Study of active millimeter-wave image speckle reduction by Hadamard phase pattern illumination

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 312-317

  Koers, Gaetan ^a   Ocket, Ilja ^b   Feng, Qi ^b   Tavakol, Vahid ^b   Jäger, Irina ^a   Nauwelaers, Bart ^b   Stiens, Johan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER APPLICATIONS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; SPECKLE;

HADAMARD PHASE PATTERN ILLUMINATION; SPECKLE CONTRAST REDUCTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION EFFICIENCY;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 41549095360     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.000312     Document Type: Article

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