Effects of underwater turbulence on average transmittance of cos-Gaussian and cosh-Gaussian optical beams

Abstract

The impacts of underwater turbulence on the average optical transmittance are investigated when optical cosine-Gaussian and optical cosine-hyperbolic-Gaussian (cosh-Gaussian) beam propagate in weakly turbulent underwater medium. Findings obtained by using MATLAB reveal that when the displacement parameter is smaller (larger) for the cos-Gaussian (cosh-Gaussian) beam, the average transmittance increases. Also, an increase in the source size results in elevated average transmittance values. Rate of dissipation of kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid is found to be directly proportional to the average transmittance. However, the rate of dissipation of the mean-squared temperature is inversely proportional to the average transmittance. Average transmittance is found to be essentially the same when the temperature-induced optical turbulence is dominant. An increase in the salinity-induced optical turbulence suddenly reduces the average transmittance of the cos-Gaussian and cosh-Gaussian beam in underwater turbulence. Finally, it is observed that for the same sized beams in the same underwaterturbulent medium, cosh-Gaussian beam will have larger average transmittance than the corresponding cos-Gaussian beam. As the influence and value of our research conclusion on the development of our research, we comment that cosh-Gaussian beams can be preferred over the cos-Gaussian and Gaussian beams in obtaining larger average transmittance in underwater turbulence.

KEYWORDS:

• Underwater turbulence
• optical propagation
• average transmittance
• cos-cosh-Gaussian beams

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