Statistics of Speckle Patterns Produced by a Rough Metal Surface
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics
- Vol. 24 (9) , 979-987
- https://doi.org/10.1080/713819666
Abstract
The irradiance in the speckle pattern produced by a rough metal surface illuminated by polarized laser light can be regarded as the sum of the irradiances of two component speckle patterns produced by scattered light polarized in two orthogonal directions. A theoretical analysis is presented which leads to useful approximations for the cross-correlation functions of the component speckle fields both in the far field and in an image of the surface. These results are used to derive the statistics of such speckle patterns.Keywords
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