With the wide application of laser beams in the atmosphere, such as optical communications, the propagation of
high-power laser beams and laser ranging, the propagation of laser beams in turbulent atmosphere has been studied
extensively for many years. The atmospheric turbulence severely influences the beam quality and therefore the efficiency
of the technology. Up to now, there have been many studies in random effects on laser beams propagation through
atmosphere. Typically, M2 factor which is a very important parameter for characterizing the laser beam quality is
widely investigated. In this paper, energy Strehl ratio was utilized to characterize the laser beam quality. The propagation
of a collimated Gaussian beam through atmospheric paths was numerically simulated using phase screens by the FFT
method. And the effects of various factors such as atmosphere turbulent parameter C2n, the inner scale, the outer scale
and meteorological parameters on energy Strehl ratio were analyzed by means of probability statistics. The results show
that the mean of energy Strehl ratio decreases with the transmission distance increasing, and it is the same with strong
refractive index fluctuation. However, the beam quality may be improved in shorter distance when energy Strehl ratio is
larger than 1. The energy density of the laser beam after propagating through turbulent atmosphere in the radius of that in vacuum can be calculated by energy Strehl ratio. It may represent the accepting states of the laser beam in a short
distance.
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