Point-ahead limitation on reciprocity tracking*
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 65 (1) , 65-68
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.65.000065
Abstract
The average power received at a space craft from a reciprocity-tracking transmitter is shown to be the free-space diffraction-limited result times a gain-reduction factor that is due to the point-ahead requirement. For a constant-power transmitter, the gain-reduction factor is approximately equal to the appropriate spherical-wave mutual-coherence function. For a constant-average-power transmitter, an exact expression is obtained for the gain-reduction factor.Keywords
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