Closed-form approximations for the angle-of-arrival variance of plane and spherical waves propagating through homogeneous and isotropic turbulence

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

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 415-422

  Cheon, Yonghun ^a   Muschinski, Andreas ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; TURBULENCE;

ANGLE-OF-ARRIVAL VARIANCE; RYTOV APPROXIMATION;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33847336017     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.000415     Document Type: Article

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