Speckle Phenomena in Optics: Theory and Applications
V.^Z)iNf^ odNHyJS0 Joseph W. Goodman
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v!77dj 6I 1 Origins and Manifestations of Speckle 1
M&~cU{9c 1.1 General Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0o&B 7N 1.2 Intuitive Explanation of the Cause of Speckle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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{ 1.3 Some Mathematical Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
32Jl|@8,g 2 Random Phasor Sums 7
(Q~(t 2.1 First and Second Moments of the Real and Imaginary Parts of the Resultant Phasor . . . . . 8
/Vy,6:$H3 2.2 Random Walk with a Large Number of Independent Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
oES4X{, 2.3 Random Phasor Sum Plus a Known Phasor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2X!!RS>qg 2.4 Sums of Random Phasor Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
y~/i{a;1y 2.5 Random Phasor Sums with a Finite Number of Equal-Length Components . . . . . . . . . 16
"?SR+;Y:q 2.6 Random Phasor Sums with a Nonuniform Distribution of Phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
fOkB|E] 3 First-Order Statistical Properties of Optical Speckle 23
e=Teq~K 3.1 Definition of Intensity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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3.2 First-Order Statistics of the Intensity and Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
vQhi2J' 3.2.1 Large Number of Random Phasors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TB(!*t 3.2.2 Constant Phasor plus a Random Phasor Sum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
m0_B[dw 3.2.3 Finite Number of Equal-Length Phasors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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l' 3.3 Sums of Speckle Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
9i*Xd$ G 3.3.1 Sums on an Amplitude Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
71inHg 3.3.2 Sum of Two Independent Speckle Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
EGIwqci: 3.3.3 Sum of N Independent Speckle Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4N{5i) 3.3.4 Sums of Correlated Speckle Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
ruTj#tWSo 3.4 Partially Polarized Speckle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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