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Abstract
A theoretical analysis of the hardware mechanisms for subjective speckle suppression in RGB laser projectors has revealed that achieving a compact speckle-free passive laser illumination system with uniform illumination requires simultaneous reduction of temporal, spatial, and polarization coherence of the illumination laser beam, along with light intensity homogenization. To address this, we propose a compact passive optical scheme based on incoherent focusing of the laser beam using arrays of prisms with varying heights. The system also incorporates depolarization of a portion of the laser beam and an optical diffractive optical element employing a pseudo-random binary sequence to enhance speckle reduction and improve uniform illumination quality. We demonstrate that such a system can be assembled using readily available laser light sources and optical elements, and its operational principle is experimentally validated.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Optics publishes new experimental and theoretical research across all areas of pure and applied optics, both modern and classical. Research areas are categorised as:
Nanophotonics and plasmonics
Metamaterials and structured photonic materials
Quantum photonics
Biophotonics
Light-matter interactions
Nonlinear and ultrafast optics
Propagation, diffraction and scattering
Optical communication
Integrated optics
Photovoltaics and energy harvesting
We discourage incremental advances, purely numerical simulations without any validation, or research without a strong optics advance, e.g. computer algorithms applied to optical and imaging processes, equipment designs or material fabrication.