A narrow-band speckle-free light source via random Raman lasing
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2015 Taylor & Francis. Currently, no light source exists which is both narrowband and speckle free with sufficient brightness for full-field imaging applications. Light-emitting diodes are excellent spatially incoherent sources, but are tens of nanometers broad. Lasers, on the other hand, can produce very narrow-band light, but suffer from high spatial coherence which leads to speckle patterns, which distort the image. Here, we propose the use of random Raman laser emission as a new kind of light source capable of providing short-pulsed narrow-band speckle-free illumination for imaging applications.
Hokr, B. H., Schmidt, M. S., Bixler, J. N., Dyer, P. N., Noojin, G. D., Redding, B., ... Scully, M. O.
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Hokr, Brett H||Schmidt, Morgan S||Bixler, Joel N||Dyer, Phillip N||Noojin, Gary D||Redding, Brandon||Thomas, Robert J||Rockwell, Benjamin A||Cao, Hui||Yakovlev, Vladislav V||Scully, Marlan O