Abstract

An experiment is performed the aim of which is to investigate the phase fluctuations of a laser beam artificially generated thermal turbulence. This is achieved by observing the displacements of a fringe pattern obtained by means of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The temporal decay of the mean square refractive index fluctuation is studied. An interpretation of the results is given on the basis of the theory of an isotropic turbulent scalar field.

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Influence of Thermal Turbulence in a Convective Ascending Stream on Phase Fluctuations of a Laser Beam

M. Bertolotti, M. Carnevale, B. Crosignani, and P. Di Porto
Appl. Opt. 8(6) 1111-1114 (1969)

Interferometric Study of Phase Fluctuations of a Laser Beam Through the Turbulent Atmosphere

M. Bertolotti, M. Carnevale, L. Muzii, and D. Sette
Appl. Opt. 7(11) 2246-2251 (1968)

Statistical measurements of irradiance fluctuations of a multipass laser beam propagated through laboratory-simulated atmospheric turbulence

Arun K. Majumdar and Hideya Gamo
Appl. Opt. 21(12) 2229-2235 (1982)

Fluctuation Distribution of Gaussian Beam Propagating Through a Random Medium

Yasuaki Kinoshita, Toshimitsu Asakura, and Michio Suzuki
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(6) 798-807 (1968)

Optical propagation in laboratory-generated turbulence

Richard A. Elliott, J. Richard Kerr, and Philip A. Pincus
Appl. Opt. 18(19) 3315-3323 (1979)