Which risk increases when adaptive optics fail during propagation through atmospheric turbulence?

💡 Explanation

Adaptive optics correct distortions via wavefront manipulation; when they fail, imperfect correction causes increased beam divergence due to residual phase distortions. Therefore, the beam does diverge, rather than maintaining coherence because of lack of phase compensation.

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