Detection of the Object Velocity Using Doubly-scattered Dynamic Speckles Under Gaussian Beam Illumination

Abstract The dynamic properties of doubly-scattered speckles produced at the image plane have been investigated using a scattering model that consists of a coherent Gaussian beam, a cascade of two moving diffusers and a single imaging lens. Dependence of the fluctuation speed of time-varying image speckles on the velocities of the diffusers is found to change with the size of illuminating speckles and the width of the point-spread function of the imaging lens. When the point-spread function and the focal position satisfy certain conditions, three kinds of velocity information—the velocity of each diffuser, the average velocity of the diffusers and the velocity difference between the diffusers—can be obtained by measuring a temporal correlation length of the time-varying speckle intensity. Experimental results confirm the theoretical predictions.

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