Refractive turbulence profiles via binary source intensity scintillation correlation.
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Holland, Ricky R.
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1988-09Advisor
Walters, Donald L.
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Rockower, Edward B.
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This study examines the binary source correlation technique for determining
vertical profiles of the refractive index structure parameter, Cn².
Theoretical intensity scintillation covariance functions and power spectra
for atmospheric layers of depth Δh at a mean altitude of h are derived.
These functions are related to the photoelectron counting statistics and the
spatial covariance of photoelectron counts for binary point sources. A
linear detector array in the exit pupil of an optical system is examined, and
the effects of the detection process uncertainty are explored. A lower bound
for the expected error of an experimental determination of the spatioangular
covariance of counts is derived. This error is then minimized via a least
squares analysis using the redundant information available in pairwise
multiple correlations of a signal from the detector elements of a ten element
linear array. The refractive index structure parameter profile is then
derived and found to be the undetermined coefficients of the spatial covariance
weighting functions in the least squares analysis.
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