Scintillation analysis of Weber beam in atmospheric turbulence

This paper presents scintillation performance of Weber beam propagating in atmospheric turbulence. Weber beam is defined in parabolic cylindrical coordinates and it will be troublesome to solve analytically. Because of that reason, source field expression is converted into Cartesian coordinates and numerical atmospheric model is used. Our results indicate that Weber beam brings the advantage because scintillation index is substantially less as compared to spherical wave and Gaussian beam. It is possible to mitigate scintillation if Weber beam involving more and small intensities is generated. We anticipate that communication system designers will use outputs of this study.

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This study presents the scintillation performance of Weber beam propagating in atmospheric turbulence, showing that it has a lower scintillation index compared to spherical wave and Gaussian beam. Mitigation of scintillation is possible by generating Weber beams with more and smaller intensities, and the outputs of this study are anticipated to be used by communication system designers.