Speckle reduction in coherent information processing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 765-781

  Iwai, Toshiaki ^a   Asakura, Toshimitsu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HOLOGRAMS; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

COHERENCE THEORY; COHERENT INFORMATION PROCESSING; ECHOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION PROCESSES; LASER MICROSCOPY; SPECKLE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE; SPECKLE STATISTICS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 0030151041     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.488745     Document Type: Article

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