Irradiance scintillation on laser beam propagation in the near ground turbulent atmosphere

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7382, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Qiang, Xi Wen ^a,b   Song, Jian Ping ^a   Feng, Jian Wei ^b   Han, Yan ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Irradiance scintillation; Laser propagation; Scintillation index

Indexed keywords

DATA-RATE; FLUCTUATION THEORY; INNER SCALE; IRRADIANCE SCINTILLATION; LASER BEAM PROPAGATION; LASER COMMUNICATION; LASER PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SCINTILLATION; PATH LENGTH; PLANE WAVE; PROPAGATION PATHS; SCINTILLATION INDEX; SPHERICAL WAVES; TURBULENCE STRENGTH; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELASTIC WAVES; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SCINTILLATION; SPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 70450219468     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.833450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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