Atmospheric occultation of optical intersatellite links: Coherence loss and related parameters

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2290-2302

  Perlot, Nicolas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LASER BEAMS; LASER THEORY; ORBITS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATMOSPHERIC OCCULTATIONS; EXTENDED HUYGENS-FRESNEL PRINCIPLES; GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES; OPTICAL INTER-SATELLITE LINKS; PHASE SCREEN APPROXIMATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX ANISOTROPY; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE; WAVE STRUCTURE FUNCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 65349108788     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002290     Document Type: Article

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