Speckle Phenomena in Optics provides a comprehensive discussion of the statistical
properties of speckle, as well as detailed coverage of its role in applications. Some of the …

Laser Speckle and Applications in Optics focuses on developments in laser speckle
techniques, with emphasis on the experimental aspect of phenomena and on applications in …

Since the invention of the laser there has been a growing interest in the random speckle
pattern that is generated when light from this highly coherent source is scattered by a rough …

Since speckle plays an important role in many physical phenomena, it is essential to fully
understand its statistical properties. Starting from the basic idea of a random walk in the …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the nature of the speckle pattern and defines
some of its basic characteristics. The speckle effect in optics is the generation of a random …

The two previously reported calculations of the amplitude distribution of speckles in optical
coherence tomography, each based on a different mathematical formulation, yield different …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the statistics of speckle patterns. The statistical
properties of a speckle pattern depend, in general, on both the coherence of the incident …

In coherent illumination, objects with roughness of the order of a wavelength cause speckle
to appear in their images as formed by imaging systems which cannot resolve the …

A speckle pattern formed in polarized monochromatic light may be regarded as resulting
from a classical random walk in the complex plane. The resulting irradiance fluctuations …

In this section we shall study speckle patterns produced by partially coherent light. Most
published work considers the effects of spatial coherence separately from the effects of …