A coherent light projection system comprising: a coherent light source system (16r, 16g, 16b) configured at least to emit coherent light; an image forming system including one or more spatial light modulators (12r, 12g, 12b), the spatial light modulators comprise two-dimensional arrays of addressable modulator pixels that modulate the coherent light incident thereon in accordance with the image data signals; a relay system configured at least to form an intermediate image at an intermediate image plane from coherent light output from the image forming system (12r, 12g, 12b), the intermediate image being an aerial real image comprising image pixels which are each images of the modulator pixels; a refractive speckle reduction element located at or substantially at the intermediate image plane, the refractive speckle reduction element comprising a lenslet arrangement formed on a surface of the refractive speckle reduction element; a movement generating system configured at least to move the refractive speckle reduction element and steer image light of the intermediate image as the intermediate image is transferred through the lenslet arrangement of the refractive speckle reduction element; and a projection subsystem configured at least to project the steered image light of the intermediate image, as transferred through the moving refractive speckle reduction element, characterized in that the lenslet arrangement comprising lenslets each having an aperture, wherein a size of the lenslet apertures is greater than or equal to a size of a image pixel of the intermediate image at the intermediate image plane. a coherent light source system (16r, 16g, 16b) configured at least to emit coherent light; an image forming system including one or more spatial light modulators (12r, 12g, 12b), the spatial light modulators comprise two-dimensional arrays of addressable modulator pixels that modulate the coherent light incident thereon in accordance with the image data signals; a relay system configured at least to form an intermediate image at an intermediate image plane from coherent light output from the image forming system (12r, 12g, 12b), the intermediate image being an aerial real image comprising image pixels which are each images of the modulator pixels; a refractive speckle reduction element located at or substantially at the intermediate image plane, the refractive speckle reduction element comprising a lenslet arrangement formed on a surface of the refractive speckle reduction element; a movement generating system configured at least to move the refractive speckle reduction element and steer image light of the intermediate image as the intermediate image is transferred through the lenslet arrangement of the refractive speckle reduction element; and a projection subsystem configured at least to project the steered image light of the intermediate image, as transferred through the moving refractive speckle reduction element, characterized in that the lenslet arrangement comprising lenslets each having an aperture, wherein a size of the lenslet apertures is greater than or equal to a size of a image pixel of the intermediate image at the intermediate image plane.