• DocumentCode
    892133
  • Title

    Power scintillations due to the wandering of the laser beam

  • Author

    Esposito, Raffaele

  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1967
  • Firstpage
    1533
  • Lastpage
    1534
  • Abstract
    The wandering of the laser beam causes a fading effect at the receiving terminal. A simple model is discussed to investigate the probability distribution of the power intercepted by a circular aperture.
  • Keywords
    Aperture antennas; Atmospheric waves; Geometrical optics; Laser beams; Laser theory; Optical propagation; Optical transmitters; Power lasers; Random variables; Receiving antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1967.5894
  • Filename
    1447824