Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 32, Issue 2, 201003(2012)

Simulation on Mean Flow-Field Aero-Optic Effect of Airborne Optical Platform

Dong Hang*, Zhang Jianzhu, and Xu Ming
Author Affiliations
  • [in Chinese]
  • show less

    The simulation of the mean flow over airborne laser fairing as well as its aeroptic analysis with selected area electron diffraction software is presented. The simulation reveals that the aero-optic effect with respect to the mean flow field strongly depends on the beam direction: along different beam propagation directions, the root mean square of optical path difference varies between 0.13~1.20 μm, and tilt angle of beam axis varies between 1~12 μrad. Furthermore, the wave-front distortion caused by mean flow-field aeroptic effect is mainly low-order effect: the ratio of tilt to the aberration is about 92%, and the ratio of tilt, defocussing and astigmatism is about 99%. The average of beam quality factor β over all directions caused by no-tilt wave-front aberration is 1.8; when defocussing and astigmatism is corrected, the average of beam quality factor β is 1.16. The beam quality factor β caused by no-tilt aberration increases with the increment of beam radius as a nearly linear manner.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Dong Hang, Zhang Jianzhu, Xu Ming. Simulation on Mean Flow-Field Aero-Optic Effect of Airborne Optical Platform[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2012, 32(2): 201003

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Atmospheric Optics and Oceanic Optics

    Received: Aug. 11, 2011

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 19, 2011

    The Author Email: Hang Dong (dong_hang@iapcm.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/aos201232.0201003

    Topics