Evaluation of the performance of a shearing interferometer in strong scintillation in the absence of additive measurement noise

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3674-3684

  Barchers, Jeffrey D ^a   Fried, David L ^b   Link, Donald J ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Science Applications International Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION; SHEARING MACHINES; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

RYTOV NUMBERS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0037141890     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003674     Document Type: Article

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