Coherence entropy during propagation through complex media

The deformation,flicker,and drift of a light field owing to complex media such as a turbulent atmosphere have limited its practical applications.Thus,research on invariants in randomly fluctuated light fields has garnered considerable attention in recent years.Coherence is a statistical property of light,while its full and quantitative characterization is challenging.Herein,we successfully realize the orthogonal modal decomposition of partially coherent beams and introduce the application of coherence entropy as a global coherence characteristic of such randomly fluctuated light fields.It is demonstrated that coherence entropy remains consistent during propagation in a unitary system by unraveling complex channels.As representative examples,we study the robustness of coherence entropy for partially coherent beams as they propagate through deformed optical systems and turbulent media.Coherence entropy is anticipated to serve as a key metric for evaluating the propagation of partially coherent beams in complex channels.This study paves the way for a broader application scope of a customized low-coherence light field through nonideal optical systems and complex media.

Low-Complexity DOA Estimation of Noncircular Signals for Coprime Sensor Arrays

This paper presents a low?complexity method for the direction?of?arrival(DOA)estimation of noncircular signals for coprime sensor arrays.The noncircular property is exploited to improve the performance of DOA estimation.To reduce the computational complexity,the rotational invariance propagator method(RIPM)is included in the algorithm.First,the extended array output is reconstructed by combining the array output and its conjugated counterpart.Then,the RIPM is utilized to obtain two sets of DOA estimates for two subarrays.Finally,the true DOAs are estimated by combining the consistent results of the two subarrays.This illustrates the potential gain that both noncircularity and coprime arrays provide when considered together.The proposed algorithm has a lower computational complexity and a better DOA estimation performance than the standard estimation of signal parameters by the rotational invariance technique and Capon algorithm.Numerical simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm.

Vector properties of a tunable random electromagnetic beam in non-Kolmogrov turbulence

Analytical formulas for a class of tunable random electromagnetic beams propagating in a turbulent atmosphere through a complex optical system are derived with the help of a tensor method. One finds that the far field intensity distribution is tunable by modulating the source correlation structure function. The on-axis spectral degree of polarization monotonically increases to the same value for different values of order M in free space while it returns to the initial value after propagating a sufficient distance in turbulence. Furthermore, it is revealed that the state of polarization is closely determined by the initial correlation structure rather than by the turbulence parameters.