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Frontiers in Optics

Interferometry in a random medium with two coincident input beams

Z. Wang, Andrew M. Weiner, Kevin J. Webb

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

A two-beam random interferometer is demonstrated to have a second order speckle intensity frequency correlation with a ripple due to the path-length difference between the input beams and an envelope governed by the scattering medium.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2006.fthj3

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