title: Correlation distance of dynamic speckles.
abstract: The translational and boiling motions of dynamic speckles produced in the Fresnel diffraction field under illumination of a Gaussian beam are investigated in detail. The speckle motion is analyzed from the space-time cross-correlation function of speckle intensity fluctuations detected at the two points in the receiving plane. The correlation distance of time-varying speckles is compared with the translation distance of the spatial speckle pattern. The optical conditions for the translational and boiling motions of dynamic speckles are examined and expressed in a diagram. The characteristics for the correlation distance of time-varying speckle intensity fluctuations are finally verified by several experiments.
authors.affiliation: Hokkaido University, Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Takai
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authors.lastname: Iwai
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authors.lastname: Asakura