• DocumentCode
    906009
  • Title

    Limit imposed by atmospheric dispersion on the minimum laser pulsewidth that can be transmitted undistorted

  • Author

    Brookner, Eli

  • Volume
    57
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1969
  • fDate
    6/1/1969 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1234
  • Lastpage
    1235
  • Abstract
    The dispersive effects of the atmosphere due to index of retraction variations with the frequency will permit one to transmit vertically through the whole atmosphere under clear weather conditions pulses having widths ranging from about 40 ps to about 1.0 ps with distortions varying from correspondingly small to large over this range of pulsewidths. However, even for a pulsewidth of 1.3 ps the half-voltage pulsewidth is only increased by about 10 percent.
  • Keywords
    Atmosphere; Bandwidth; Distortion; Frequency; Laser noise; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Refractive index; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1969.7220
  • Filename
    1449150