The effect of scintillation on turbulence induced centroid anisoplanatism is discussed. It is shown that this effect has negligible impact on the resulting Strehl ratio for D/r sub o or = 100, where D is the optics aperture diameter and r sub o is the turbulence induced lateral coherence length. Keywords: Adaptive optics; Amplitude effects on centroid anisoplanatism; Anisoplanatism; Beam control; and Turbulence Induced Optical Phase Distortion.
