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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Painted Post, NY (US);
Martin Hempstead, Painted Post, NY (US);
Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Painted Post, NY (US);
Martin Hempstead, Painted Post, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a laser source comprising is provided. The method reduces speckle contrast in a projected image by creating a plurality of statistically independent speckle patterns. The method comprises generating a plurality of sub-beams that define an optical mode. The method further comprises controlling the phase of selected sub-beams to continuously sequence the laser source through a plurality of orthogonal optical modes. The plurality of orthogonal modes create a corresponding number of statistically independent speckle patterns, thus reducing speckle contrast in a image projected using the laser source by time averaging.