Scintillation of Airy beam arrays in atmospheric turbulence

Opt Lett. 2010 Oct 15;35(20):3456-8. doi: 10.1364/OL.35.003456.

Abstract

We investigate the scintillation properties of Airy beam arrays in atmospheric turbulence. By utilizing the "self-bending" propagation property of Airy beams, the constituent beamlets propagate through relatively independent regions of turbulence but still largely overlap at the on-axis detector. Through numeric simulations, it is shown that the scintillation of an Airy beam array is significantly reduced and close to the theoretical minimum.