Abstract

The effect of scintillation on turbulence-induced centroid anisoplanatism is discussed, and it is shown that this effect has negligible effect on the resulting Strehl ratio for D/r₀ ≥ 100, where D is the optics aperture diameter and r₀ is the turbulence-induced lateral coherence length.

© 1987 Optical Society of America

Centroid anisoplanatism

H. T. Yura and M. T. Tavis
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(5) 765-773 (1985)

Scintillation-induced jitter of projected light with centroid trackers

Richard B. Holmes
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26(2) 313-316 (2009)

Scintillation and phase anisoplanatism in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing

Clélia Robert, Jean-Marc Conan, Vincent Michau, Thierry Fusco, and Nicolas Vedrenne
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23(3) 613-624 (2006)

Anisoplanatism in adaptive optics compensation of a focused beam with use of distributed beacons

Phillip D. Stroud
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(4) 868-874 (1996)

Stellar scintillation technique for the measurement of tilt anisoplanatism

Kim A. Winick and D. vL. Marquis
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(11) 1929-1936 (1988)