Vol. 34, issue 12, article # 8

Abstract:

The results are presented of atmospheric experiments on compensation for the artificially introduced initial aberrations of the wavefront of a focused laser beam using the aperture sounding method based on an atmospheric backscatter signal from an additional source at a different wavelength. It is shown that adaptive compensation can reduce the amount of wavefront distortions, increase the backscatter signal, and restore the focusing of the main laser beam.

Keywords:

laser beam, wavefront, compensation, atmospheric backscatter

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