Connection between the characteristics of the signal of a shadow instrument and the spectrum of the turbulence

The shadow method is one of the most widely used methods for investigating turbulence [1, 2]. Using a shadow instrument with photoelectric recording, there exists, in principal, the possibility of finding the statistical characteristics of the turbulence from the statistical characteristics of the random signal taken from the instrument. In the present work, an investigation is made of the connection between the mean value and the scattering of the signal of a shadow instrument and the energy spectrum of optical inhomogeneities in the medium.