Non-Gaussian statistics of partially coherent light in atmospheric turbulence

Ni Hao¹, Liang Chunhao², Wang Fei^{1, †}, Chen Yahong^{1, ‡}, Ponomarenko Sergey A.^{3, 4}, Cai Yangjian^{1, 2, §}

Experimental results for the normalized IC function of the GSM beams with different spatial coherence widths in the receiver plane, inferred from fast detector measurements in the absence of turbulence. The solid curves show a corresponding Gaussian fit.