Phase-space distribution of optical field intensity of laser beam propagation through atmospheric turbulence

Phase-space optics has its advantage over the research of laser beam propagating through atmospheric turbulence channel due to its special joint space-spatial frequency representation, which can be used to describe the property of optical signals between variables that form a Fourier transform pair. In this paper, we introduce the effect of atmospheric turbulence in terms of matrix into the phase-space analysis of laser beam propagation through turbulence. The far field optical intensity in the channel will be given in terms of phase-space representation and the phase-space distribution of received optical intensity can be plotted. It may be a new method analyzing optical scintillation under the turbulent condition.