Effects of Turbulence Instabilities on Laser Propagation

Abstract

The author reports results on Furutsu's contested theory of beam wave irradiance in turbulent air, on his attendance of the 17th General Assembly of URSI (Warsaw, Poland), on a simple model for studying feature resolution, on the log-amplitude variance for plane and spherical waves, and on the angle-of- arrival power spectrum for an interferometer. Section 2 deals exhaustively with the spherical-wave extension of the irradiance scintillation theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0757221

Entities

People

  • David A. De Wolf

Organizations

  • Sarnoff Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplitude
  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Assembly
  • Contracts
  • Diffraction
  • Interferometers
  • Lasers
  • Plane Waves
  • Power Spectra
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Scintillation
  • Spectra
  • Spherical Waves
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy