Description
Book SynopsisThe speckle phenomenon is ubiquitous, occurring in all regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as in both ultrasound and synthetic-aperture-radar imaging. Speckle occurs whenever radiation is reflected from a surface that is rough on the scale of a wavelength or is passed through a diffusing surface that introduces random path-length delays on the scale of a wavelength. This book is devoted to simulation of speckle phenomena using the software package Python. Various techniques for simulating speckle are discussed. Simulation topics include first-order amplitude and intensity statistics, speckle phenomena in both imaging and free-space propagation, speckle at low light levels, polarization speckle, phase vortices in speckle, and speckle metrology methods.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- First-Order Statistics of Speckle Amplitude
- First-Order Statistics of Speckle Intensity
- Simulation of Speckle in Optical Imaging
- Simulation of Speckle in Free-Space Propagation
- Speckle at Low Light Levels
- Speckle Phase Vortices
- Polarization Speckle
- Speckle Simulation for Metrology
