Speckle Characterization in Laser Projector Display

Speckle phenomena results from when coherent radiation is reflected from a rough surface. Characterizing the speckle strongly depends on the measurement condition and experimental setup. In this paper we report the experimental results produced with different parameters in the setup. We investigated the factors which affects the speckle contrast, such as, F-number, gamma value and exposure time of the camera, rather than geometric factors like the distance between the projector lens to the screen, the viewing distance, etc. The measurement results show that the speckle contrast decreases by decreasing F-number, by increasing gamma value, and slightly affects by exposure time of the camera and the gain value of the camera.

Authors:

• Meifang Xu
• Yunbo Shi
• Guoxian Tang
• Jun Liu
• Xuyuan Chen

Keywords:

• Characterization
• laser projector
• speckle

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