Monte Carlo simulations of coherent and incoherent imaging through atmospheric turbulence

Christopher J. Solomon; Theo Mavroidis; Christopher Dainty

doi:10.1117/12.34803

1 July 1990 Monte Carlo simulations of coherent and incoherent imaging through atmospheric turbulence

Christopher J. Solomon, Theo Mavroidis, Christopher Dainty

Proceedings Volume 1319, Optics in Complex Systems; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.34803
Event: 15th International Optics in Complex Systems, 1990, Garmisch, Germany

Abstract

A flexible Monte Carlo program has been developed to simulate imaging through a turbulent atmosphere. We have applied this to conventional stellar speckle imaging and to the situation where an object is coherently illuminated and viewed after double passage through a random phase screen. We show that the timeaveraged image contains diffraction-limited information on the Fourier modulus of the object.

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Christopher J. Solomon, Theo Mavroidis, and Christopher Dainty "Monte Carlo simulations of coherent and incoherent imaging through atmospheric turbulence", Proc. SPIE 1319, Optics in Complex Systems, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.34803

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