Propagation of partially coherent flat-topped beams through a turbulent atmosphere

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2223-2231

  Dan, Youquan ^a,b   Zhang, Bin ^a   Pan, Pingping ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CIVIL AVIATION FLIGHT UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AVERAGE INTENSITIES; BEAM MODELS; BEAM SPREADING; CIRCULAR SYMMETRIES; FAR FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM METHODS; FRESNEL INTEGRALS; GLOBAL COHERENCES; HIGHER ORDERS; HUYGENS; INNER SCALES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY OF THE BEAMS; OUTER SCALES; PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHTS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL COHERENCES; SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTIONS; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERES;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 54749110875     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002223     Document Type: Article

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