Theory of Scintillation: Plane Wave Model

Book: Laser Beam Scintillation with Applications

Author(s): Larry C. Andrews, Ronald L. Phillips, Cynthia Y. Young

Published: 2001

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.412858.ch3

Abstract

Most theoretical treatments of optical wave propagation have concentrated on simple models like an unbounded plane wave or spherical wave. The first optical wave model to be extensively studied was the plane wave, defined as one in which the equiphase surfaces (phase fronts) form parallel planes.