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Holography

Recording and reconstructing three-dimensional light fields.

Connects to Lasers and Laser Physics3 Condensed Matter Physics2 Electron Microscopy2 Quantum Optics2 Linguistics1 Radio and Broadcasting History1
Almanac Thirteen Years Ahead of His Own Invention
  • What information does ordinary photography discard that holography manages to preserve?
  • Why was Gabor working on electron microscopy when he arrived at the idea of holography?
  • Why couldn't holography be practically demonstrated with visible light until the invention of the laser in 1960?
Almanac A Photograph That Was Waiting for a Laser
  • What problem with electron microscope images led Dennis Gabor to invent holography?
  • Why did holography have to wait more than a decade after Gabor's 1947 idea before it could actually work?
  • How does splitting and recombining a laser beam with a reference wave produce a three-dimensional image?
  • What does the word 'holography' literally mean, and why did Gabor choose it?