Abstract

The wander and long-term spread of a beam caused by turbulence are two important factors affecting channel targeting and information receiving in optics communication systems. In this paper, the wander and long-term spread of a perfect Laguerre–Gauss (PLG)/circular perfect Laguerre–Gauss (CPLG) beam in turbulent absorbing seawater are studied. The analytical expression of the wander for a CPLG beam in the weak turbulent fluctuation region and the analytical expression of the long-term spread for a CPLG beam in a weak to strong turbulent fluctuation region are derived by using the Rytov approximation and the generalized Huygens–Fresnel integral, respectively. Through numerical analysis, we find that the optimal beam diameter and self-convergence effect of the PLG beam exist under given communication link conditions, the long-term spread of PLG beam is smaller than that of the LG beam, but the wander evolution trend of the PLG beam with increasing propagation distance is opposite to that of the LG beam. PLG and CPLG beams have stronger resistance disturbance of turbulence than that of Laguerre–Gauss and circular Laguerre–Gauss beams, respectively.

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