Abstract

The statistical polarization properties of speckle patterns are used to develop a method for measuring birefringence inherent in a speckle producing process. A formula is derived for the mean value of the second Stokes parameter as a function of the birefringence and of the angular orientation of the linear retarder. Measurements have been successfully performed to determine the induced birefringence in a fiber coil.

© 1985 Optical Society of America

Statistical properties of laser speckles produced under illumination from a multimode optical fiber

Nobukatsu Takai and Toshimitsu Asakura
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(8) 1282-1290 (1985)

Non-Gaussian statistics of speckle noise of Young's fringes in speckle velocimetry

Roland Meynart
Appl. Opt. 24(10) 1448-1453 (1985)

Statistics of the Stokes parameters in speckle fields

P. F. Steeger, T. Asakura, K. Zocha, and A. F. Fercher
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1(6) 677-682 (1984)

Vectorial measurements of speckle displacement by the 2-D electronic correlation method

Nobukatsu Takai and Toshimitsu Asakura
Appl. Opt. 24(5) 660-665 (1985)

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