Title

Dual Aperture Measurements Of Two Km (Round-Trip) Intensity And Phase Perturbations One Micron Laser Speckle Propagating Through A Turbulent Atmosphere

Keywords

Coherent array; Coherent detection; K-distribution; Phase detection; Speckle; Turbulence

Abstract

The results of recent measurements of the intensity and phase fluctuations of one micron speckle propagating through a two kilometer (round-trip) turbulent path are presented. The data was collected at BMDO's Innovative Science and Technology Experimentation Facility (ISTEF) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida using a dual-aperture Nd:YAG coherent array transceiver developed at CREOL. The dual-aperture measurement technique allowed for the discrimination of atmospheric turbulence induced phase perturbations from relative target/platform motion induced phase modulation, since the target motion produces common phase modulation in both receivers. The phase and intensity were found to be Gaussian and K-distributed respectively.

Publication Date

6-15-1995

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

2471

Number of Pages

254-258

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211937.full

Socpus ID

85076727884 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85076727884

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