Picosecond laser pulse propagation delay fluctuation through atmosphere

Josef Blazej; Ivan Prochazka; Lukas Kral

doi:10.1117/12.878823

10 February 2011 Picosecond laser pulse propagation delay fluctuation through atmosphere

Josef Blazej, Ivan Prochazka, Lukas Kral

Proceedings Volume 7924, Atmospheric and Oceanic Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves V; 79240A (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878823
Event: SPIE LASE, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The influence of Earth atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of a picosecond laser pulse has been investigated from point of view detection with high temporal resolution. The results have been interpreted for optical time scale synchronization link allowing picosecond precision and accuracy in ground-to-space time transfer on a single photon signal levels. The details in laser beam position changes, phase wave-front deformation or beam profile changes were not studied like in adaptive optics as the goal of time transfer link is not the imaging but time tagging. The figure of merit of presented results is the time of propagation, its absolute delay and jitter. The correlation of the atmospheric turbulence with the propagation delay fluctuation was measured. The physical reason of the fluctuation of propagation time of laser pulse on picosecond level is the same, but the entirely different approach in comparison to adaptive optics was used to describe the effect.

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Josef Blazej, Ivan Prochazka, and Lukas Kral "Picosecond laser pulse propagation delay fluctuation through atmosphere", Proc. SPIE 7924, Atmospheric and Oceanic Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves V, 79240A (10 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878823

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