Versatile method for achieving 1% speckle contrast in large-venue laser projection displays using a stationary multimode optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11288-11315

  Manni, Jeffrey G ^a   Goodman, Joseph W ^b  

^a JGM Associates Inc   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

HIGH-POWER; ILLUMINATION LIGHT; LASER PROJECTION DISPLAYS; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; VERSATILE METHODS; VISIBLE LASER DIODES; VISIBLE LASERS; WAVELENGTH DIVERSITY;

SPECKLE;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASER; LIGHT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84861120087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011288     Document Type: Article

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