Influence of atmospheric turbulence on the transmission of orbital angular momentum for Whittaker-Gaussian laser beams

Abstract

We analyze the effects of turbulence on the detection probability spectrum and the mode weight of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) for Whittaker-Gaussian (WG) laser beams in weak non-Kolmogorov turbulence channels. Our numerical results show that WG beam is a better light source for mitigating the effects of turbulence with several adjustable parameters. The real parameters of WG beams γ and W0, which have significant effects on the mode weight, have no influence on the detection probability spectrum. Larger signal OAM quantum number, shorter wavelength, smaller beamwidth and coherence length will lead to the lower detection probability of the signal OAM mode.