title: Rician distribution to describe speckle statistics in adaptive optics.
abstract: Adaptive optics systems allow us to retrieve high-spatial-frequency information that is preserved in the wave fronts distorted by the atmosphere. Although wave-front correction should be as complete as possible, only partial compensation is attainable in the visible. We provide a procedure that uses the Rician distribution to predict the intensity statistics of the light at the image center as a function of the number of corrected Zernike polynomials.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Cantabria, Los Castros S/N, 39005 Santander, España.
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Canales
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Cagigal