Averaging of collected-power fluctuations by a multiaperture receiver system

Aniceto Mounta Belmonte; Adolfo Comeron; Javier Bara; Juan Antonio Rubio

doi:10.1117/1.600989

1 October 1996 Averaging of collected-power fluctuations by a multiaperture receiver system

Aniceto Mounta Belmonte, Adolfo Comeron, Javier Bara, Juan Antonio Rubio

Optical Engineering, Vol. 35, Issue 10, (October 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600989

When a large aperture is used to collect light propagated through the atmosphere, it performs an average operation on the irradiance fluctuations, resulting in collected-power fluctuations that are not as large as those that could be obtained from a point receiver. We present an expression for the aperture-averaging factor of optical scintillation using multiaperture architectures on the receiver configuration. That expression is used to assess the decrease in the total collected power fluctuations for several multiaperture receiver configurations.

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Aniceto Mounta Belmonte, Adolfo Comeron, Javier Bara, and Juan Antonio Rubio "Averaging of collected-power fluctuations by a multiaperture receiver system," Optical Engineering 35(10), (1 October 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600989

Published: 1 October 1996

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