Low-speckle laser projection with a broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser in the nonmodal emission regime

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 792-798

  Riechert, Falko ^a   Craggs, Gordon ^b   Meuret, Youri ^b   Van Giel, Bart ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Verschaffelt, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; SPECKLE;

CURRENT PULSE; ILLUMINATION SOURCES; LASER PROJECTION; MOVING COMPONENTS; POLARIZATION SCRAMBLING; SPECKLE CONTRAST VALUE; SPECKLE CONTRASTS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 61449105844     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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