Investigation of the transmission characters of Ince-Gaussian beams in oceanic turbulence

Abstract

We focus on the transmission characteristics of InceGaussian (IG) beams in oceanic turbulence which is simulated by the random phase screen method. The transmission characteristics of IG beams with different distances
and turbulence intensities are also shown in the experiments. The impacts of
the temperature and salinity in oceanic turbulence are discussed in detail. The
experimental results show that the IG beam maintains the intensity distribution well
after transmission. In addition, compared with the others’ structured beams, the IG
beams show better robustness in oceanic turbulence with different salinity, turbulence
intensity and suspended solids. Our work paves the way for leveraging IG beams in
underwater optical communication.