Abstract:
Scintillation index on the receiver axis is formulated in random medium when an optical source with an arbitrary field profile is employed. To represent the arbitrary source field profile, source is decomposed into pixels and the incident field to form the scintillations is expressed as the superposition of the fields from each pixel area. Thus obtained arbitrary field distribution is then introduced into the weak atmospheric turbulence formulation by using Rytov method. Our result, which is in summa ion and integral forms, reduces correctly to the known scintillation index of a Gaussian beam wave in atmospheric turbulence.