Research Institute of Applied Electricity, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Abstract:
This paper proposes a new velocity measuring method for a moving diffuse object on the basis of the autocorrelation of time-differentiated speckle intensity fluctuations. The theoretical background and experimental verification of this method are given. The correlation length of time-differentiated speckle intensity fluctuations is defined by the point at which the correlation becomes zero. By means of the correlation length the object velocity is found to be accurately measured.