Marine environment optical propagation measurements

Mark Chang; Carlos Omar Font; Freddie Santiago; Yaítza Luna; Erick Roura; Sergio R. Restaino

doi:10.1117/12.560079

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20 October 2004 Marine environment optical propagation measurements

Mark Chang, Carlos Omar Font, Freddie Santiago, Yaítza Luna, Erick Roura, Sergio R. Restaino

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Proceedings Volume 5550, Free-Space Laser Communications IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560079
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We describe the status and initial results of a long term campaign to measure the effects of atmospheric turbulence upon a horizontally directed laser beam, whose altitude above the sea surface is 2 metres. The measurements are made with a video rate Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor. Currently the source-receiver distance is 110 metres and additional sites have been identified to extend this single pass geometry to around 1 km. To date we have sampled over 70 hours of data, from December 2003 to April 2004. The preliminary scintillation power spectra and phase structure functions have been determined for some of the data sets, which we present here.

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Mark Chang, Carlos Omar Font, Freddie Santiago, Yaítza Luna, Erick Roura, and Sergio R. Restaino "Marine environment optical propagation measurements", Proc. SPIE 5550, Free-Space Laser Communications IV, (20 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560079

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