Scintillation statistics measured in an earth-space-earth retroreflector link

An experiment is described for the measurement of scintillation in a vertical path from an earth-based laser transmitter to the GEOS-III satellite and back to an earth-based receiver telescope. Measurements of the normalized variance, probability density function, and power spectral density of scint...

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Published in:Applied optics (2004) 1977-10, Vol.16 (10), p.2654-2660
Main Author: Bufton, J L
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:An experiment is described for the measurement of scintillation in a vertical path from an earth-based laser transmitter to the GEOS-III satellite and back to an earth-based receiver telescope. Measurements of the normalized variance, probability density function, and power spectral density of scintillation are presented. These results are discussed in terms of recent analytical results.
ISSN:1559-128X
DOI:10.1364/AO.16.002654