Analysis of beam wander effects for a horizontal-path propagating Gaussian-beam wave: Focused beam case

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Recolons, Jaume ^a   Andrews, Larry C ^b   Phillips, Ronald L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric optics; Beams; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION;

BEAM WANDER EFFECTS; KURTOSIS; SCINTILLATION INDEX;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 36049029761     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2772263     Document Type: Article

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