Laser speckle reduction due to spatial and angular diversity introduced by fast scanning micromirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3297-3304

  Akram, M Nadeem ^a   Tong, Zhaomin ^a   Ouyang, Guangmin ^a   Chen, Xuyuan ^a   Kartashov, Vladimir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b PoLight AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS;

ANGULAR DIVERSITY; FAST SCANNING; IMAGING GEOMETRY; INTEGRATION TIME; LASER ILLUMINATION; SPECKLE CONTRASTS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING;

SPECKLE;

EID: 77955944476     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.003297     Document Type: Article

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