Optimum Adaptive Imaging Through Atmospheric Turbulence
- 1 November 1974
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 13 (11) , 2609-2613
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.13.002609
Abstract
Recent results for the atmospheric mode decomposition are applied to an idealized imaging problem in which the receiver has a priori knowledge of the channel impulse response and mode decomposition. It is shown that a channel-matched filter receiver is essentially optimum and, on the average, achieves diffraction-limited performance. Furthermore, when the transmitting aperture lies within a single isoplanatic patch, this system may be realized without a priori channel knowledge by transmitted reference techniques.Keywords
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