Angular spread of partially coherent Hermite-cosh-Gaussian beams propagating through atmospheric turbulence

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8366-8380

  Yang, Ailin ^a   Zhang, Entao ^a   Ji, Xiaoling ^b   Lü, Baida ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANGULAR SPREADS; BEAM PARAMETER; FREE SPACES; GAUSSIAN SCHELL MODEL; HERMITE-COSH-GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PARTIALLY COHERENT; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249094248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008366     Document Type: Article

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