Gaussian phase autocorrelation as an accurate compensator for FFT-based atmospheric phase screen simulations [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06060


Accurately simulating the atmospheric turbulence behaviour is always challenging. The well-known FFT based method falls short in correctly predicting both the low and high frequency behaviours. Sub-harmonic compensation aids in low-frequency correction but does not solve the problem for all screen size to outer scale parameter ratios (G/$L_0$). FFT-based simulation gives accurate result only for relatively large screen size to outer scale parameter ratio (G/$L_0$). In this work, we have introduced a Gaussian phase autocorrelation matrix to compensate for any sort of residual errors after applying for a modified subharmonics compensation. With this, we have solved problems such as under sampling at the high-frequency range, unequal sampling/weights for subharmonics addition at low-frequency range and the patch normalization factor. Our approach reduces the maximum error in phase structure-function in the simulation with respect to theoretical prediction to within 1.8\%, G/$L_0$ = 1/1000.

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S. Chhabra, J. Paul, A. Ramaprakash, et. al.
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Comments: SPIE conference proceedings 2020. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2106.01002