A hologram of an object is recorded using a CCD-sensor and stored in a
frame grabber. The hologram is reconstructed digitally using a comput
er by simulation of Fresnel diffraction. The complex amplitudes of the
reconstructed wave fields and the coherence factor between two points
in space is then calculated. The mean 3D speckle size in a digitally
reconstructed wavefront is calculated by autocorrelation. By simulatin
g ring apertures it is possible to reconstruct wavefronts containing s
peckle clusters.