Abstract
We report measurements of the statistics of intensity scintillations of 10.6 μm CO2 radiation scattered by a two-dimensional fractal phase screen. The surface profile of the phase screen is measured and shown to have a Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension of approximately 1.4. Measurements of the on-axis intensity fluctuations as a function of illuminated spot size in both the Fresnel and Fraunhofer region are presented. This fractal scatterer does not produce the high contrast values found in speckle patterns of smoothlyvarying surfaces. Both direct and heterodyne detection results are reported. Measurements of the average intensity as a function of angle are also presented, and illustrate the failure of theoretical models which assume a Gaussian phase autocorrelation function.
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