Influence of turbulence on the formation of a focused laser beam image in a mirror reflection

Valentina M. Sazanovich; Ruvim Sh. Tsvyk

doi:10.1117/12.370497

19 November 1999 Influence of turbulence on the formation of a focused laser beam image in a mirror reflection

Valentina M. Sazanovich, Ruvim Sh. Tsvyk

Proceedings Volume 3983, Sixth International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.370497
Event: Sixth International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, 1999, Tomsk, Russian Federation

Abstract

In this paper, results of experimental researches of influence of turbulence on the laser beam image at reflection from a mirror are presented. The study was carried out with a beam focused on a reflector for correlated (monostatic) and uncorrelated (bistatic) paths under conditions of strong fluctuations of intensity. Distributions of the intensity were recorded in the image plane of a reflector and were analyzed. The distribution of intensity is shown to be the two-scale, having wide basis (turbulent scale) and narrow peak (coherent scale) under the certain conditions at the correlated path. The scales of the object image have been determined depending on conditions of propagation and of a diameter of the receiving objective.

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Valentina M. Sazanovich and Ruvim Sh. Tsvyk "Influence of turbulence on the formation of a focused laser beam image in a mirror reflection", Proc. SPIE 3983, Sixth International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, (19 November 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.370497

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