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Improvements in or relating to speckle mitigation

Described herein is a method and system for mitigating the effects of speckle in a laser Doppler system, and, in particular in a laser Doppler vibrometry/velocimetry system. A scan unit is provided in at least one of: a transmit path for scanning at least one beam from a transmitting antenna over a moving target surface and a receive path for scanning at least one reflected beam received from the moving target surface onto a receiving antenna. An averaging unit is provided prior to post-processing or demodulation to average electrical signals corresponding to the reflected beams. By averaging before demodulation, speckle in the output signal is mitigated.
Patent Publication Number: EP3534149
Year filing: 2021
Year approval: 2021
Year publication: 2021
Status: Assigned
Technology domains: Measurement
Validated for IOF-key: Yes
Attributed to: Associatie Universiteit Gent