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It is shown that the saturation level of the variance of the intensity fluctuations of a coherent light beam propagating In the atmosphere depends to a considerable extent on the behavior of the high-frequency part of the fluctuation spectrum of the refractive index of the air.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 31–34, February, 1975.
The authors thank V. E. Zuev and S. S. Khmelevtsov for fruitful discussions on the problems considered in this paper.
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Banakh, V.A., Zhukov, A.F., Mironov, V.L. et al. Saturation level of the intensity fluctuations of an optical beam in a turbulent atmosphere. Soviet Physics Journal 18, 170–172 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01103919
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