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Simultaneous Measurement of Turbulence and Particle Kinematics Using Flow Imaging Techniques
Published on: March 12, 2019
Measurement of optical intensity fluctuation over an 11.8 km turbulent path
Yijun Jiang1, Jing Ma, Liying Tan
1National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. jiang.yi.jun@tom.com
Abstract:
An 11.8km optical link is established to examine the intensity fluctuation of the laser beam transmission through atmosphere turbulence. Probability density function, fade statistic, and high-frequency spectrum are researched based on the analysis of the experimental data collected in each season of a year, including both weak and strong fluctuation cases. Finally, the daily variation curve of scintillation index is given, compared with the variation of refractive-index structure parameter C(n) (2), which is calculated from the experimental data of angle of arrival. This work provides the experimental results that are helpful to the atmospheric propagation research and the free-space optical communication system design.
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