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The performance of tomographic adaptive optics systems is intrinsically linked to the vertical profile of optical turbulence. Firstly, a sufficient number of discrete turbulent layers must be reconstructed to model the true continuous…

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The free-space transfer of high-fidelity optical signals between remote locations has many applications, including both classical and quantum communication, precision navigation, clock synchronization, etc. The physical processes that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 D. Vasylyev , A. A. Semenov , W. Vogel

We describe a procedure by which a long ($\gtrsim 1\,\mathrm{km}$) optical path through atmospheric turbulence can be experimentally simulated in a controlled fashion and scaled down to distances easily accessible in a laboratory setting.…

Phase screens above a telescope pupil represent the variation of the phase of the electromagnetic field induced by atmospheric turbulence. Instances drawn from such statistics are represented by a vector of random phase amplitudes which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-23 Richard J. Mathar

We present the details of predicting atmospheric turbulence by mining Zernike moment data obtained from simulations as well as experiments. Temporally correlated optical wave-fronts were simulated such that they followed Kolmogorov phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-14 Akondi Vyas , M. B. Roopashree , B. Raghavendra Prasad

Context. The contribution of quiet-Sun regions to the solar irradiance variability is currently unclear. Some solar-cycle variations of the quiet-Sun physical structure, such as the temperature gradient, might affect the irradiance. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 M. Faurobert , M. Carbillet , L. Marquis , A. Chiavassa , G. Ricort

In this paper, we consider the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of optical vertex formed from the radial coherent laser beam array, with the initially well-defined phase distribution. The propagation formula of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Gang Wang , Wei-Wei Zheng , Li-Qin Wang

The Earth's atmosphere is comprised of turbulent layers that result in speckled and blurry images from ground-based visible and infrared observations. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are employed to measure the perturbed wavefront with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Zhenxi Du , Saavidra Perera , Daniel Levinstein , Quinn Konopacky , Alex Madurowicz , Bruce Macintosh , Lisa Poyneer , Richard Wilson , Ollie Farley

The efficiency of the management of top-class ground-based astronomical facilities supported by Adaptive Optics (AO) relies on our ability to forecast the optical turbulence (OT) and a set of relevant atmospheric parameters. Indeed, in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 E. Masciadri , G. Martelloni , A. Turchi

The Earth's turbulent atmosphere results in speckled and blurred images of astronomical objects when observed by ground based visible and near-infrared telescopes. Adaptive optics (AO) systems are employed to reduce these atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Daniel M. Levinstein , Saavidra Perera , Quinn M. Konopacky , Alex Madurowicz , Bruce Macintosh , Lisa Poyneer , Richard W. Wilson

FEARLESS (Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large Eddy SimulationS) is a numerical scheme for modelling subgrid-scale turbulence in cosmological adaptive mesh refinement simulations. In this contribution, the main features of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-18 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

Phase referencing is a standard calibration procedure in radio interferometry. It allows to detect weak sources by using quasi-simultaneous observations of closeby sources acting as calibrators. Therefore, it is assumed that, for each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 I. Marti-Vidal , J. C. Guirado , S. Jimenez-Monferrer , J. M. Marcaide

Turbulence mitigation (TM) is highly ill-posed due to the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence. Most methods rely on multiple frames recorded by conventional cameras to capture stable patterns in natural scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoran Zhang , Jian Ding , Yuxing Duan , Haoyue Liu , Gang Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

In large eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layer flows over wind farms, wall-layer models are generally imposed for the surface fluxes without considering the spatial variability of the surface roughness. In this study, we consider…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Jagdeep Singh , Jahrul Alam

Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirrors, used to flatten the wavefront in astronomical…

The evolution of high dimensional entanglement in atmospheric turbulence is investigated. We study the effects of turbulence on photonic states generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, both theoretically and experimentally. One…

Simulating atmospheric turbulence is an essential task for evaluating turbulence mitigation algorithms and training learning-based methods. Advanced numerical simulators for atmospheric turbulence are available, but they require evaluating…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-24 Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley H. Chan

Monitoring turbulence parameters is crucial in high-angular resolution astronomy for various purposes, such as optimising adaptive optics systems or fringe trackers. The former are present at most modern observatories and will remain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Nuno Morujão , Carlos Correia , Paulo Andrade , Julien Woillez , Paulo Garcia

In a recent paper the authors presented an extended study aiming at simulating the classical meteorological parameters and the optical turbulence at Dome C during the winter with the atmospherical mesoscale model Meso-NH. A statistical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-29 Franck Lascaux , Elena Masciadri , Susanna Hagelin

Generative models show great promise for the inverse design of molecules and inorganic crystals, but remain largely ineffective within more complex structures such as amorphous materials. Here, we present a diffusion model that reliably…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-21 Kai Yang , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda