Scintillations of partially coherent multiple Gaussian beams in turbulence

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1943-1954

  Yahya, Baykal ^a   Eyyuboglu, Halil T ^a   Yangjian, Cai ^b  

^a CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SCINTILLATION;

FLAT-TOPPED GAUSSIAN BEAM; HUYGENS-FRESNEL PRINCIPLE; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; PARTIAL COHERENCE; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PARTIALLY COHERENT FLAT-TOPPED GAUSSIAN BEAM; SCINTILLATION INDEX; SOURCE COHERENCE;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 65249114227     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001943     Document Type: Article

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