Abstract

The extended Huygens-Fresnel principle has been used to make an analysis of the first- and second-order statistics of the received intensity for speckle propagation through the turbulent atmosphere. These formulations include the effects of the log-amplitude covariance as well as the wave structure function and represent a significant extension of previous work. It was found that, with the inclusion of the log-amplitude covariance, the normalized variance is dependent on the turbulence strength and rises above unity.

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Statistics of speckle propagation through the turbulent atmosphere

Myung Hun Lee, J. Fred Holmes, and J. Richard Kerr
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(11) 1164-1172 (1976)

Variance of intensity for a discrete-spectrum, polychromatic speckle field after propagation through the turbulent atmosphere

J. Fred Holmes and V. S. Rao Gudimetla
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(10) 1176-1179 (1981)

Effect of the turbulent atmosphere on the autocovariance function for a speckle field generated by a laser beam with random pointing error

Myung Hun Lee and J. Fred Holmes
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(5) 559-565 (1981)

Variance and covariance of irradiance of a finite beam in extremely strong turbulence*

Myung Hun Lee
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68(2) 167-169 (1978)

Two-point joint-density function of the intensity for a laser-generated speckle field after propagation through the turbulent atmosphere

V. S. Rao Gudimetla, J. Fred Holmes, and Richard A. Elliott
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7(6) 1008-1014 (1990)