏斜度为负,陡峭度为正。弱、中等湍流强度下,像差权重较大时,光强起伏概率分布主要受像差影响;像差权重系数较小时,光强起伏概率分布主要受湍流效应的影响,且各像差主要影响光强较弱区域的起伏分布情况。强湍流强度下,湍流效应对光强起伏概率分布占主要作用,趋近于对数正态分布。     

贝塞尔高斯涡旋光束在大气湍流中的传输特性

基于广义惠更斯-菲涅耳原理,推导了贝塞尔高斯涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时系统平均光强的解析表达式,研究了贝塞尔高斯空心涡旋光束在湍流大气中的光强传输特性,同时分析了大气湍流的强弱、涡旋光束的拓扑荷等对光束质量的影响.结果表明:贝塞尔高斯涡旋光束在大气湍流中传输时,光强分布经历几个连续的变化,相位奇异性也会在传输过程中消失,该过程与涡旋光束拓扑荷的数目、光束的束腰宽度以及大气湍流的强弱等因素密切相关.拓扑荷数目高的涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时,其奇异性的保持较拓扑荷数目低的涡旋光束要好.另外,基于桶中功率理论,分析研究了涡旋光束的拓扑荷数目、大气湍流强弱和束腰宽度对贝塞尔高斯涡旋光束在大气湍流中传输时的光束质量的影响.     

涡旋光束在湍流大气中的光束扩展

涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时,其振幅和相位会发生随机起伏,导致在接收平面处的光强起伏及光束扩展等。以低阶拉盖尔-高斯涡旋光束为例,利用激光大气传输四维程序数值模拟了不同条件下的涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时引起的光束扩展。由模拟结果可知,传输距离越长或湍流越强,涡旋光束在大气中传输时的束宽扩展受湍流的影响越大;涡旋光束的拓扑荷数越高、光束的束腰越小或光波的波长越长,其束宽扩展受大气湍流的影响越小。湍流的内尺度和外尺度也会影响涡旋光束的光束扩展,但影响程度相对较小。另外,通过计算仿真还比较了涡旋光束和普通高斯光束在湍流大气中传输时引起的光束扩展的差异。     

大气湍流中高斯空心涡旋光束的焦面光强分布

运用广义惠更斯-菲涅耳原理和相位结构函数的平方近似,研究了聚焦高斯空心涡旋光束通过湍流大气传输后在焦平面内的光强分布的理论模型,同时分析了不同大气折射率结构常数C2n、聚焦距离、光束拓扑荷和湍流外尺度对焦面光强分布特性的影响.结果表明:随着聚焦距离的增加,焦面光强分布由中央凹陷状向高斯分布转变.弱湍流对焦面光强分布的影响可以忽略;高拓扑荷光束在湍流大气中传输时光波奇异性的保持较低拓扑荷奇异光束要强;随着湍流外尺度增加,焦面光强分布的中央凹陷状变浅,光强分布变平滑.     

部分相干涡旋光束通过大气湍流上行和下行传输的比较研究

基于广义惠更斯-菲涅耳原理,以高斯-谢尔模型(GSM)涡旋光束作为典型的部分相干涡旋光束,推导出GSM涡旋光束通过大气湍流斜程传输的平均光强、均方根束宽和交叉谱密度函数的解析表达式,并用以研究了大气湍流中上行和下行对GSM涡旋光束传输和对相干涡旋的影响.结果表明,在相同条件下,GSM涡旋光束下行传输受大气湍流的影响要小于上行传输,下行传输时相干涡旋拓扑电荷守恒距离要长于上行传输.对所得结果做了物理解释. 关键词： 部分相干涡旋光束 相干涡旋 大气湍流 上行和下行传输     

超高斯涡旋光束在空间中的传输特性

研究了超高斯涡旋光束光强最大值、光斑半径以及环围能量半径等参数随传输距离和拓扑荷数的变化规律,并与高斯涡旋光束做了比较,结果表明:超高斯涡旋光束的光斑半径和环围能量半径随拓扑荷数及传输距离呈近似线性关系;对同一拓扑荷数和传输距离,高斯涡旋光束的能量较超高斯涡旋光束要发散;当拓扑荷数较大时,超高斯涡旋光束的光斑半径比高斯涡旋光束更大。针对光束质量研究了广义光束质量因子随传输距离和拓扑荷数的变化,结果表明传输距离足够远时,拓扑荷数较小的超高斯涡旋光束具有更好的光束质量。     

高能激光环形光束近场和远场传输特性

为满足高能激光环形光束在近场区和远场区的实际应用需求,从电磁波衍射积分方程出发,推导了环形光束光场分布和远场光强分布表达式,并对光场分布和光强分布进行了分析,得到光强分布与高斯光束的有限孔径大小、中心遮拦比和传输距离的关系.引入大气湍流场景,采用相位屏法对环形光束在不同湍流强度下的大气传输进行了数值模拟和分析,研究了受大气湍流影响远场光斑畸变、光斑破碎、光束扩展和漂移等的增强现象.最后开展了环形光束近场区大气传输数值模拟和实验,结果表明:随着传输距离的增加,光斑中心光强越来越强,光斑逐渐趋于均匀,平均光强呈类高斯分布,近场区环形光束扩散和光斑畸变现象受大气湍流影响而增强.     

