Path: Link/Optical
% 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.
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Form:
[i, u] = OpticalBackgroundNoise( s, wavelength )
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Inputs
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s {:} Sources
wavelength (1,1) Wavelength [ .53 .85 1.06 1.3 1.5] micrometer
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Outputs
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i (:) Irradiance or radiance
u (:) Corresponding units
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References: Lambert, S. G. and W. L. Casey (1995.) Laser
Communications in Space. Artech, Boston. p. 155.
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Common: General/StringMatch
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