Scintillations of incoherent flat-topped Gaussian source field in turbulence

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5044-5050

  Baykal, Yahya ^a   Eyyuboglu, Halil T ^a  

^a CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; SCINTILLATION; WAVELENGTH;

COHERENT COUNTERPARTS; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; SOURCE SIZE; TRANSMITTER APERTURE; TURBULENT HORIZONTAL ATMOSPHERIC LINKS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 35548970259     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005044     Document Type: Article

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