Holography for the New Millennium

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Where Holography Is Going

      • E. Leith

      Pages 3-10

3. Display Holography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Color Holograms

      • Hans I. Bjelkhagen

      Pages 13-35

   3. Real-Time Autostereoscopic 3D Displays

      • Tin M. Aye, Andrew Kostrzewski, Gajendra Savant, Tomasz Jannson, Joanna Jannson

      Pages 37-55

4. Special Modalities and Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Edge-Lit Holograms

      • Michael Metz

      Pages 59-78

   3. Subwavelength Diffractive Optical Elements

      • Joseph N. Mait, Dennis W. Prather, Neal C. Gallagher

      Pages 79-99

   4. Coherence-Gated Holograms

      • Christopher Lawson, Denise Brown-Anderson

      Pages 101-119

   5. Sculpturing of Three-Dimensional Light Fields by Iterative Optimization

      • Joseph Shamir, Rafael Piestun

      Pages 121-153

5. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Solar Holography

      • Juanita R. Riccobono, Jacques E. Ludman

      Pages 157-178

   3. Holographic Optical Memories

      • Philip Hemmer, Selim Shahriar, Jacques Ludman, H. John Caulfield

      Pages 179-189

   4. Holography and Speckle Techniques Applied to Nondestructive Measurement and Testing

      • Pramod K. Rastogi

      Pages 191-222

   5. Diffuser Display Screen

      • Gajendra Savant, Tomasz Jannson, Joanna Jannson

      Pages 223-241

   6. Holographic Nonspatial Filtering for Laser Beams

      • Jacques E. Ludman, Juanita R. Riccobono

      Pages 243-252

   7. Particle Holograms

      • Chandra S. Vikram

      Pages 253-265

   8. Holographic Antireflection Coatings

      • Jacques E. Ludman, Timothy D. Upton, H. John Caulfield, David W. Watt

      Pages 267-277

6. Physics and Holography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279

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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 Dennis 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.

• Speckle
• holography
• imaging
• laser
• radiation

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)

• Northeast Photosciences, Inc., Hollis, USA

  Jacques Ludman

• Department of Physics, Fisk University, N. Nashville, USA

  H. John Caulfield

• Microphotonics Group, Optical Switch Corporation, Bedford, USA

  Juanita Riccobono

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