Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1994 · 114 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyPhysicsOptical AstronomyOpticsStellar AstronomyStellar AstrophysicsTurbulenceTurbulent FlowKolmogorov TheoryPhase Screen ModelingSpeckle FormationSpeckle PhenomenaStructure Functions
Standard FFT-based phase screen generation methods do not accurately model low-frequency turbulence characteristics. This paper introduces a new phase screen generation technique which uses low frequency subharmonic information to correct the problem. We compare our technique to two other subharmonic methods. The structure functions for this new method match very closely the structure functions of Kolmogorov turbulence theory.