Correlations of the Phase Gradients of the Light Wave Propagating in a Turbulent Medium in the Regime of Weak Scintillations
Abstract
We investigate numerically correlation functions of the phase of light waves that propagate through turbulent media. Special attention is paid to the off-diagonal component of the correlation function of the phase gradients which is insensitive to the outer scale of turbulence. The results of our simulations are in a good agreement with the analytical expressions obtained in the work (I. V. Kolokolov, V. V. Lebedev, and F. A. Starikov, JOSA A 42(11), 1654 (2025)). Thus, we numerically confirm expectations based on uniformity of the perturbation theory for the logarithm of the envelope.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
Random lasers and scattering media
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
- Publisher
- Pleiades Publishing Ltd
- Volume
- 123
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 521–528
- Publication date
- 1 April 2026
- Language
- EN