Illumination coherence effects in laserspeckle imaging: Modeling and experimental demonstration

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1781-1788

  Voelz, David G ^a   Bush, Keith A ^b   Idell, Paul S ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Logicon RDA   (Mexico)

^c Rockwell International   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent imaging; Laser speckle; Partial coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010927642     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001781     Document Type: Article

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