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Abstract We study scintillation and bit error rate performance of sine hollow beam in turbulent atmosphere. Since source field expression involves higher order term, we model atmosphere utilizing random phase screen. We show that normal sine hollow beam ( a = b ) having higher order has the least scintillation index considering point like scintillation. This brings us bit error rate(BER) of this type of beam in turbulent atmosphere is less comparing with Gauss beam when we use point like receiver. BER of anomalous beam ( a ≠ b ) having less scintillation index is lower than Gauss beam in strong turbulence region. In terms of aperture averaged scintillation, first order normal sine hollow beam and anomalous beams have less scintillation than Gauss beam.