Laser beam imaging from the speckle pattern of the off-axis scattered intensity

DOI10.1137/17M1139059MaRDI QIDQ4604661zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Borcea, Josselin Garnier

Publication date 5 March 2018

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08452

zbMATH Keywords

imagingPoisson point processspeckle patternwave scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

Abstract: We study the inverse problem of localization (imaging) of a laser beam from measurements of the intensity of light scattered off-axis by a Poisson cloud of small particles. Starting from the wave equation, we analyze the microscopic coherence of the scattered intensity and show that it is possible to determine the laser beam from the speckle pattern captured by a group of CCD cameras. Two groups of cameras are sufficient when the particles are either small or large with respect to the wavelength. For general particle sizes the accuracy of the laser localization with two groups of cameras is subject to knowing the scattering properties of the cloud. However, three or more groups of cameras allow accurate localization that is robust to uncertainty of the type, size, shape and concentration of the particles in the cloud. We introduce a novel laser beam localization algorithm and give some numerical illustrations in a regime relevant to the application of imaging high energy lasers in a maritime atmosphere.

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