Scaling reduction of the contrast of fractal speckles detected with a finite aperture |
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Authors: | Hideki Funamizu |
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Affiliation: | Faculty of Engineering, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 064-0926, Japan |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Fractal speckle Spatial intensity integration Scaling property Contrast |
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