Propagation of nonuniformly correlated Bessel beams in the air–sea turbulent link

Nonuniformly correlated Bessel beams (NUCBs) have arbitrarily designed coherence distribution in the radial direction, which, coupled with the intrinsic nondiffraction characteristic of the Bessel amplitude, is supposed to exhibit improved reception quality in turbulent links. In this paper, the performance of NUCBs propagating through a special type of turbulent link, namely, the air–sea link, is analyzed. By means of wave optics simulation, the calculation of propagation properties such as aperture-averaged scintillation and the mean SNR of the NUCBs is conducted. Moreover, a comparative study between the nonuniformly and uniformly correlated Bessel beams (UCBs) is carried out.