菲涅耳深区散斑强度统计特性及演化

利用直透光波和高斯散斑场的叠加理论和基尔霍夫近似研究了菲涅耳深区散斑的构成,给出了菲涅耳深区散斑场及其强度概率密度和对比度的表达式.利用原子力显微镜测量的随机散射表面高度分布数据模拟菲涅耳深区不同散射距离处散斑,并计算绘出其强度概率密度和对比度曲线.理论与模拟相结合研究这两个统计函数的特征和直透光强所占比例的影响,以及它们随散射距离的演化规律.     

弱散射体产生的菲涅耳极深区散斑场相位涡旋演化的实验研究

实验提取了弱散射体产生的菲涅耳极深区的散斑场.发现当散射距离一定时,弱散射体光场的相位分布特征随散射体的粗糙度的变化而变化;对于某一弱散射体,相位分布特征随散射距离的变化而变化;当弱散射体的粗糙度大到一定程度时,才产生相位涡旋现象;散射体表面上存在相位涡旋;弱散射体产生的相位涡旋的密度随散射屏粗糙度的增大而增大,还随散射距离的增大而增大.研究结果对于认识弱散射体的相位及相位涡旋分布特征随粗糙度和散射距离的演化具有重要意义,而且对于认识散斑场随散射距离的演化有一定的帮助.     

菲涅耳衍射区和夫琅和费衍射区的动态部分相干光散斑场特性

研究了菲涅耳衍射区和夫琅和费衍射区动态部分相干光散斑的特性.利用部分相干光互强度传播的理论，得出了在部分相干光照明时，由运动散射体产生的动态散斑光强时空交叉的自相关函数的一般形式，并由此得出了散斑沸腾和平移的一般规律.通过适当选择光源和调整光路参数，在实验上得到了菲涅耳和夫琅和费衍射区的部分相干光散斑，对夫琅和费面上的动态部分相干光散斑的平移和沸腾现象进行了定性研究；采用光子计数及数据自动采集的方法，对部分相干光散斑随时间的演化及动态部分相干光散斑的沸腾进行了定量测量.这些实验结果与理论结果相符合. 关键词： 部分相干光动态散斑 时空交叉相关函数 沸腾     

The autocorrelation of speckles in deep Fresnel diffraction region and characterizations of random self-affine fractal surfaces

This paper studies the correlation properties of the speckles in the deep Fresnel diffraction region produced by the scattering of rough self-affine fractal surfaces. The autocorrelation function of the speckle intensities is formulated by the combination of the light scattering theory of Kirchhoff approximation and the principles of speckle statistics. We propose a method for extracting the three surface parameters, i.e. the roughness w, the lateral correlation length ξ and the roughness exponent α, from the autocorrelation functions of speckles. This method is verified by simulating the speckle intensities and calculating the speckle autocorrelation function. We also find the phenomenon that for rough surfaces with α= 1, the structure of the speckles resembles that of the surface heights, which results from the effect of the peak and the valley parts of the surface, acting as micro-lenses converging and diverging the light waves.     

Size-dependent reactivity of aluminum cluster cations toward water molecules

Using the autocorrelation of speckles in the deep Fresnel region is a novel approach to measuring surface parameters of a rough surface. In this letter, we construct a scanning system using a fibre-optic probe for detecting the speckle field with excellent resolution. By relating the autocorrelation function of the speckle intensity and the surface height with the Kirchhoff approximation theory, we realise the measurement of the surface parameters. Three parameters, i.e. the roughness w, the lateral correlation length ξ and roughness exponent α are extracted. We measure two sample surfaces in the experiment, and the results are consistent with those measured by atomic force microscope (AFM).     

Speckle characteristics of simulated deep Fresnel region under shadowing effect

After the three-dimensional self-affine fractal random surface simulation, we use the optical scattering theory to calculate the deep Fresnel region speckle(DFRS) under consideration of the more strict shadowing effect. The evolution of DFRS with the scattering distance and the intensity probability distribution are studied. It is found that the morphology of the scatterer has an antisymmetric relationship with the intensity distribution of DFRS, and the effect of micro-lenses on the scattering surface causes the intensity probability distribution of DFRS to deviate from the Gaussian speckle in the high light intensity area.     

