Comment on `Simulating thick atmospheric turbulence in the lab with application to orbital angular momentum communication'

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Abstract

Recently, Rodenburg et al (2014 New J. Phys. 16 033020) presented an approach for simulating propagation over a long path of uniformly distributed Kolmogorov-spectrum turbulence by means of a compact laboratory arrangement that used two carefully placed and controlled spatial light modulators. We show that their simulation approach mimics the behavior of plane-wave propagation, rather than general beam-wave propagation. Thus, the regime in which their orbital angular momentum (OAM) cross-talk results accurately represent the behavior to be expected in horizontal-path propagation through turbulence may be limited to collimated-beam OAM modes whose diameters are sufficient that turbulence-induced beam spread is negligible.

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