Active laser radar systems with stochastic electromagnetic beams in turbulent atmosphere

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15834-15846

  Cai, Yangjian ^a   Korotkova, Olga ^b   Eyyuboǧlu, Halil T ^c   Baykal, Yahya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

^c CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

ABCD OPTICAL SYSTEMS; CROSS-SPECTRAL DENSITY MATRIX; ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; GAUSSIAN SCHELL MODEL; HUYGENS-FRESNEL INTEGRAL; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; PROPAGATION PATHS; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 54749093254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015834     Document Type: Article

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