Orbital angular momentum in optical waves propagating through distributed turbulence

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24596-24608

  Sanchez, Darryl J ^a   Oesch, Denis W ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS;

BRANCH POINTS; NON-TRIVIAL; OPTICAL WAVES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 82055206594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024596     Document Type: Article

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19. D. W. Oesch and D. J. Sanchez, "Studying the optical field in and through the failure of the Rytov approximation", Optics Express (2011). In preparation.
20. D. J. Sanchez and D. W. Oesch, "The effect of orbital angular momentum in the Rytov approximation", In preparation.
21. D. J. Sanchez, D. W. Oesch, and S. M. Gregory, "Orbital angular momentum in waves propagating through galactic clouds and dust", In preparation.