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% Computes optical background noise for various sources. Available sources are Solar, Lunar, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Sunlit clouds, sunlit snow and ice, starfield. The last four are per steradian so you must multiply times the field-of-view. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form: [i, u] = OpticalBackgroundNoise( s, wavelength ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Inputs ------ s {:} Sources wavelength (1,1) Wavelength [ .53 .85 1.06 1.3 1.5] micrometer ------- Outputs ------- i (:) Irradiance or radiance u (:) Corresponding units -------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: Lambert, S. G. and W. L. Casey (1995.) Laser Communications in Space. Artech, Boston. p. 155. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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