The Reflective Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator (RATS) in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Beam Control Laboratory is used to impart realistic distortions to a propagating wavefront for testing in the advancement of adaptive optical technologies. Here RATS is being used to simulate turbulence conditions over which the Small Mobile Atmospheric Sensing Hartmann (SMASH) system has typically operated. An optical clone of the SMASH system installed on the optical bench behind RATS measures the imparted optical disturbance and makes an estimate of the turbulence profile. The results are compared with the profile calculated based on the configuration of the RATS system.
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