Average irradiance and polarization properties of a radially or azimuthally polarized beam in a turbulent atmosphere

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7665-7673

  Cai, Yangjian ^a,b   Lin, Qiang ^a   Eyyuboǧlu, Halil T ^c   Baykal, Yahya ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

AZIMUTHALLY POLARIZED BEAMS; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 44649197787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007665     Document Type: Article

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