Compensation of aberration distortions of a laser beam wavefront in the bistatic location scheme

The possibility of compensating for aberration distortions in the wavefront of a pulse laser beam by use of the backscatter signal in the atmosphere in the bistatic location scheme is studied numerically. It is shown that, as in the case of the monostatic location scheme, using the bistatic scheme permits one, under certain conditions, to significantly compensate for aberrations using a flexible mirror and apply the algorithm of backscatter signal maximization. An increase in the aperture of the receiving telescope makes it possible to considerably increase the signal-to-noise ratio and, owing to this, compensate for aberrations at a lesser energy of the probing pulse.