Turbulence Profile Measurement with a Dynamically Ranged Rayleigh Beacon

Steven M. Zuraski; Steven M. Zuraski; Jack E. McCrae; Steven T. Fiorino

doi:10.1364/PCAOP.2021.PM2H.2

OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2021 (3D, COSI, DH, ISA, pcAOP)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021),
paper PM2H.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/PCAOP.2021.PM2H.2

Turbulence Profile Measurement with a Dynamically Ranged Rayleigh Beacon

Steven M. Zuraski, Jack E. McCrae, and Steven T. Fiorino

Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena 2021

Washington, DC United States
19–23 July 2021
ISBN: 978-1-943580-89-7

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Characterizing Optical Turbulence (PM2H)

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S. M. Zuraski, J. E. McCrae, and S. T. Fiorino, "Turbulence Profile Measurement with a Dynamically Ranged Rayleigh Beacon," in OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2021 (3D, COSI, DH, ISA, pcAOP), H. Hua, B. Javidi, M. Martinez-Corral, O. Matoba, A. Stern, S. Thibault, T. Alieva, J. Ke, F. Willomitzer, F. Okten, P. Silveira, P. Banerjee, E. Stoykova, D. Chu, J. Park, F. Imai, C. Joo, M. Digman, D. Gardner, S. Gladysz, D. LeMaster, S. Basu, and O. Korotkova, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper PM2H.2.

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Abstract

Long range imagery systems are negatively affected by atmospheric turbulence. This paper describes a method for quantifying that turbulence strength profile along the viewed path by presenting a novel system concept and first measurement results.

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