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9 January 2024 Focal plane analysis of optical power-related metrics for atmospheric turbulence-affected laser beams
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Abstract

The analysis of budget link and free space optical system performances requires the calculation of several metrics of the atmospheric turbulence-affected collected light. In this work, assuming the collected light is focused into an optical fiber or over a sensor positioned in the focal plane, we use the ABCD ray-matrix representation to calculate the impact of atmospheric turbulence on the power in the fiber or power over the sensor. Calculation of such metrics requires the knowledge of the transmitted average power that enters the receiver aperture (power in the bucket) and the long-term beam spread in the focal plane, from which the Strehl ratio can be obtained.

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Italo Toselli "Focal plane analysis of optical power-related metrics for atmospheric turbulence-affected laser beams," Optical Engineering 63(4), 041208 (9 January 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.63.4.041208
Received: 18 October 2023; Accepted: 18 December 2023; Published: 9 January 2024
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KEYWORDS
Turbulence

Receivers

Atmospheric optics

Collimation

Diffraction

Sensors

Transmitters

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