The optical near-field speckles and their first order statistics on the basis of the integral equations of electromagnetic field

Speckle fields are the random light wave distributions produced when the light fields are scattered from random surfaces or a random medium. They appear in many optical phenomena that are related to light propagations[1,2] and have found wide appli-cations in a variety of scientific and technical fields. The examples of the recent impor-tant applications of speckles include the analysis of the movement of the granules[3], the three-dimensional imaging for the microstructures of metal nanocryst…     

Spacetime correlation functions of dynamic speckles produced by a series of moving phase screens

Spacetime correlation functions of the time-varying speckle intensity have been evaluated for the case where speckle patterns are produced in the Fresnel diffraction region by light propagating through a series of moving random-phase screens. The correlation functions are given by a set of recursion formulae which are useful for numerical computations. Three statistical quantities relating to the motion of speckle patterns are derived to examine the relationship between the velocity distribution of the phase screens and the temporal behaviour of resultant speckle patterns. It is found that the velocity differences between the phase screens have a strong effect on both the decorrelation of speckle patterns and the fluctuating speed of the speckle intensity.     

Dynamic laser speckles and their application to velocity measurements of the diffuse object

In connection with the parameters of the optical configuration used to produce speckles and under illumination of a Gaussian beam over a moving diffuse object, this paper discusses the statistical properties of dynamic speckles produced in the diffraction and image fields by the diffuse object moving in a plane with constant velocity. Especially, the space-time correlation function of the dynamic speckle intensity is examined in detail. Two typical speckle motions of translation and boiling are interpreted for various optical configurations in the diffraction and image fields. As one of the interesting applications of dynamic speckles to metrology, various methods for velocity measurements of the diffuse object are introduced.     

强散射体产生的像面散斑对比度与随机表面及成像系统关系的研究

在对4f光学成像系统中强散射体形成的像面散斑的统计特性的研究中, 首先通过散斑场光波复振幅的一般形式和双重指数函数近似求出散斑光强的系综平均, 然后利用散斑场光波复振幅的实部和虚部的旋转变换法求出散斑光强的方差, 最后得出了散斑对比度与随机表面统计参量和系统参量的直接表达式. 本结果与现有文献中包含随机表面相关面积或散射粒子数目的隐含表达式相比具有明显的改进, 并对标定随机表面的散斑对比度法具有重要意义. 关键词： 随机表面 像面散斑 对比度     

Toward Defeating Diffraction and Randomness for Laser Beam Propagation in Turbulent Atmosphere

A large distance propagation in turbulent atmosphere results in disintegration of laser beam into speckles. We find that the most intense speckle approximately preserves both the Gaussian shape and the diameter of the initial collimated beam while loosing energy during propagation. One per 1000 of atmospheric realizations produces at 7 km distance an intense speckle above 28% of the initial power. Such optimal realizations create effective extended lenses focusing the intense speckle beyond the diffraction limit of vacuum propagation. Atmospheric realizations change every several milliseconds. We propose to use intense speckles to greatly increase the time-averaged power delivery to the target plane by triggering the pulsed laser operations only at times of optimal realizations. Resulting power delivery and laser irradiance at the intense speckles well exceeds both intensity of diffraction-limited beam and intensity averaged over typical realizations.     

Spacetime correlation functions of dynamic speckles produced by a series of moving phase screens

Abstract

Spacetime correlation functions of the time-varying speckle intensity have been evaluated for the case where speckle patterns are produced in the Fresnel diffraction region by light propagating through a series of moving random-phase screens. The correlation functions are given by a set of recursion formulae which are useful for numerical computations. Three statistical quantities relating to the motion of speckle patterns are derived to examine the relationship between the velocity distribution of the phase screens and the temporal behaviour of resultant speckle patterns. It is found that the velocity differences between the phase screens have a strong effect on both the decorrelation of speckle patterns and the fluctuating speed of the speckle intensity.     

Specific features of speckle structure formed by dispersed laser beams

The geometry of statistical average of intensity speckles formed by a broadband dispersed laser beam spatially coherent in initial plane z = 0 is studied theoretically. A computer simulation was used to obtain two-dimensional distributions of random intensity that provide a clear picture of the transformations experienced by the speckle structure upon laser beam propagation. Correlation functions and power spectra of random intensity are calculated in order to determine the characteristic size and shape of speckles as a function of longitudinal coordinate z, the width and shape of the frequency spectrum, and the degree of dispersion of the light beam. Analytical expressions that describe an increase in the speckle size along the beam axis and in the direction of beam dispersion as a function of distance from the initial plane are obtained. The ultimate (at z → ∞) width of speckles in the direction of beam dispersion is calculated.     

