Effects of atmospheric turbulence on laser communications.
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Authors
Rankin, Thomas Prater
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Powers, John P.
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1974-06
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
A multiplicative model based on the amplitude modulation equation
is developed to predict the phenomonen of frequency translation effects
of atmospheric scintillation on AM laser communications. An experiment
to measure the effects of scintillation on atmospheric laser communications
is designed and built . Preliminary results of the experiment are in
general agreement with the predictive model. The best agreement is in
predicting the scintillation components present in the AM frequency
spectrum with some questions raised about the ability of the model to
predict the bandwidth of the translated scintillation noise.
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Thesis
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Electrical Engineering
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Naval Postgraduate School
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.