The effect of non-Kolmogorov turbulence on the propagation of cosh-Gaussian beam

The propagation of cosh-Gaussian beam in turbulence with different power spectral density of refractive index is investigated. By using the expansion of mutual coherence function in Taylor series, analytical expression for the average intensity is presented. With the help of this expression, the intensity profiles with different parameters are analyzed. Relative errors of the analytical expression are studied, and the effects of power spectral density on beam spreading and evolvement are discussed in details. It shows that the analytical expression should provide reasonable approximations to study the propagation of cosh-Gaussian in non-Obukhov–Kolmogorov turbulence.