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Thermal self-interaction of laser radiation in a turbulent medium

B. S. Agrovskii, V. V. Vorob'ev, A. S. Gurvich, M. A. Kallistratova, D. P. Krindach, V. A. Myakinin

Institute of atmospheric physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The results are given of an experimental investigation of fluctuations in the intensity of a laser beam passing through a turbulent absorbing liquid medium (ethyl alcohol). On increasing the beam power, the intensity fluctuations were found to weaken. A qualitative explanation of this phenomenon is given. Conclusions following from calculations of weak intensity fluctuations, in which the temperature variation of the medium was described by a semi-empirical turbulent heat-conduction equation, were experimentally verified

UDC: 597.21.35+293.43

PACS: 42.20.Cc, 42.60.He

Received: 03.04.1979

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1980, 10:1, 31–35

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