Keywords

Lasers, Military applications

Abstract

A formula for the average fade time of the intensity of a spherical optical wave travelling through atmospheric turbulence is developed. The model employed involves isotropic, homogeneous statistics using a lognormal distribution for the channel. The analysis is based on the fact that the logarithm of the irradiance is normally distributed and uses the work of S. O. Rice who developed such an expression for a zero mean, Gaussian process. The analysis employs the covariance function and the Taylor frozen turbulence hypothesis which results in an expression for the autocorrelation function.

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Graduation Date

Spring 1980

Advisor

Phillips, Ronald L.

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering

Format

PDF

Pages

57 p.

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Identifier

DP0013284

Subjects

Lasers -- Military applications

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Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

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