Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 24, 2401008(2022)

Scaling Law for Beam Spreading During High-Energy Laser Propagation in Atmosphere

Xingwang Sun, Qing Zhang, Zheqiang Zhong, and Bin Zhang*
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  • College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, Sichuan , China
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    Variation of fitting coefficient At with initial beam quality factor β0 and wavelength λ. (a) Beam spreading for different beam quality factor β0 with D/r0; (b) variation of fitting coefficient At with initial beam quality factor β0; (c) beam spreading for different wavelength λ with D/r0; (d) variation of fitting coefficient At with λ for initial beam quality factor β0 of 3.0,7.3, and10.0
    Beam spreading varying with thermal distortion parameter ND and variation of fitting coefficient N0t with Fresnel number NF of transmission system. (a) Beam spreading for different Fresnel number NF varying with thermal distortion parameter ND; (b) quantitative relation between fitting coefficient N0t and Fresnel number NF of transmission system
    Comparison of fitting effects between this paper and the literature under multiple typical transmission conditions.(a) λ=0.65 μm, β0=3.0; (b) λ=1.31 μm, β0=10.0; (c) NF=48.5, D/r0=1.7; (d) NF=84.7, D/r0=8.6
    • Table 1. Values of tracking jitter term coefficient B for different wavelength λ and initial beam quality factor β0

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      Table 1. Values of tracking jitter term coefficient B for different wavelength λ and initial beam quality factor β0

      λ /μm0.440.651.061.322.203.80
      β0=1.08.178.847.625.148.406.77
      β0=2.07.047.276.508.116.975.51
      β0=2.35.126.106.836.146.298.47
      β0=3.05.906.507.606.046.307.33
      β0=4.37.586.458.355.606.816.64
      β0=5.37.807.895.066.966.837.44
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    Xingwang Sun, Qing Zhang, Zheqiang Zhong, Bin Zhang. Scaling Law for Beam Spreading During High-Energy Laser Propagation in Atmosphere[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(24): 2401008

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    Paper Information

    Category: Atmospheric Optics and Oceanic Optics

    Received: Jun. 21, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 22, 2022

    Published Online: Dec. 14, 2022

    The Author Email: Zhang Bin (zhangbinff@sohu.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.2401008

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