Field guide to atmospheric optics / Larry C. Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Larry C., author.

Contributor:

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, publisher.

Series:

SPIE field guides ; FG41.

SPIE digital library

SPIE field guides ; FG41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meteorological optics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Atmospheric optics

Place of Publication:

Bellingham, Washington : SPIE, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This second edition of the Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics contains several new developments in atmospheric propagation through the atmosphere since publication of the first edition (2004). Some of these new topics include the HAP Cn2 profile model, ABCD ray matrices, beam-wander-induced scintillation, phase fluctuations, round-Earth model, analytic models for enhanced backscatter off of semi-rough targets, and non-Kolmogorov anisotropic models. As in the first edition, this Field Guide includes a review of classical Kolmogorov theory, Gaussian-beam waves in free space, and tractable atmospheric propagation models for the second-order and fourth-order field moments known, respectively, as the mutual coherence function and fourth-order cross-coherence function. Specializations of these general field moments allow the practitioner to easily calculate beam spreading, beam wander, spatial coherence (the Fried parameter), angle-of-arrival fluctuations, scintillation index, aperture-averaging effects, fade probabilities, bit error rates, and enhanced backscatter effects, among others. Knowledge of these mathematical models is important in many applications like imaging, free-space optical communications, and laser radar.

Contents:

Glossary of symbols

Atmospheric structure

Kolmogorov theory of turbulence

Optical wave models in free space

Atmospheric propagation: second-order statistics

Atmospheric propagation: fourth-order statistics

Imaging systems and adaptive optics

Free-space optical communication systems

Laser satellite communication systems

Laser radar and optical remote sensing

Non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence

Equation summary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"SPIE Digital Library."--Website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.

Title from PDF title page (SPIE eBooks Website, viewed 2018-12-10).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781510619388

1510619380

OCLC:

1078781324

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.