Experimental Demonstration of Underwater Optical Ranging with Enhanced Accuracy Under Scattering Conditions Using Multiple Bessel Modes
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Jiang, Zile; Ramakrishnan, Muralekrishnan; Zhou, Huibin; Su, Xinzhou; Duan, Yuxiang; Song, Hao; Zeng, Ruoyu; Wang, Yingning; Bock, Robert; Tur, Moshe; Willner, Alan E.
- Source
- 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2024. :1-3 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Scattering
Distance measurement
Adaptive optics
Optical fiber communication
Optical scattering
Optical beams
- Language
We demonstrate a structured beam-based underwater optical ranging system through scattering, and we utilize multiple (>2) Bessel modes for accuracy enhancement. The average error decreases from ~16 mm to ~3 mm when the number of modes increases from 2 to 8.