Progress in holography

MAR 01, 1972

As this method of imaging becomes better understood, it can offer the best solution for problems in fields as diverse as architecture, medicine and mechanical engineering.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3070770

Emmett N. Leith

Juris Upatnieks

With the award of the 1971 Nobel prize in physics to Dennis Gabor, holography has reached a new pinnacle of prestige. Gabor won his prize for the invention of holography, a form of wavefront reconstruction in which a coherent reference wave appears to unlock a three‐dimensional replica of an object from a two‐dimensional standing‐wave pattern.

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More about the Authors

Emmett N. Leith. University of Michigan.

Juris Upatnieks. University of Michigan.