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We consider the problem of phase fluctuations of radio waves behind a strong phase screen and in an optically thick layer. It is shown that the phase-fluctuation distribution of the received radiation at an observation point located in the saturated-scintillation area behind a turbulent phase screen is almost identical to the normal distribution of phase fluctuations of the wave on the screen. Amplitude and phase fluctuations of the received radiation are uncorrelated both for single-point and space-diversity reception if, in the latter case, the distance between the observation points exceeds the spatial scale of the diffraction component of the complex field of the received signal. Expressions for the mean square and the structural function of phase fluctuations of radio waves behind a turbulent phase screen in the saturated-scintillation regime are obtained. It is shown that the structural function of phase fluctuations in the diffraction component of the scattered field, which is exactly the function that forms saturated scintillations of the received radiation, almost coincides with the structural function of phase fluctuations on the screen. It is also shown that the diffraction effects can be neglected and the geometric-optical approximation should be used when calculating statistical characteristics of phase fluctuations of a plane wave in the saturated-scintillation area in an optically thick layer with large-scale refractive-index irregularities.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 275–282, April 2005
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Alimov, V.A., Rakhlin, A.V. Phase Fluctuations of Radio Waves in the Saturated-Scintillation Regime. Radiophys Quantum Electron 48, 247–253 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-005-0065-y
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