A Fourier series based atmospheric phase screen generator for simulating anisoplanatic geometries and temporal evolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3125, Issue , 1997, Pages 327-338

  Welsh, Byron M ^a,b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Mission Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric optics; Atmospheric turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROJECTION SCREENS; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; FOURIER; PHASE SCREENS; TEMPORAL CORRELATION (TC); TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; VECTOR NOTATIONS; WAVE-FRONT PHASE;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0005278704     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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