Cai, YangjianKorotkova, OlgaEyyuboğlu, Halil T.Baykal, Yahya2016-04-122016-04-122008Cai, Y., Korotkova, O., Eyyuboğlu,H.T., Baykal, Y. (2008). Active laser radar systems with stochastic electromagnetic beams in turbulent atmosphere. Optics Express, 16(20), 15834-15846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.0158341094-4087http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/896Propagation of stochastic electromagnetic beams through paraxial ABCD optical systems operating through turbulent atmosphere is investigated with the help of the ABCD matrices and the generalized Huygens-Fresnel integral. In particular, the analytic formula is derived for the cross-spectral density matrix of an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model (EGSM) beam. We applied our analysis for the ABCD system with a single lens located on the propagation path, representing, in a particular case, the unfolded double-pass propagation scenario of active laser radar. Through a number of numerical examples we investigated the effect of local turbulence strength and lens' parameters on spectral, coherence and polarization properties of the EGSM beameninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAtmospheric PropagationAtmospheric TurbulenceCoherencePolarizationArticle1620158341584610.1364/OE.16.015834