Detection and Resolution of Incoherent Objects Seen through a Turbulent Medium
JOSA, Vol. 59, Issue 3, pp. 331-341 (1969)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSA.59.000331
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Abstract
A background-limited optical system is to view an object through a turbulent medium. The threshold systems for detecting and resolving specific details of the object are derived and their probabilities of correct detection and resolution evaluated. The variance of a maximum-likelihood estimate of the position of the object is calculated for large signal-to-noise ratio. Specific numerical results are given for turbulence that produces a gaussian mutual-coherence function in light from a point object. A model of such turbulence, depicting it as concentrated in one or more thin, homogeneous phase screens, is proposed.
Citation
CARL W. HELSTROM, "Detection and Resolution of Incoherent Objects Seen through a Turbulent Medium," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 59, 331-341 (1969)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josa/abstract.cfm?URI=josa-59-3-331
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