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Numbers in the index correspond to the last two digits of the six-digit citation identifier (CID) article numbering system used in Proceedings of SPIE. The first four digits reflect the volume number. Base 36 numbering is employed for the last two digits and indicates the order of articles within the volume. Numbers start with 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 0A, 0B…0Z, followed by 10-1Z, 20-2Z, etc.

Andrews, Larry C., 02, 07, 1Q

Arnon, Shlomi, 13, 14

Avramov-Zamurovic, S., 0M

Basu, Santasri, 0L

Basu, Sukanta, 0F, 0W, 0X, 0Y

Baykal, Yahya, 09

Belichki, Sara B., 07, 1Q

Blazej, Josef, 1E

Bos, Jeremy P., 0K

Cauble, Galen D., 10

Charnotskii, Mikhail, 05, 06

Chatterjee, Monish R., 04

Chen, Gang, 0A, 19, 1A

Coffaro, Joseph T., 07, 1Q

Crabbs, R., 02

Currie, Douglas G., 0C

Davis, Christopher C., 0E, 0G, 0O, 11, 12

de Oliveira, Jose Paulo G., 18

deGrassie, John Stephen, 0P, 0Q

Elkabetz, Adiel, 1F

Farwell, Nathan H., 16

Fiorino, Steven T., 0D, 0F, 0L, 0W, 0Y

Fountain, Wayne, 07

Gbur, G., 0M

George, Robert, 0I

Gibson, Kristofor B., 0V

Gladysz, Szymon, 0U

Gökçe, Muhsin C., 09

Gu, Y., 0M

Gudimetla, V. S. Rao, 0K

Guo, Haichao, 1B

Hammel, Stephen M., 0P, 0Q, 0R, 0S, 0V

He, Ping, 0F, 0W, 0Y

Hening, Alexandru, 0I, 0J

Hyde, Milo W., 0L

Kaganovich, Dmitry, 0H

Kamacioglu, Canan, 09

Khizhnyak, Anatoliy I., 0H

Ko, Jonathan, 0E, 0G, 12

Kodet, Jan, 1E

Korobkin, Dmitriy V., 0H

Korotkova, Olga, 0M, 0N, 16

Koudelka, Petr, 1I

Land, Phillip, 15

Lang, Tian, 0A, 1A

Lasher, Mark, 0J

Latal, Jan, 1I

Li, Xiaojun, 1B

Li, Zening, 0A, 19, 1A

Liao, Linchao, 1A

Liner, Andrej, 1I

Linhart, Pavel, 1E

Lovern, Mike, 0J

Mack, A., 0T

Majumdar, Arun K., 15

Malek-Madani, R., 0M

Markov, Vladimir B., 0H

Martinek, Radek, 1I

McCrae, Jack E., 0L

McGirr, Scott, 0I

Mohamed, Fathi H. A., 04

Nelson, C., 0M

Nelson, William, 0G, 0O, 11, 12

Neuner, Burton, III, 17

Nunalee, Christopher G., 0F, 0W, 0Y

Palastro, J. P., 11

Panich, Michael G., 07, 1Q

Pascoguin, B. Melvin, 17

Phillips, Ronald L., 02, 07, 1Q

Prochazka, Ivan, 0C, 1E

Reinhardt, Colin N., 0Q, 0R, 0S

Rosenkrantz, Etai, 13, 14

Rudiger, Joshua J., 0Q

Sadler, Brian M., 1A

Schleijpen, H. M. A., 0T

Seiffer, Dirk, 0U

Shang, She, 1B

Shapiro, Jeffrey H., 08

Siegenthaler, John, 15

Siska, Petr, 1I

Smith, Christopher A., 1Q

Song, Dawei, 1B

Spencer, Mark F., 0L

Sprangle, Phillip A., 0H

Stein, Karin, 0U

Ting, Antonio C., 0H

Tomov, Ivan V., 0H

Tucker, Frank M., 07

Uysal, Murat, 09

van Eijk, Alexander M. J., 0T

van Iersel, M., 0T

Vasinek, Vladimir, 1I

Vitasek, Jan, 1I

Voelz, David G., 0N

Vorontsov, Mikhail A., 0F, 0W, 0Y

Wang, Yao, 0X

Wayne, David T., 0J, 0R, 0S, 10

Wroblewski, Ronald, 0I

Wu, Chensheng, 0E, 0G, 0O, 11, 12

Xiao, Xifeng, 0N

Yitzhaky, Yitzhak, 1F

Zepp, Andreas, 0U

Zuraski, Steven M., 0D

Conference Committee

Program Track Chairs

  • Stephen M. Hammel, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (United States)

  • Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands)

Conference Chairs

  • Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands)

  • Christopher C. Davis, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

  • Stephen M. Hammel, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (United States)

Conference Program Committee

  • Larry C. Andrews, University of Central Florida (United States)

  • Jaime Anguita, Universidad de Los Andes (Chile)

  • Shlomi Arnon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

  • Mikhail S. Belen’kii, Trex Enterprises Corporation (United States)

  • Matthew M. Bold, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (United States)

  • Jeremy P. Bos, Air Force Research Laboratory (United States)

  • Mikhail I. Charnotskii, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States)

