Scintillation characteristics of cosh-Gaussian beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1099-1106

  Eyyuboǧlu, Halil T ^a   Baykal, Yahya ^a  

^a CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

GAUSSIAN BEAM SCINTILLATIONS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SCINTILLATION INDEX;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 34047180146     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001099     Document Type: Article

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