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We formulate the main conditions requiring amplitude-phase tracking to adapt to thermal defocusing: long line length, marked nonlinearity that accelerates mixing of the phase and amplitude inhomogeneities, deep amplitude modulation in the initial beam, and the presence of dislocations.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 42–50, November, 1985.
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Vysotina, N.V., Rozanov, N.N., Semenov, V.E. et al. Amplitude-phase adaptation over extended inhomogeneous paths by means of flexible mirrors. Soviet Physics Journal 28, 887–894 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891732
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