Angle of arrival fluctuations for free space laser beam propagation through non Kolmogorov turbulence

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6551, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Toselli, Italo ^a   Andrews, Larry C ^b   Phillips, Ronald L ^b   Ferrero, Valter ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle of arrival; Atmospheric turbulence; Non kolmogorov spectrum; Structure function

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; NON KOLMOGOROV SPECTRUM;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OPTICAL LINKS; PHASE STRUCTURE; POWER SPECTRUM;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 35948957053     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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