title: Covariance of the received intensity of a partially coherent laser speckle pattern in the turbulent atmosphere.
abstract: A theoretical expression for the covariance of the received intensity of a partially coherent laser speckle pattern after propagation through the turbulent atmosphere is developed. It is shown that the atmospheric perturbation on a partially coherent speckle pattern can be decomposed into a coherent term and an incoherent term. The dependence of contributions of these components on the level of turbulence, vacuum speckle-contrast ratio, and detector spacing is studied in detail and the results are compared with the available experimental data.
authors: V S
authors: VS
authors: Gudimetla
authors: J F
authors: JF
authors: Holmes
authors: M E
authors: ME
authors: Fossey
authors: P A
authors: PA
authors: Pincus