Thermal blooming of laser beams in turbulent media
Abstract
This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments that studied the joint effect of turbulence and thermal blooming on laser beam propagation. The effect of turbulence on thermal defocusing, changes in the intensity fluctuations, and the coherence of radiation were investigated under the conditions of the self-action of narrow and broad beams both in the CW and pulse regimes of laser generation.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1364/JOSAA.2.002304
- Bibcode:
- 1985JOSAA...2.2304A
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Lasers;
- Atmospheric Optics;
- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Laser Beams;
- Thermal Blooming;
- Turbulence Effects;
- Defocusing;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Turbulent Mixing;
- Variance (Statistics);
- Lasers and Masers;
- THERMAL BLOOMING;
- TURBULENCE;
- LASERS