Nondiffracting narrow light beam with small atmospheric turbulence-influenced propagation

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3152-3156

  Aruga, Tadashi ^a   Li, Shu Wing ^a   Yoshikado, Shin ^a   Takabe, Masao ^a   Li, Ruiming ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

LONG-RANGE NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS (LRNB);

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0032614520     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003152     Document Type: Article

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