Speckle suppression with a rotating light pipe

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Mingjie ^a   Lu, Zukang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

energy preservation; laser projection; light pipe; polarization maintaining; speckle suppression

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ENERGY LOSS; EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS; LASER PROJECTION; LIGHT PIPE; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; ROUGH SURFACES; SPECKLE PATTERNS; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); ENERGY DISSIPATION; IMAGE QUALITY; POLARIZATION; ROTATION;

SPECKLE;

EID: 81355154171     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3314310     Document Type: Article

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