Holography for the New Millennium

ISBN-13: 9781441929532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 319 str.

Jacques Ludman; H. John Caulfield; Juanita Riccobono

Opis

A half century after its invention, and after several waves of optimism and pessimism, holography is now poised to achieve widespread application. Holograms are now being used as tools in many industries, from heads-up displays in aircraft to directing interconnections in massively parallel computing. Acoustic holograms can provide three-dimensional images of internal organs without surgery or dangerous radiation, and holography forms the basis of several other forms of nondestructive testing. This book provides both a review of the development of the field and of the applications likely to be important in the 21st century. It begins with a review by Emmett Leith, one of the inventors of holography - or re-inventors, after Denis Gabor's original work in 1947. Two chapters discuss the frontiers of holographic imaging, including color holograms and stereographic movies. Several subsequent chapters describe novel methods of forming and viewing holographic images, including the use of low-coherence sources or even computers to generate the holograms. The book concludes with a sampling of new applications of holography, including its uses in improving the efficiency of solar cells, in nondestructive testing, in improving the coherence properties of light, in data storage, and in investigations of fundamental physics.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"The book provides both a review of the development of the Holography from a half century and of the main fields of application. ... this book can have an interest for anyone looking for a large information about the development of Holography and Applications ... ." (Yvon Renotte, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Fotonica, Juni, 2003)

Spis treści

I. Overview: Where Holography is Going // II. Display Holography / 1. Color Holograms / 2. Real-Time Autostereographic 3-D Displays // III. Special Modalities and Methods / 1. Edge-Lit Holograms / 2. Subwavelength Diffractive Optical Elements / 3. Coherence Gated Holograms / 4. Sculpturing of Three-dimensional Light Fields by Iterative Optimization // IV. Applications / 1. Solar Holography / 2. Holographic Optical Memories / 3. Holography and Speckle Techniques Applied to Nondestructive Measurement and Testing / 4. Diffuser Display Screen / 5. Holographic Nonspatial Filtering for Laser Beams / 6. Particle Holograms / 7. Holographic Antireflection Coatings // V. Physics and Holography / 1. Holography and Relativity / 2. Quantum Holograms

O autorze

Holography was invented by Dennis Gabor in 1947, long before the technology existed to make good use of it. It was reinvented (independently) in the 1960s by Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks, and is now poised to achieve widespread application. Holograms are now being used as tools in many industries, from heads-up displays in aircraft to providing three-dimensional images of internal organs without surgery or dangerous radiation.