Abstract
When laser light strikes a white wall or just some surface in space, a speckle pattern is observed. An example is given in Fig. 6.1. As a similar phenomenon is not observed with incandescent light or light from a spectral lamp, it must be a special property of laser light. Indeed, it is the special coherence properties of laser light that lead to the appearance of speckle patterns.
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Lauterborn, W., Kurz, T. (2003). Speckles. In: Coherent Optics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05273-0_6
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