Simulated impact of aero-optical effects on a 200 km air-to-air lasercomm link

Kevin R. Bock; Gary J. Baker

doi:10.1117/12.785011

18 April 2008 Simulated impact of aero-optical effects on a 200 km air-to-air lasercomm link

Kevin R. Bock, Gary J. Baker

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Proceedings Volume 6951, Atmospheric Propagation V; 695106 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.785011
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We present a simulation of a 200 km air-to-air link in the presence of aero-optical boundary layers. The boundary layer is shown to be the dominant phase aberrator. The random tilt content in the boundary layer is minimal, which reduces the performance gain of a fast steering mirror. Higher order adaptive optics are shown to provide a significant performance improvement provided it can run at high enough bandwidths.

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Kevin R. Bock and Gary J. Baker "Simulated impact of aero-optical effects on a 200 km air-to-air lasercomm link", Proc. SPIE 6951, Atmospheric Propagation V, 695106 (18 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.785011

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