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This is the first article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for imaging purposes. Speckle is the complex interference wave-field produced by a random distribution of un-resolved scatterers. In this paper, we show…

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We describe a light scattering apparatus based on a novel optical scheme covering the scattering angle range $0.5\dg \le \theta \le 25\dg$, an intermediate regime at the frontier between wide angle and small angle setups that is difficult…

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