Long-term near-ground optical scintillation measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4976, Issue , 2003, Pages 132-140

  Giggenbach, Dirk ^a   Henniger, Hennes ^a   David, Florian ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Free space laser communications; Long term scintillation measurements; Optical near ground propagation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION;

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EID: 0043170790     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. D. Giggenbach, F. David, et al.: "Measurements at a 61 km near-ground optical transmission channel", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4635, 2002
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