Refractive turbulence profiling using an orbiting light source
Abstract
The possibility of obtaining vertical profiles of refractive turbulence C2 using an orbiting monochromatic
light source is examined. The method employs spatial and temporal filtering of the observed scintillation
pattern arising from density fluctuations in the atmosphere to measure C2/n. The impact of atmospheric
motion on the method is discussed along with ways to mitigate its effect. Single and array receiver
configurations are examined and the multiple response problem inherent in array configurations is corrected
by tuning the individual array elements to the array response. The method is expected to be significantly
better than the existing stellar scintillometer method.
Description
Applied Optics, Volume 29, No. 13, pp. 1877-1885 (May 1990)
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