Propagation of partially coherent beam through turbulent nonlinear media

Vadim V. Dudorov; Valeri V. Kolosov

doi:10.1117/12.562124

18 October 2004 Propagation of partially coherent beam through turbulent nonlinear media

Vadim V. Dudorov, Valeri V. Kolosov

Proceedings Volume 5552, Target-in-the-Loop: Atmospheric Tracking, Imaging, and Compensation; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.562124
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

The propagation of a partially coherent wave field in inhomogeneous media is investigated. The influence of linear and nonlinear refraction and refraction parameter fluctuations on target characteristics of radiation are taken into consideration. The exact solution expressed in quadrature is obtained for the partially coherent radiation propagating through a turbulent medium with the Kolmogorov spectrum of fluctuations and a parabolic distribution of the mean refractive index. On the basis of comparison with this solution the accuracy of the solution of the equation for a coherence function of the second order obtained by the effective ray-tracing technique and taking into account the influence of turbulence and a nonlinearity of a medium to the propagation of a radiation with an arbitrary initial coherence is investigated.

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Vadim V. Dudorov and Valeri V. Kolosov "Propagation of partially coherent beam through turbulent nonlinear media", Proc. SPIE 5552, Target-in-the-Loop: Atmospheric Tracking, Imaging, and Compensation, (18 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.562124

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