Suppression of dynamic laser speckle signals in multimode fibers of various lengths

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2059-2065

  Petoukhova, Anna L ^a   Cleven, Ester ^a   De Mul, Frits F M ^a   Steenbergen, Wiendelt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECKLE; TURBIDITY;

DYNAMIC LASER SPECKLE SIGNAL; FIBER COUPLING EFFECT; FIBER LENGTH EFFECT; STEP-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBER;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 1942423089     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002059     Document Type: Article

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