Measurement of atmospheric turbulence parameters relevant to adaptive optic system design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4976, Issue , 2003, Pages 124-131

  Razdan, Anil K ^a  

^a LASER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Auto correlation function; Laser scintillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LASER BEAMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0042669709     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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