Measuring obscured OAM spectrum using Stokes fluctuations

Abstract

A novel technique to measure the orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum of the beam obscured by a complex random media is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. This is realized by measuring the complex correlation polarization function (CPCF) with the help of a two-point Stokes fluctuations correlation of the random light. The OAM spectrum analysis is implemented by projecting a complex field of the CPCF into spiral harmonics. A detailed theoretical framework is developed to measure complex amplitude and to decompose different integer OAM states of the obscured beam. The developed theoretical framework is verified by numerical simulation and tested by experimental demonstration of OAM mode compositions of the fractional optical vortex (FOV) beam.