Free-space optical system performance for laser beam propagation through non-Kolmogorov turbulence

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Toselli, Italo ^a   Andrews, Larry C ^b   Phillips, Ronald L ^c   Ferrero, Valter ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Beam spread; Bit error rate; Fade; Kolmogorov spectrum; Scintillation; Signal to noise ratio; Structure function

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SCINTILLATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TURBULENCE MODELS;

BEAM SPREAD; FADE; FREE SPACE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; KOLMOGOROV SPECTRUM; NON-KOLMOGOROV POWER SPECTRUMS; NON-KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCES; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84945977311     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2870113     Document Type: Article

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