Beam wandering in the atmosphere: The effect of partial coherence

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Berman, G P ^a   Chumak, A A ^a,b   Gorshkov, V N ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BEAM WANDERING; PARTIAL COHERENCE; PHOTON KINETICS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 36749028719     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.056606     Document Type: Article

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