David Fried
Keywords: Adaptive Optics
Abstract:
RytovProp is a new concept for the simulation of optical propagation through atmospheric turbulence. The concept is based on a felicitous combination of Rytov approximation based analytic results, matrix theory, and Gaussian random variable theory. Though less versatile than a wave optics propagation simulation approach, for those problems which it can accommodate it provides large sets of results orders of magnitude faster than a wave optics propagation simulation. In this work I describe the RytovProp concept and show results demonstrating its applicability to the Up-Link problem.
Date of Conference: September 16-19, 2008
Track: Adaptive Optics