Product Review

Since publication of the first edition of this text in 1998, there have been several new, important developments in the theory of beam wave propagation through a random medium, which have been incorporated into this second edition. Also new to this edition are models for the scintillation index under moderate-to-strong irradiance fluctuations; models for aperture averaging based on ABCD ray matrices; beam wander and its effects on scintillation; theory of partial coherence of the source; models of rough targets for ladar applications; phase fluctuations; analysis of other beam shapes; plus expanded analysis of free-space optical communication systems and imaging systems.

Contents

- Preface to Second Edition

- Preface to First Edition

- Symbols and Notation

- Basic Theory

- Applications

- Related Topics

- Appendix I: Special Functions

- Appendix II: Integral Table

- Appendix III: Tables of Beam Statistics

- Index