Adaptive compensation over a 2.33 km propagation path with retro reflectors under strong scintillation conditions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6708, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Polnau, Ernst ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b   Carhart, Gary ^b   Weyrauch, Thomas ^a   Beresnev, Leonid A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Laser communication

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS CONTROLLER;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FEEDBACK; OPTICAL LINKS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 42149105706     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.736310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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