Higher-Order Statistical Properties of Speckle

doi:10.1117/3.2548484.ch4

Book: Speckle Phenomena in Optics: Theory and Applications, Second Edition

Author(s): Joseph W. Goodman

Published: 2020

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2548484.ch4

Author Affiliations +

Abstract

Based on the material presented in Chapter 3, the statistical properties of optical speckle at a single point in space (or, for dynamically changing speckle, a single point in time) are understood. Now we turn to the joint properties of two or more speckles, which can represent samples of a single statistically stationary speckle pattern, or, in the bivariate case, the statistics of two polarization components of a speckle pattern at a single point in space or time.