Laser speckle reduction by multimode optical fiber bundle with combined temporal, spatial, and angular diversity

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1894-1904

  Mehta, Dalip Singh ^a   Naik, Dinesh N ^b   Singh, Rakesh Kumar ^c   Takeda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE;

ANGULAR DIVERSITY; LASER ILLUMINATION; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; OPTICAL FIBER BUNDLE; SPECKLE CONTRASTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 84860153633     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001894     Document Type: Article

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