Hadamard speckle reduction for millimeter wave imaging

Millimeter wave imaging technology makes possible imaging of phenomena, which are inaccessible to visible light, but suffer from speckles, produced by coherent sources. We report a 50% speckle reduction, measured with a free-space vector network analyzer over the full W-band. Our experiments demonstrate how Hadamard mask operates as a tunable filter. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 48: 1722–1725, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21747