Laser Speckle and Applications in Optics

PrefaceChapter I Speckle in the Image of an Object Illuminated with Laser Light 1.1 Image of a Point Source. Fourier Transforms 1.2 The Image of a Point Source in the Presence of a Slight Defect of Focus 1.3 The Images of Two Monochromatic Point Sources 1.4 The Images of a Large Number of Point Sources Distributed at Random 1.5 The Spectrum of a Large Number of Coherent Point Sources 1.6 The Spectrum of a Large Number of Coherent Point Sources Forming Identical Groups Having the Same Orientation and Distributed at Random 1.7 Speckle in the Image of an Object Illuminated with a Laser 1.8 Changing the Structure of a Speckle by Displacing the Plane of Focus 1.9 The Speckle Patterns Produced in the Image of a Diffuse Object under a Change of Wavelength 1.10 White-Light SpeckleChapter II Speckle Produced at a Finite Distance by a Diffusing Object Illuminated by a Laser 2.1 Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction in Three Dimensions 2.2 Speckle Produced at a Finite Distance by a Diffuse Object 2.3 Speckle Produced by a Laterally Displaced Diffusing Object 2.4 Speckle Produced by a Diffuse Object When the Orientation of the Incident Light Beam is Changed 2.5 Speckle Produced by a Diffuse Object under an Axial Translation of the Plane of Observation or of the Object 2.6 Speckle Produced by a Diffuse Object under a Change of Wavelength 2.7 Speckle Produced by a Diffuse Object When the Wavelength and the Position of the Plane of Observation Are Changed 2.8 Speckle Produced by a Diffuse Object Itself Illuminated with Another Speckle PatternChapter III Interference with Scattered Light 3.1 Historical Background 3.2 Principles of Interference with Scattered Light 3.3 Interference with Two Identical Diffusers 3.4 The Burch Interferometer 3.5 Interference Patterns Obtained from Two Laterally Shifted Diffusers 3.6 Interference Patterns Obtained from Two Different Axially Shifted DiffusersChapter IV Interference Patterns Produced by Photographic Superposition of Laterally Shifted Speckle Patterns 4.1 Amplitude Transmitted by a Photographic Plate after Development 4.2 The Fundamental Experiment of Burch and Tokarski 4.3 The Superposition of a Series of Successive Exposures on the Same Holographic Plate 4.4 Simultaneous Recordings with Birefringent Plates 4.5 Recording with a Continuous Displacement of the Photographic Plate 4.6 Recordings Obtained When the Orientation of the Incident Beam is Changed 4.7 Recordings Made with Polarized Light 4.8 Recordings Obtained When the Orientation of the Diffuse Object is Changed 4.9 Recordings Made with More Than One WavelengthChapter V Interference Patterns Produced by Photographic Superposition of Axially Shifted Speckle Patterns 5.1 Circular Interference Fringes Produced by Two Successive Recordings on the Same Photographic Plate 5.2 A Change of Wavelength between the Two Exposures 5.3 A Change of Wavelength and a Displacement of the Photographic Plate between Exposures 5.4 Circular Interference Fringes Produced by Two Successive Recordings on the Same Photographic Plate of the Image of a Diffuse Object 5.5 Circular Interference Fringes Obtained with a Single Exposure by Means of an Amplitude Diffuser 5.6 Circular Interference Fringes Obtained with More Than One Exposure When the Photographic Plate is Axially Translated between Each Exposure 5.7 Hyperbolic or Elliptical FringesChapter VI Optical Processing of Images Modulated by Speckle 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Principle of a Technique to Extract the Difference between Two Images 6.3 The Light Distribution in the Image Plane 6.4 Improving the Profile of the Fringes and the Quality of the Images 6.5 Image Coding and Decoding 6.6 Image Multiplexing by Superposition of Laterally Shifted Speckle Patterns 6.