David L. Fried

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David L. Fried is a scientist, best known for his contributions to optics. Fried described what has come to be known as Fried's seeing diameter, or r0 (usually pronounced r-naught). The seeing diameter is effectively a limiting aperture due to atmospheric turbulence, and is found either empirically or statistically. The seeing diameter limits optical resolution. Note that it is a diameter, not a radius, even though r is used as the variable.

Typical values for Fried's seeing diameter in the visible spectrum may range from less than 1 cm (you can detect turbulence with your eye) to 20 cm on Mt. Haleakala.

[edit] Honors

1993 - David L. Fried, Optical Sciences Company, SPIE Technology Achievement Award.[1]

[edit] References

Fried, D. L. (1966) "Optical resolution through a randomly inhomogeneous medium for very long and very short exposures", J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 56:1372-9 [2]
Fried, D. L. (1965) "Statistics of a Geometric Representation of Wavefront Distortion", J. Opt. Soc. Amer., 55:1427-1435.