Spatiotemporal Tracking of Persistent, Localized Speckles in Turbulent Atmospheric Propagation
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| author | Crumpton, Travis M. Vuong, Luat T. |
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| contents | Light propagation through turbulence produces speckles, whose ensemble behavior is typically characterized by snapshot intensity statistics. Here, we track the spatiotemporal evolution of individual speckles and quantify fragmentation, localization, and persistence under different diffraction and turbulence scales. Beam fragmentation coincides with complete spatial decorrelation defined by the magnitude-squared coherence. Fragmentation occurs closer to the source for larger beams, which indicates that smaller beams are more robust to decoherence. Subsequently, speckles are both spatially localized and persistent over distances significantly longer than their associated Rayleigh length. The combination of localization and persistence impacts the statistics of light relevant to their long-distance signaling and sensing. |
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| spellingShingle | Spatiotemporal Tracking of Persistent, Localized Speckles in Turbulent Atmospheric Propagation Crumpton, Travis M. Vuong, Luat T. Optics Applied Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Light propagation through turbulence produces speckles, whose ensemble behavior is typically characterized by snapshot intensity statistics. Here, we track the spatiotemporal evolution of individual speckles and quantify fragmentation, localization, and persistence under different diffraction and turbulence scales. Beam fragmentation coincides with complete spatial decorrelation defined by the magnitude-squared coherence. Fragmentation occurs closer to the source for larger beams, which indicates that smaller beams are more robust to decoherence. Subsequently, speckles are both spatially localized and persistent over distances significantly longer than their associated Rayleigh length. The combination of localization and persistence impacts the statistics of light relevant to their long-distance signaling and sensing. |
| title | Spatiotemporal Tracking of Persistent, Localized Speckles in Turbulent Atmospheric Propagation |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07688 |