Browsing by Author "Jia, Xinhong"

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Citation - WoS: 9
Citation - Scopus: 10
Changes of the centroid position of laser beams propagating through an optical system in turbulent atmosphere
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2013) Ji, Xiaoling; Baykal, Yahya; Jia, Xinhong; 7812; Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği
In this paper, the effects of atmospheric turbulence, initial field amplitude, optical system and thermal blooming on the centroid position of laser beams propagating through the atmosphere are studied in detail. With the average over the ensemble of the turbulent medium, the centroid position is independent of turbulence. However, the centroid position depends on the centroid positions at the source plane and in the far-field, and the elements of ray-transfer-matrix. The physical reason why the centroid position changes on propagation is that the far-field centroid position is not located on the propagation z-axis due to the field phase distortion and the decentred intensity. The centroid position of laser beams with the spherical aberration and the decentred intensity is examined analytically. When laser beams with the decentred intensity propagate through the atmosphere, the effect of thermal blooming on the centroid position is investigated by using the four-dimensional (4D) computer code of the time-dependent propagation of high power laser beams through the atmosphere. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 74
Citation - Scopus: 78
Propagation of an Airy beam through the atmosphere
(Optical Soc Amer, 2013) Ji, Xiaoling; Eyyuboglu, Halil T.; Ji, Guangming; Jia, Xinhong; 7688; Elektronik ve Haberleşme Mühendisliği
In this paper, the effect of thermal blooming of an Airy beam propagating through the atmosphere is examined, and the effect of atmospheric turbulence is not considered. The changes of the intensity distribution, the centroid position and the mean-squared beam width of an Airy beam propagating through the atmosphere are studied by using the four-dimensional (4D) computer code of the time-dependent propagation of Airy beams through the atmosphere. It is shown that an Airy beam can't retain its shape and the structure when the Airy beam propagates through the atmosphere due to thermal blooming except for the short propagation distance, or the short time, or the low beam power. The thermal blooming results in a central dip of the center lobe, and causes the center lobe to spread and decrease. In contrast with the center lobe, the side lobes are less affected by thermal blooming, such that the intensity maximum of the side lobe may be larger than that of the center lobe. However, the cross wind can reduce the effect of thermal blooming. When there exists the cross wind velocity v(x) in x direction, the dependence of centroid position in x direction on v(x) is not monotonic, and there exists a minimum, but the centroid position in y direction is nearly independent of v(x). (C) 2013 Optical Society of America