Simplified propagation model for high power applications
Abstract
A simple propagation model is described which accounts for a number of effects observed in connection with the propagation of a high power CW laser beam in the atmosphere. The effects include the linear absorption and scattering due to the molecular and aerosol constituents of the atmosphere. Other effects are produced by atmospheric turbulence or are related to the nonlinear or self-induced thermal blooming which results from the absorption of a small amount of the laser beam power.
- Publication:
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Optical Propagation through Turbulence
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974osa..meet....7G
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Optics;
- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Laser Applications;
- Light Transmission;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Aerosols;
- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Collimation;
- Light Beams;
- Power Gain;
- Thermal Blooming;
- Turbulence Effects;
- Lasers and Masers