title: Reduction of turbulence-induced scintillation by nonuniformly polarized beam arrays.
abstract: We have explored a method to reduce turbulence-induced scintillation by using an incoherent beam array composed of beamlets with nonuniform polarization. It is shown that significant scintillation reduction of such an incoherent beam array can be obtained by using nonuniformly polarized beamlets whose scintillation properties are optimized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA. ygu4@uncc.edu
authors.forename: Yalong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gbur