A well-known issue when dealing with lasers as illumination sources is the formation of speckle, which results in an intensity interference pattern that appears superimposed on an image. To combat the formation of speckle, we have been developing tunable liquid crystal (LC) diffusers that can reduce the appearance of speckle in a range of different display and imaging applications. Not only does this approach provide direct control of the speckle contrast, allowing it to be reduced from C = 0.7 to C = 0.07, but it does so without the need for bulky mechanical parts, moving components or expensive elements.
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