Abstract

At the receiving end of a laser beam propagation through a turbulent medium, the power collected by the photodetector is dependent on the sizes of the receiving aperture and field of view. In particular, because of turbulent scattering during propagation, this dependence must be described in a statistical manner. Also, in such a line-of-sight propagation, misalignments between the laser source and receiver affect the quantity of received power.

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