Estimation of aperture averaged scintillations in weak turbulence regime for annular, sinusoidal and hyperbolic Gaussian beams using random phase screen

Abstract

Using the random phase screen method, aperture averaged scintillations for annular, sinusoidal and hyperbolic Gaussian beams are estimated. Prior to this estimation, the designed random phase screen setup is tested against the known results of the existing literature from the aspects of receiver intensity distribution, point-like scintillation index and aperture averaged scintillation of spherical and Gaussian beam waves. Having obtained satisfactory results, we then proceed to estimate aperture averaged scintillations for annular, sinusoidal and hyperbolic Gaussian beams. Our findings indicate that at a fixed aperture radius of 5 cm, sine Gaussian beam exhibits the highest scintillation, annular Gaussian beam has on the other hand has the lowest scintillations. When examined against varying aperture sizes, the scintillation ordering of beams does not change. Furthermore, although larger aperture sizes achieve substantial scintillation reductions, the rate of reductions gradually become smaller. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.