Sinusoidal rotating grating for speckle reduction in laser projectors: Feasibility study

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Egge, Sigbjørn Vindenes ^a   Akram, M Nadeem ^b   Kartashov, Vladimir ^c   Welde, Kristine ^a   Tong, Zhaomin ^b   Österberg, Ulf ^a   Astrid Aksnes, ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^c PoLight AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coherence; Diffraction; Imaging; Laser applications; Projection systems; Speckle

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE IMAGE; DISCRETE ROTATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; LASER DISPLAY; LASER PROJECTORS; PHASE GRATING; SINUSOIDAL GRATING; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SPECKLE PATTERNS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT MODULATORS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; ROTATION;

SPECKLE;

EID: 81355132468     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3613937     Document Type: Article

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