PHYSICAL MODELING OF DIRECTIONAL ENERGY-TRANSPORT OF LASER-RADIATION

This paper presents a technique for modeling extended (tens of kilomet ers or more in length) optically homogeneous paths under laboratory co nditions and gives the results of modeling experiments on the determin ation of the energy-exchange efficiency between distant radiating aper tures, using a phase-conjugation-self-aiming algorithm. It is shown to be possible to optimize the energy-exchange process at the expense of the appearance of diffraction effects.