论文信息 - Dual aperture measurements of 2-km (round-trip) intensity and phase perturbations 1-μm laser speckle propagating through a turbulent atmosphere

Dual aperture measurements of 2-km (round-trip) intensity and phase perturbations 1-μm laser speckle propagating through a turbulent atmosphere

The results of recent measurements of the intensity and phase fluctuations of one micron speckle propagating through a two kilometer (round-trip) turbulent path are presented. The data was collected at BMDO's Innovative Science and Technology Experimentation Facility (ISTEF) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida using a dual-aperture Nd:YAG coherent array transceiver developed at CREOL. The dual-aperture measurement technique allowed for the discrimination of atmospheric turbulence induced phase perturbations from relative target/platform motion induced phase modulation, since the target motion produces common phase modulation in both receivers. The phase and intensity were found to be Gaussian and K- distributed respectively.

Thomas P. Costello | Philip Gatt | Dhinakarraj H. Gantala

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