Controlling speckle using lenses and free space.
The correlation properties of speckle fields are studied for general paraxial systems. The previous studies on lateral and longitudinal speckle size for the case of free-space propagation (Fresnel transform) are generalized to the case of the linear canonical transform. These results have implications for the control of speckle size, through appropriate design of optical systems, with particular relevance for speckle interferometry.
Institut für Photonik &Zentrum für Mikro- und Nanostrukturen, Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
Damien P
DP
Kelly
Jennifer E
JE
Ward
Unnikrishnan
U
Gopinathan
John T
JT
Sheridan