Atmospheric compensation with a speckle beacon in strong scintillation conditions: Directed energy and laser communication applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 6388-6401

  Weyrauch, Thomas ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; SPECKLE; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEFRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; SCINTILLATION CONDITION; VLSI CONTROLLER; WAVEFRONT CONTROL;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 27944473687     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006388     Document Type: Article

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