2017/11/30 by Nicholas Bender, Hasan Yilmaz, Yaron Bromberg +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/optica.5.000595
published as Optica, Vol. 5, Issue 5, pp. 595-600 (2018)
arxiv created 2018/04/09 · arxiv updated 2019/03/12
We develop a general method for customizing the intensity statistics of speckle patterns on a target plane. By judiciously modulating the phase-front of a monochromatic laser beam, we experimentally generate speckle patterns with arbitrarily-tailored intensity probability-density functions. Relative to Rayleigh speckles, our customized speckles exhibit radically different topologies yet maintain the same spatial correlation length. The customized speckles are fully developed, ergodic, and stationary: with circular non-Gaussian statistics for the complex field. Propagating away from the target plane, the customized speckles revert back to Rayleigh speckles. This work provides a versatile framework for tailoring speckle patterns with varied applications in microscopy, imaging and optical manipulation.