Abstract

Laser speckle is a prominent source of fluctuations in heterodyne-detection imaging and differential absorption lidar systems. This paper calculates the transverse and longitudinal degrees of coherence between pairs of speckle intensities obtained, in different observation conditions, with a monostatic heterodyne-reception sensor.

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