speckling

speckling definition - telecom
Graininess that appears in a degraded optical signal caused when perfectly coherent light waves travel slightly different physical paths, or modes, and interfere with each other. See also coherence.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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