TABLE OF CONTENTS William L.Wolfe Part Editor
Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Robert Q.Fugate
Starflre Optical Range
Directed Energy Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
| | refractive index structure parameter |
| d 0 | section size for laser beacon adaptive optics |
| D n | refractive index structure function |
| | phase structure function |
| | mean square phase error due to fitting error |
| | mean square phase error due to focus anisoplanatism |
| | mean square phase error due to sensor read noise |
| | mean square phase error due to servo lag |
| f G | Greenwood frequency |
| | Tyler G-tilt tracking frequency |
| | phase power spectrum |
| | G-tilt power spectrum |
| H(f, f c) | servo response function |
| N pde | number of photo-detected electrons per wavefront subaperture |
| r 0 | Fried s coherence length |
| SR HO | Strehl ratio resulting from higher-order phase errors |
| SR tilt | Strehl ratio due to full-aperture tilt |
| Z j( ?, ?) | Zernike polynomials |
| ? ? | rms full-aperture tracking error |
| ? ?G | rms full-aperture G-tilt induced by the atmosphere |
| ? 0 | isoplanatic angle |
[*] Acknowledgments: I would like to thank David L.Fried, Earl Spillar, Jeff Barchers, John Anderson, Bill Lowrey, and Greg Peisert for reading the manuscript and making constructive suggestions that improved the content and style of this chapter. I would especially like...
