title: Scintillation of nonuniformly polarized beams in atmospheric turbulence.
abstract: We demonstrate, through numerical simulations, that an appropriately chosen nonuniformly polarized coherent optical field can have appreciably smaller scintillation than comparable beams of uniform polarization. This results from the fact that a nonuniformly polarized field acts as an effective two-mode partially coherent field. The results described here are of direct relevance to the development of free-space optical communication systems.
authors: Department of Physics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA.
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