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Holography
Recording and reconstructing three-dimensional light fields.
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- 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?
- What information does ordinary photography discard that holography manages to preserve?
- What problem with electron microscope images led Dennis Gabor to invent holography?
- Why couldn't holography be practically demonstrated with visible light until the invention of the laser in 1960?
- Why did holography have to wait more than a decade after Gabor's 1947 idea before it could actually work?
- Why was Gabor working on electron microscopy when he arrived at the idea of holography?