Turbulence profiling using AAOL-BC

Authors

• Matthew Kalensky
• Yakov Diskin
• Matthew R. Whitely
• Eric J. Jumper
• Richard Drye
• Mitchell Grose
• Kevin Jackovitz, MZA Associates Corporation
• Brandon Hampshire, MZA Associates Corporation
• E. Smith
• Aaron J. Archibald, Air Force Institute of Technology
• Stanislav Gordeyev, University of Notre Dame
• M. Zenk

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-6-2020

Abstract

AAOL-BC was employed to conduct experiments that seek to measure path resolved turbulence quantities. To explore the impact that atmospheric turbulence imparts has on optical systems, a Path Resolved Optical Profiler System (PROPS) was employed. Ground-based and in-flight studies are conducted simultaneously and C_n^2 profiles are computed allowing the relationship between atmospheric turbulence strength and propagation path to be analyzed.

Comments

Conference Session: Aero-Optics

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DOI

10.2514/6.2020-0682

Source Publication

AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum (ISBN 978-1-62410-595-1)

Recommended Citation

Kalensky, M., Diskin, Y., Whiteley, M. R., Jumper, E. J., Drye, R., Grose, M., Jackovitz, K., Hampshire, B., Smith, E., Archibald, A., Gordeyev, S., & Zenk, M. (2020). Turbulence profiling using aaol-bc. AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-0682