Numerical investigation of performance of mirrored Bessel beam in turbulence

We study scintillation and bit error rate performance of mirrored Bessel beams through turbulent atmosphere in this article. We benefit from numerical method to model the atmosphere. Since scintillation plays a vital role in optical wireless applications, reduction in this term provides better performance in these systems. Bearing in mind this, our results indicate that it is possible to decrease scintillation by increasing beam order to three when strong turbulent conditions are satisfied. In addition, we observe that argument of Bessel beam has more dominant role than beam order in moderate turbulence. Lastly, mirroring brings us a slight advantage in case of bit error rate. Results of this study can be beneficial for optical link designers.