Residual Turbulent Scintillation Effect and Impact of Turbulence on the Fourier Telescopy System

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5160, Issue , 2003, Pages 56-67

  Belen'kii, Mikhail ^a   Hughes, Kevin ^a   Brinkley, Tim ^a   Oldenettel, Jerry ^a  

^a TREX ENTERPRISES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Demodulation; Fourier Telescopy; Phase error; Poisson noise; SNR

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TELESCOPY; PHASE ERRORS; POISSON NOISE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMODULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITES; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELESCOPES;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 16544364064     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.509678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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