Electromagnetic Scintillation: Geometrical Optics, Vol. 1

Electromagnetic Scintillation describes the phase and amplitude fluctuations imposed on signals that travel through the atmosphere. The two volumes of Electromagnetic Scintillation will constitute a modern reference and comprehensive tutorial, treating both optical and microwave propagation and integrating measurements and predictions at each step of the development. This first volume deals with phase and angle-of-arrival measurement errors, accurately described by geometrical optics and will be followed by a second volume on weak scattering. In this book, measured properties of tropospheric and ionsopheric irregularities are reviewed first. Electromagnetic fluctuations induced by these irregularities are then estimated for a wide range of applications.

An important reference work for researchers in optics, astronomy, physics and electrical engineering.

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Twinkling stars are just one example of the phase and amplitude fluctuation of electromagnetic signals that travel through the earth's atmosphere. Collectively these fluctuations are known as scintillation and the study of them have become of greater importance as technologies for sending electromagnetic signals have gained importance. This first in a series of volumes, advancing from simplest to most complex models of electromagnetic propagation through random media, explores the subject with the most elementary description of electromagnetic radiation. Wheelon (Environmental Technology Laboratory of finds that valid descriptions for phase and angle-of-arrival fluctuation are provided by this model. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Albert D. Wheelon has been a visiting scientist for the past decade at the Environmental Technology Laboratory of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a BSc degree in engineering science from Stanford University and a PhD in physics from MIT, where he was a teaching fellow and a research associate in the Research Laboratory for Electronics. He has published thirty papers on radio physics and space technology in learned journals.