Title

Scintillation In Moderate To Strong Opitcal Turbulence Along A Slant Path

Keywords

Atmospheric propagation; Optical turbulence; Scintillation

Abstract

Scintillation is one of the most common statistics in the literature of mathematical modeling of laser propagation through random media. One approach to estimating scintillation is through the Rytov approximation, which is limited to weak atmospheric turbulence with the standard Kolmogorov spectrum. Recently, a modification to the Rytov approximation was developed. Through a filter function approach, the new results for scintillation are valid for moderate to strong fluctuations along a horizontal path. To date, expressions governing scintillation for plane, spherical, and Gaussian beam waves has been developed for horizontal propagation paths. For the special cases of plane and spherical waves, expressions have been developed for slant paths. In this paper, an expression governing scintillation of a Gaussian beam along an uplink slant path valid in all regimes of turbulence is presented.

Publication Date

10-24-2005

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5793

Number of Pages

237-248

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602576

Socpus ID

26844522881 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/26844522881

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