Invariance of spectrum of light generated by a class of quasi-homogenous sources on propagation through turbulence

✍ Scribed by Hema Roychowdhury; Emil Wolf

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 278 KB
• Volume: 241
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.06.071

✦ Synopsis

We show that after propagating through a turbulent medium the normalized spectrum of a beam generated by a class of quasi-homogenous sources is, to a good approximation, equal to the normalized source spectrum. This result is a generalization of a previously derived result for propagation in free space.