Intensity Scintillations of an EM Wave in Extremely Strong Turbulence

Abstract

It has been shown that if one assumes gaussian field statistics in extremely strong turbulence, the scintillation index of an arbitrary source approaches unity. This result is independent of whether the source is coherent or incoherent, provided that the response time of the measuring apparatus is short compared with the coherence time of the source.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030723

Entities

People

  • Ronald L. Fante

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Intensity
  • Ionospheric Propagation
  • Laser Beams
  • Plane Waves
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Refractive Index
  • Scintillation
  • Spherical Waves
  • Statistics
  • Turbulence
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.