Laser speckle reduction via colloidal-dispersion-filled projection screens

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3742-3749

  Riechert, Falko ^a   Bastian, Georg ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b TRIER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DISPERSIONS; FORWARD SCATTERING; PROJECTION SCREENS;

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; INTEGRATION TIME; LASER PROJECTION SYSTEM; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST; SPECKLE CONTRAST VALUE; SPECKLE CONTRASTS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; TEMPORAL AVERAGING;

SPECKLE;

EID: 67749084354     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003742     Document Type: Article

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