TY - GEN
T1 - Atmospheric deflection of airborne lasers for lidar, communication and directed energy applications.
AU - New-Tolley, Matthew R.
AU - Shneider, Mikhail N.
AU - Miles, Richard B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper explores the altitude error from vertical refractive index gradients in non-standard atmospheres. Parameter spaces associated with airborne free space optical communication, directed energy and atmospheric LiDAR are explored. For the case of airborne free space optical communication, a simple yet accurate estimation of the deflection is obtained through dimensional analysis. Additional altitude errors were obtained by adding thermal perturbations which produced additional errors ranging from mm to cm.
AB - This paper explores the altitude error from vertical refractive index gradients in non-standard atmospheres. Parameter spaces associated with airborne free space optical communication, directed energy and atmospheric LiDAR are explored. For the case of airborne free space optical communication, a simple yet accurate estimation of the deflection is obtained through dimensional analysis. Additional altitude errors were obtained by adding thermal perturbations which produced additional errors ranging from mm to cm.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2019-0470
DO - 10.2514/6.2019-0470
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85083944664
SN - 9781624105784
T3 - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum
BT - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019
Y2 - 7 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER -