Speckle with a finite number of steps

• Published in: Applied optics (2004) Vol. 47; no. 4; p. A111
• Main Author: Goodman, Joseph W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2008

The statistical properties of classical, fully developed speckle must be modified when the speckle is generated by a random walk with a finite number of steps. It is shown that for such speckle, the standard negative-exponential probability density function for speckle intensity often overestimates...