拉盖尔高斯涡旋光束的传输

针对拉盖尔高斯涡旋光束,推导了其传输后目标平面上光电场的解析表达式,理论研究表明,传输一段距离后, 对于拉盖尔高斯光束的光斑大小的描述,高斯光斑尺寸已经不再适用.如果采用光强最亮处的半径来表示目标平面上的光斑大小则比较方便. 除了传输中的衍射导致光束展宽以外, 横截面上光束的相位分布也发生了独特的变化. 等相位线由原来的射线转化为弧线,拓扑电荷数为正时,弧线朝顺时针方向弯曲,拓扑电荷数为负时,弧线朝逆时针方向弯曲. 关键词： 涡旋光束 传输 光斑尺寸 相位分布     

Effects of low order atmosphere-turbulence aberrations on the vortex carrying Gaussian beam

The normalized intensity distributions at the focal plane of a vortex carrying Gaussian beam propagating in weak/middle turbulent atmosphere channel with z-tilt aberration, defocus aberration, astigmatism aberration or total turbulent aberration are discussed by numerical calculation. Our results show that the effect of z-tilt aberration on the intensity distribution of optical vortex beam is main effect of total turbulent aberration. In weak turbulent region, the effects of defocus and astigmatism aberration on the intensity distribution of a vortex carrying Gaussian beam can be ignored. In middle turbulent region, the effect of z-tilt aberration is still the most significant, but the effects of defocus and astigmatism aberrations, specially the effect of astigmatism on the center dark core of the intensity distribution at focal plane, can no longer be disregarded. Our results also show that for three low order aberrations, the beam with values of the topological charge, the beam have larger beam-radius and undergo smaller effects of z-tilt turbulent aberration on the doughnut distribution. For defocus aberration, the radius of the center dull of beam intensity increases with the values of topological charges increasing. And for astigmatism aberration, the beam with odd number topological charges, the center dull speck of beam intensity becomes to the bright speck. But for even number topological charges, the center dull speck of beam intensity maintains the dull one.     

The effect of tilt aberration and astigmatism of turbulent atmosphere on the intensity distribution of a vortex carrying Gaussian beam

The effect of tilt and astigmatism aberration of the turbulent atmosphere on the intensity distribution of a focused vortex carrying Gaussian beam was investigated based on the extended Fresnel-Kirchhoff diffraction integral and the quadratic approximation of phase structure function. Our results have shown that the intensity distribution on the focal plane in the effect of tilt aberration changes with the turbulent strength, the propagation distance and the topological charge of the initial beam. The propagation distance is larger, the focal spot size will be larger, and the central dip will be less deep. It is also noticed that the intensity distribution of a beam with single topological charge is affected more by tilt aberration in comparison to the beam with double topological charge. The effect of astigmatism on the intensity distribution is quite less than that of tilt aberration. For focused beam propagation in atmosphere, the effect of the tilt aberration on the intensity distribution of optical vortex beam is the main effect of total turbulent aberration.     

Focusing of a vortex carrying beam with Gaussian background by an apertured system in presence of coma

In this paper, diffraction pattern of a vortex carrying beam with a Gaussian background has been studied by using Fresnel-Kirchhoff diffraction integral, in the presence of third-order coma. Results of intensity distribution and encircled energy at the Gaussian plane have been presented for two values of the topological charge. Positional shift and splitting of the dark core have been investigated in detail. It is noticed that the diffraction pattern of a beam with double topological charge is affected more by comatic aberration in comparison to the beam with single topological charge. We have also verified our results by using the optical transfer function approach. Propagation of an apertured Gaussian background vortex beam through a π-phase shifter has also been studied for two values of the topological charge.     

Effect of tilt and astigmatism aberration of turbulent atmosphere on the intensity distributions of a LG11 beam

The effects of turbulent aberration such as z-tilt aberration, and astigmatism on the intensity distribution of double ring shaped LG₁₁ beam have been investigated using the Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction integral and the quadratic approximation. The effect of turbulent aberration on the intensity distributions at the focal plane with different turbulent strength, and propagation distance is analyzed numerically. It is observed that the effect of tilt aberration gives major effect on the intensity distribution of the LG_(1,1) beam in the turbulent atmosphere.     

线偏振相位涡旋光束的像散特性

提出采用像散系数表征涡旋光束的像散特性。利用螺旋相位板产生了线偏振相位涡旋光束,并对其光束质量及像散特性进行了实际测量。数值模拟了不同拓扑荷数的涡旋光束的传输特性及光束质量,分析了像散系数随拓扑荷数变化的规律,结果表明:当拓扑荷数为整数时,光束无像散,像散系数为零;当拓扑荷数为半奇数时,光束的像散特性明显,像散系数达到极大值;随着拓扑荷数整数部分的增加,像散系数的极大值减小。     

Power coupling of Gaussian vortex beam propagation through an optical system with the Cassegrain-telescope receiver in turbulent atmosphere

Model of Gaussian vortex beam propagation through an optical system with the Cassegrain-telescope receiver in turbulent atmosphere is established. With this model, the analytical formulas of the average intensity distribution at the receiver plane are derived, and the influences of the optical topological charge, the propagation distance and the turbulence strength are numerically analyzed. These studies show that optical power at the receiver plane concentrates in an annular area, which is suitable for power coupling by the Cassegrain-telescope receiver; the optical topological charge of the vortex source need to be optimized to access the most power coupling. Under the H-V 5/7 turbulence model, power coupling efficiencies of the optical system with different parameters are calculated. Results show that in comparison with the Gaussian beams, Gaussian vortex beams have great advantages in power coupling of optical systems with the Cassegrain-telescope receivers in turbulent atmosphere, which can be a new attractive application of the vortex beams.     

Influence of astigmatism and defocusing on the focusing of a singular beam

Using the Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction integral, the intensity distribution and encircled energy of a singular beam at the focal plane of a lens, has been numerically evaluated in the presence of astigmatism and defocusing. Study has been made for two values of topological charge. The aberration results in flattening of dark core and the effect is more pronounced for beam with double topological charge. Twofold symmetry in intensity distribution is observed for selected values of defocusing. The results have been verified by the optical transfer function (OTF) approach.