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Directionality of Gaussian Schell-model beams propagating in atmospheric turbulence
Tomohiro Shirai1, Aristide Dogariu, Emil Wolf
1Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-8564, Japan. t.shirai@aist.go.jp
Optics Letters
|April 22, 2003
Abstract:
It is known that some partially coherent Gaussian Shell-model beams may generate, in free space, the same angular distribution of radiant intensity as a fully coherent laser beam. We show that this result also holds even if the beams propagate in atmospheric turbulence, irrespective of the particular model of turbulence used. The result is illustrated by an example.