Overview
- Features many updates and a new chapter providing a comprehensive mathematical tool set
- Enhances understanding through tables with mathematical notations at the end of each chapter
- Offers methods for rapid identification of ‘sweet spot’ wavelength regions
Part of the book series: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics (POSP, volume 20)
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This 2nd edition lays out an updated version of the general theory of light propagation and imaging through Earth’s turbulent atmosphere initially developed in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, with additional applications in the areas of laser communications and high-energy laser beam propagation. New material includes a chapter providing a comprehensive mathematical tool set for precisely characterizing image formation with the anticipated Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTS), enabling a staggering range of star image shapes and sizes; existing chapters rewritten or modified so as to supplement the mathematics with clearer physical insight through written and graphical means; a history of the development of present-day understanding of light propagation and imaging through the atmosphere as represented by the general theory described. Beginning with the rudimentary, geometrical-optics based understanding of a century ago, it describes advances made in the 1960s, including the developmentof the ‘Kolmogorov theory,’ the deficiencies of which undermined its credibility, but not before it had done enormous damage, such as construction of a generation of underperforming ‘light bucket’ telescopes. The general theory requires no a priori turbulence assumptions. Instead, it provides means for calculating the turbulence properties directly from readily-measurable properties of star images.
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Book Title: General Theory of Light Propagation and Imaging Through the Atmosphere
Authors: T. Stewart McKechnie
Series Title: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98828-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98827-2Published: 07 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98830-2Published: 08 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98828-9Published: 06 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2363-5096
Series E-ISSN: 2363-510X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXV, 678
Number of Illustrations: 108 b/w illustrations, 105 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematical Methods in Physics