TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulating thick atmospheric turbulence in the lab with application to orbital angular momentum communication
AU - Rodenburg, Brandon
AU - Mirhosseini, Mohammad
AU - Malik, Mehul
AU - Magaña-Loaiza, Omar S.
AU - Yanakas, Michael
AU - Maher, Laura
AU - Steinhoff, Nicholas K.
AU - Tyler, Glenn A.
AU - Boyd, Robert W.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - We describe a procedure by which a long (≳1 km) optical path through atmospheric turbulence can be experimentally simulated in a controlled fashion and scaled down to distances easily accessible in a laboratory setting. This procedure is then used to simulate a 1 km long free-space communication link in which information is encoded in orbital angular momentum spatial modes. We also demonstrate that standard adaptive optics methods can be used to mitigate many of the effects of thick atmospheric turbulence.
AB - We describe a procedure by which a long (≳1 km) optical path through atmospheric turbulence can be experimentally simulated in a controlled fashion and scaled down to distances easily accessible in a laboratory setting. This procedure is then used to simulate a 1 km long free-space communication link in which information is encoded in orbital angular momentum spatial modes. We also demonstrate that standard adaptive optics methods can be used to mitigate many of the effects of thick atmospheric turbulence.
KW - optical free-space communication
KW - optical orbital angular momentum
KW - turbulence
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84898001663
U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/033020
DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/033020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84898001663
SN - 1367-2630
VL - 16
JO - New Journal of Physics
JF - New Journal of Physics
M1 - 033020
ER -