Convective water cell as a model of long optical path
V.A. Kulikov, A.V. Shmakov, O.V. Fedorova
A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky per., 3, 119017, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: optical paths, turbulence, dispersion of intensity fluctuations
Abstract
We learned statistics of intensity fluctuations after laser radiation propagation through a convective water cell. We demonstrated the similarity of water cell fluctuations and fluctuations of atmospheric long path by using normalized dispersion and Rytov index. Numerical simulations of both long and short paths have been performed with taking into account the probability density function. We showed that a water cell can served a laboratory physical model of long atmospherical optical paths.
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