Publication detail

Influence of the Atmospheric Turbulence on the Laser Beam

BARCÍK, P. HUDCOVÁ, L. WILFERT, O.

Original Title

Influence of the Atmospheric Turbulence on the Laser Beam

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Free space optical (FSO) communication links offer a number of advantages over radio frequency links. Main advantages of FSO communication links are electromagnetic compatibility, license-free band and high data rate. However, reliability of these links is highly dependent on atmospheric and weather conditions. An optical wave propagating through the atmospheric transmission media is very sensitive on variety of atmospheric effects, e.g. beam wander, fluctuation of optical intensity and loss of spatial coherence. The purpose of this paper is to present the measurement of the distribution of the relative optical intensity variance in the Gaussian beam. The measurement of the spatial coherence is also presented.

Keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Gaussian beam; top-hat beam; spatial coherence; coherence radius

Authors

BARCÍK, P.; HUDCOVÁ, L.; WILFERT, O.

RIV year

2013

Released

9. 7. 2013

Publisher

TU Graz

Location

Graz

ISBN

978-1-4673-5822-4

Book

Proceedings of the 2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications & 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure (NOC-OC&I)

Pages from

83

Pages to

86

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT100597,
  author="Peter {Barcík} and Lucie {Hudcová} and Otakar {Wilfert}",
  title="Influence of the Atmospheric Turbulence on the Laser Beam",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications & 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure (NOC-OC&I)",
  year="2013",
  pages="83--86",
  publisher="TU Graz",
  address="Graz",
  isbn="978-1-4673-5822-4"
}