QC 351 A7 no. 19 / ABSTRACT
The classical properties of an image formed by an optical system
looking through a turbulent medium are scintillation, agitation, and blur.
A simple but adequate statistical model is obtained describing the pupil
function in the presence of random wavefront disturbances in both amplitude
and phase. A measure of scintillation is then obtained in the form
of a normalized, weighted integral in frequency space containing all the
pertinent properties of the optical system. A similar measure of agitation
is then developed, and finally a description of the blur is obtained
in the form of an equivalent transfer function for the turbulent medium
in which the contribution from amplitude variations and the contribution
from phase variations are independent.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621612 |
| Date | 28 August 1967 |
| Creators | Shack, R. V. |
| Publisher | Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Technical Report |
| Rights | Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents |
| Relation | Optical Sciences Technical Report 19 |
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