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The effect of the laser mode structure on the scintillations in a weakly turbulent atmosphere is examined. Higher-order single-mode incidence as represented by a Hermite-Gaussian beam is found to yield the same scintillations as the fundamental mode incidence (i.e., Gaussian beam wave).
© 1987 Optical Society of America
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