Which physical effect diminishes fringes when imaging through turbulence with a laser?

💡 Explanation

Turbulence causes wavefront distortion because it induces random fluctuations in refractive index along the path, and wavefront distortion causes scintillation; therefore fringe contrast suffers, rather than coherence changes or nonlinear focusing inducing those aberrations.

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