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Edge contrast enhancement using vortex speckles

Kang-Min Lee, Cristian Hernando Acevedo, Aristide Dogariu

    Optics Letters
    |September 16, 2025
    PubMed
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    Perfect optical vortex (POV) beams improve edge contrast and object discontinuity detection compared to Gaussian beams. This research suggests POV beams enhance target detection and discrimination in partially coherent illumination systems.

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