Two-scale solution for atmospheric scintillation
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 2 (12) , 2133-2143
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.2.002133
Abstract
We demonstrate that a recently derived approximate solution to the fourth-moment equation that was thought to be Valid only for strong scattering is in fact valid for all values of the scattering parameter. We use a modified Kolmogorov spectrum for the index-of-refraction fluctuations and present results in two dimensions for comparison with numerical solutions. We also present results in three dimensions that should represent a quantitatively accurate, theoretical description of the atmospheric-scintillation problem.Keywords
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