Abstract

A method to realize an equal-intensity beam splitter (EIBS) using wire grid polarizers (WGPs) is proposed. The EIBS consists of WGPs with predetermined orientations and high-reflectivity mirrors. We demonstrated the generation of three laser sub-beams (LSBs) with equivalent intensities using EIBS. The three LSBs were incoherent by introducing optical path differences larger than the laser coherence length. The LSBs were used to reduce speckle passively, where the objective speckle contrast was reduced from 0.82 to 0.5 when all three LSBs were used. The feasibility of EIBS in speckle reduction was studied using a simplified laser projection system. The structure of the EIBS implemented by WGPs is simpler than EIBSs obtained by other methods.

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