Title

Beam criteria for propagation of electromagnetic beams in the turbulent atmosphere

Authors

Authors

O. Korotkova;E. Wolf

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

POLARIZATION; COHERENCE; Optics

Abstract

A recently introduced criterion [O. Korotkova, E. Wolf, Opt. Lett. 32 (2007) 2137] for testing whether a scalar beam preserves its beam-like shape after it propagates some distance through the turbulent atmosphere is generalized to the case of electromagnetic beam propagation. The generalized criterion applies to monochromatic as well as to stochastic electromagnetic beams. The analysis is illustrated by examples. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

281

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

948

Last Page

952

WOS Identifier

WOS:000252762900007

ISSN

0030-4018

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