Effects of Medium Characteristics on Laser RCS of Airplane with E-Wave Polarization

الملخص EN

Plane wave incidence should be postulated to have an authentic targetdetection.

Practically, the plane wave is incapable usually of keeping its power in the farfield especially when propagating through an inhomogeneous medium.

Consequently,we assume an incident beam wave with a finite width around the target.

In this work,we calculate numerically a laser radar cross section (LRCS) of conducting targets havingsmooth cross sections with inflection points such as airplane in random media.

Effectsof fluctuations intensity of random media on the LRCS performance are studied in thispaper.

E-wave polarization (E-wave incidence) is considered while the mean target sizeis approximately twice the wavelength.