Speckle-field propagation in "frozen" turbulence: Brightness function approach

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1924-1936

  Dudorov, Vadim V ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b   Kolosov, Valeriy V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Intelligent Optics Laboratory   (United States)

^c V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECKLE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BRIGHTNESS FUNCTION (BF) METHOD; SPATIAL CORRELATION CHARACTERISTICS; TARGET-IN-THE-LOOP (TIL) APPLICATIONS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33748709025     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.001924     Document Type: Article

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