Speckle reduction in laser projections with ultrasonic waves

Lingli Wang; Theo T. Tschudi; Markus Boeddinghaus; Alexander Elbert; Thorsteinn Halldorsson; Palmi Petursson

doi:10.1117/1.602543

1 June 2000 Speckle reduction in laser projections with ultrasonic waves

Lingli Wang, Theo T. Tschudi, Markus Boeddinghaus, Alexander Elbert, Thorsteinn Halldorsson, Palmi Petursson

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 6, (June 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602543

In laser front projection display, the observer in the far field of the image pixels on the screen will observe serious speckle noise. For the first time we show a way to eliminate speckles in the far field by modulating a laser beam with traveling ultrasonic waves in a liquid cell. The resulting running interference fringes in a pixel on the screen will produce a boiling speckle pattern, which will be time-averaged in the eye of the observer. By superposition of ultrasonic waves of different frequencies, the speckle contrast can be reduced even further. We optimized the modulation frequencies, as well as the scattering properties of different screen materials. The intensity modulation depth of the speckle pattern could be reduced to a few percent without noticeable influence on the beam quality.

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Lingli Wang, Theo T. Tschudi, Markus Boeddinghaus, Alexander Elbert, Thorsteinn Halldorsson, and Palmi Petursson "Speckle reduction in laser projections with ultrasonic waves," Optical Engineering 39(6), (1 June 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602543

Published: 1 June 2000

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