Laboratory atmospheric compensation experiment

C. Drutman; James P. Moran; Francisco Faria-e-Maia; Howard Hyman; Jeffrey A. Russell

doi:10.1117/12.145227

6 June 1993 Laboratory atmospheric compensation experiment

C. Drutman, James P. Moran, Francisco Faria-e-Maia, Howard Hyman, Jeffrey A. Russell

Proceedings Volume 1871, Intense Laser Beams and Applications; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.145227
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes an in-house experiment that was performed at the Avco Research Labs/Textron to test a proprietary atmospheric phase compensation algorithm. Since the laser energies of interest were small enough that thermal blooming was not an issue, it was only necessary to simulate the effect of atmospheric turbulence. This was achieved by fabricating phase screens that mimicked Kolmogorov phase statistics. A simulated atmosphere was constructed from these phase screens and the phase at the simulated ground was measured with a digital heterodyne interferometer. The result of this effort was an initial verification of our proprietary algorithm two years before the field experiment.

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C. Drutman, James P. Moran, Francisco Faria-e-Maia, Howard Hyman, and Jeffrey A. Russell "Laboratory atmospheric compensation experiment", Proc. SPIE 1871, Intense Laser Beams and Applications, (6 June 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.145227

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