Optical turbulence parameters characterized via optical measurements over a 2.33 km free-space laser path

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14645-14654

  Tunick, Arnold ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION; TURBULENCE;

APERTURE AVERAGING; CALCULATED VALUES; CALCULATION ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL TURBULENCE; PROPAGATION PATHS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX STRUCTURE CONSTANT; SCINTILLATION INDEX;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51849111122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014645     Document Type: Article

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