OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 7, issue 07, article # 12
pdf Aksenov V. P., Isaev Yu. N. Optimal mode expansion of phase reconstructed from measurements of wave front tilts in a turbulent atmosphere. Part I. Aberration representation in the Karhunen-Loeve-Obukhov basis. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 1994. V. 7. No. 07. P. 506-509.Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
In this paper we solve the problem on constructing optimal basis for mode representation of random phase of an optical wave in turbulent atmosphere. We propose an algorithm for obtaining eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the integral operator with a difference kernel for the case of circular aperture and invariance of the form of eigenfunctions relative to rotation of a coordinate system. We also describe a technique of optimization of the classical Zernike expansion by optimizing coefficients of this expansion based on additional information about spatial correlation of the phase fluctuations.