1. A Unifying Statistical Model for Atmospheric Optical Scintillation
- Author
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Jurado-Navas, Antonio, Garrido-Balsells, José María, Paris, José Francisco, and Puerta-Notario, Antonio
- Subjects
Physics - Optics ,Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Abstract
In this paper we develop a new statistical model for the irradiance fluctuations of an unbounded optical wavefront (plane and spherical waves) propagating through a turbulent medium under all irradiance fluctuation conditions in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. The major advantage of the model is that leads to closed-form and mathematically-tractable expressions for the fundamental channel statistics of an unbounded optical wavefront under all turbulent regimes. Furthermore, it unifies most of the proposed statistical models for the irradiance fluctuations derived in the bibliography providing, in addition, an excellent agreement with the experimental data., Comment: An extended version of this paper has been submitted and provisionally accepted for publication in the book under the working title "Numerical Simulations / Book 2", Ed. Intech, ISBN 978-953-307-1423-5
- Published
- 2011