Texture analysis of speckles due to random Koch fractals by lacunarity

We analysed the textures of speckles produced from random Koch fractals to quantitatively confirm the existence of speckle clustering which we investigated in a previous paper. The texture analysis involved using the lacunarity of these speckles, which is defined as fluctuations of the intensity integrated within a box, and comparing this quantity with that for ordinary fully-developed speckles. The lacunarity of clustered speckles was found to be greater than that of ordinary speckles throughout the whole range of the size of the box under examination, indicating the existence of long correlation tails in speckles. We also discuss the physical origin of these long correlation tails.     

Computer-generated holograms for producing fractal speckles

When a diffuser is illuminated by the coherent light with a negative power-law distribution, fractal speckles are produced in the far-field diffraction region. Fractal speckles have extremely long spatial correlation functions of the intensity distributions in comparison with ordinary speckles, which implies that they may extend measurement ranges in various metrological applications based on the spatial correlation of speckles. To have fractal speckles with satisfactory statistical properties, it is required to produce a power-law illumination profile with high quality. In this paper, we report on the computer-generated holograms for producing power-law intensities on the basis of the method of stationary phase, with the error-reduction algorithm combined with to suppress strong ringing of the intensity.     

Error analysis for polychromatic speckle contrast measurements

Revival of interest in speckle technologies raises a curial question on the accuracy calculation of speckle measurements. In particular, the accuracy calculation of speckle contrast, an important metrics of a stochastic process, is quite different from the accuracy calculation of a typical intensity measurement. Speckle contrast depends more on stochastic characteristics of a process rather than on hardware characteristics. In this article, we consider errors introduced by the limited number of available speckle and by intensity saturation for monochromatic and polychromatic speckles. Equations for these types of errors were derived. Particularly, we show that the error due to limited number of speckles is inversely proportional to the square root of the speckle number, in the similar way as the average intensity error. For the error due to limited dynamic range of a recording device, the truncation effect increases the error as the mean intensity increased. Monochromatic speckles are more sensitive to such truncation than polychromatic speckles. We report the optimal mean intensity in terms of the pixel depth of a recording device and the total number of speckle recorded. In addition, a recommendation to minimize the saturation error for a typical camera is included.     

Extremal Properties for Weakly Correlated Random Variables Arising in Speckle Patterns

Extremal properties of the statistics of speckle pattern are studied in the context of so-called “optically smoothed” light beams of laser-matter interaction. It is shown that the asymptotic statistics of the highest intensity in a speckle pattern, which can be associated with the most intense speckles, follows a Gumbel law, which is in agreement with numerical simulations. It is found that the probability density function of the most intense speckle peaks around the value corresponding to the logarithm of the number of speckles in the considered volume times the average intensity value of the speckle pattern. This result is of great interest for nonlinear processes, like instabilities, where extreme speckles play an important role.     

Near-field speckles produced by random self-affine surfaces and their contrast transitions

By use of a numerical calculation based on Green's integral equation, we study the near-field speckles produced by the random self-affine fractal surfaces of a dielectric medium. The speckle intensities evolve considerably in the near-field region, and the local fluctuations in them disappear before they have traversed the distance of a wavelength. The transition of the speckle contrast either on the surface or in the near field and in the neighborhood non-near-field regions depends on lateral correlation length xi and roughness exponent alpha of the random surfaces.     

Scaling reduction of the contrast of fractal speckles detected with a finite aperture

It is known that speckle patterns with fractal properties, called fractal speckles, are produced by illuminating a diffuser with the coherent light having the intensity distribution obeying a negative power law. One of key properties of fractal speckles is the spatial correlation function obeying a negative power law, which implies that such speckles have scaling properties. In detecting fractal speckles, the effect of the spatial integration is inevitable in most cases since they have speckle grains of various scales including very fine ones. To evaluate this effect, in this paper, the contrast of spatially integrated intensity distributions is investigated theoretically and experimentally for fractal speckles. The results show that the contrast reduction with the size of the detector aperture obeys a negative power function related with the exponent of the intensity correlation coefficient of fractal speckles.     

零相关位相板准远场应用的数值研究

对零相关位相板匀滑准远场散斑的特性进行了数值模拟,并与使用随机位相板(配合二单元 偏振控制板)的情形进行了比较.结果表明,尽管零相关位相板是针对入射场为平面波和作为 远场应用而设计的,但在准远场应用中,当离焦距离不超过0002355λf²/d2,入射场的振幅随机起伏不超过10%和位相随机起伏不超过λ/2０的情况下,其 散斑的光强起伏仍明显低于采用随机位相板的情形.因而,零相关位相板在准远场应用中仍 能有效地匀滑散斑. 关键词： 零相关位相板 准远场散斑匀滑 激光聚变