  • Gang Chen, University of California, Riverside (United States)

  • Jony Jiang Liu, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (United States)

  • Arun K. Majumdar, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (United States)

  • Vladimir B. Markov, Advanced Systems & Technologies, Inc. (United States)

  • Stuart D. Milner, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

  • Dominic C. O’Brien, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

  • Ronald L. Phillips, Florida Space Institute (United States)

  • William S. Rabinovich, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (United States)

  • Michael C. Roggemann, Michigan Technological University (United States)

  • Karin Stein, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany)

  • Thomas Weyrauch, University of Dayton (United States)

  • Otakar Wilfert, Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)

  • Heba Yuksel, Bogaziçi Üniversitesi (Turkey)

Session Chairs

  • 1 Fundamentals of Turbulence

    • Christopher C. Davis, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

    • Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands)

  • 2 Systems

    • Mikhail I. Charnotskii, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States)

    • Christopher C. Davis, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

  • 3 Adaptive Optics and Simulation

    • Karin Stein, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany)

    • Stephen M. Hammel, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (United States)

  • 4 Beam Reconstruction and Focusing

    • Heba Yuksel, Bogaziçi Üniversitesi (Turkey)

    • Colin Reinhardt, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (United States)

  • 5 Imaging and Non-Gaussian Beams

    • Arun K. Majumdar, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (United States)

    • Christopher C. Davis, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

  • 6 Atmospheric Effects I

    • Jeremy P. Bos, Air Force Research Laboratory (United States)

    • Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands)

  • 7 Atmospheric Effects II

    • Douglas G. Currie, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

    • David T. Wayne, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (United States)

  • 8 Propagation

    • John S. deGrassie, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (United States)

    • Stephen M. Hammel, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (United States)

  • 9 Underwater Communication

    • Gang Chen, University of California, Riverside (United States)

    • David T. Wayne, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (United States)

  • 10 Novel Applications and Designs

    • Christopher C. Davis, University of Maryland, College Park (United States)

    • Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands)

Introduction

This is the third in a series of annual conferences on the combined topics of laser communication and propagation effects through the atmosphere and ocean. There are well-established technologies in free space optical (FSO) communication, yet many challenges remain in obtaining reliable link and network performance in the face of atmospheric conditions—especially turbulence.

Several papers presented at the conference discussed theoretical analysis and simulation of turbulence effects, such as anisotropic and non-Kolmogorov turbulence, and scintillation, especially in conditions of strong turbulence. Many of these papers described variants of phase screen analysis as a way to simulate wave propagation through turbulence. Beyond its effects on FSO, systems turbulence also affects imaging through the atmosphere, and there was an invited paper that described how the atmosphere is the limiting factor in the performance of electro-optic systems of all kinds. A number of papers discussed how meteorological measurements could enable the estimation of turbulence conditions that affect FSO and imaging systems.

The use of powerful tools from numerical weather prediction (NWP) provided an exciting new direction for the assessment of large-scale refractive effects. Several papers described the estimation and simulation of optical turbulence for different atmospheric layers. The capability for NWP to reconstruct three-dimensional optical refractivity was utilized in a fascinating paper describing the contributions of the meteorological and optical environment to the Titanic disaster.

The effect of the atmosphere on directed energy (laser) weapons was the subject of several papers. Paper topics included scintillation measurements in dynamic scenarios, and modeling for both beam effects as well as the detection of laser beams. Measurement research was described, including Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors, and the use of modified plenoptic cameras for distortion characterization.

Several papers discussed the development of ways to improve the focusing of energy on a distant target, either by adaptive optics mitigation of laser beam distortion, or by using phase conjugation of a target illumination laser, or through the exploitation of enhanced back scatter (EBS). A new way for observing EBS in a single camera frame was described. Other high-energy laser effects discussed included plasma formation, filaments, and their applications. A number of papers discussed how different kinds of laser beams, such as the multi-Gaussian Schell beam, Bessel beams, and Airy beams propagate through turbulence, and whether these beams offer advantages over single Gaussian beams.

An invited paper discussed the effects of the atmosphere on millimeter precision lunar ranging and how such observations can provide deep insight into fundamental physics. A second invited paper discussed how multi-spectral modes can provide efficient data transport in terms of bits/photon and spectral efficiency in terms of bits/sec-Hz and how cross-talk in such applications is affected by turbulence. The continuing interest in visible light communication (VLC) using LED illumination sources was discussed in papers describing MIMO techniques, modulation schemes, and retro-reflectors.

Finally, the ‘Oceans’ part of the conference title was well represented, with papers concentrating on underwater communications, examining the best wavelengths to use in different water conditions, and effects at the air-water interface. The expansion of topics presented at the conference included non-line-of-sight UV communications, light propagation through ship exhaust plumes, and time transfer using picosecond lasers at the single photon level.

Alexander M. J. van Eijk

Christopher C. Davis

Stephen M. Hammel

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"Front Matter: Volume 9224", Proc. SPIE 9224, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans III, 922401 (21 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2086634
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KEYWORDS
Atmospheric propagation

Atmospheric optics

Atmospheric modeling

Telecommunications

Imaging systems

Turbulence

Adaptive optics

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