2. holography
Holography is proposed by D.Gabor in 1948, it
initially aimed at solving the resolution problem of
electron microscope with coaxial holography (Inline
Hologram) . Because the invention of coherent light
source (laser) (1964), holography was able to be
realized.
3. Holography
When you look at the front side of the object with your eyes,
you see the light reflected in that direction only. When you
move your head sideways, you see a different light field
that is reflected in that direction. This is the result of the
three-dimensional structure of the object. The hologram is
simply the recording of this information in the form of
interference patterns created with the light field. This is usually
done with the help of lasers. The holographic image is simply
the reconstruction of the image from the interference patterns.
holographic images are virtual images that are recreated from
some information, recording the
a)the object is transformed into a photographic
record.
b) Reconstruction: the hologram is transformed into
the image.
7. Light source
Historically, the extremely short coherence lengths of optical
sources available before the advent of the laser seriously
constrained the types of holograms that could be recorded.
Today the availability of high-quality laser sources has vastly
alleviated this problem. However, the experimenter must still
take some precautions, for the coherence of lasers is not
perfect.
For example, it is good practice to measure the distances of the
reference beam and the object beam travel from source to
photographic plate and to equalize the lengths of these paths
as closely as possible.
8. The process of recording a hologram is an exercise in
interferometry. As with any interferometric experiment, if
clean and sharp interference fringes are to be recorded, it is
essential that all path-length differences for interfering light
be kept stable to within a fraction of an optical wavelength
during the duration of the exposure period.
The higher the power available from the laser source, the
shorter the required exposure time and the less severe the
stability requirements become.
STABILITY
9. EXPOSURE TIME
The exposure time required depends on a multitude
of factors, including
*the transmissivity or reflectivity of the object
*the distances and geometry involved, and
*particular film or plate used to record the
hologram.
Pulsed lasers with pulse durations as short as a few
nanoseconds have been used in some instances, and
CW (continuous wave) exposures as long as several
hours have been used in some cases.
10. Photographic emulsions
Some of the most stringent experimental
requirements are associated with the recording of
holograms of three dimensional scenes
Photographic emulsions with extremely high
resolution are required in such cases
One of the most commonly used emulsions for this
use, Kodak Spectroscopic Plate Type 649F, has a
resolution better than 2000 lines-pairs (cycles)/mm and
an equivalent ASA speed of about 0.03.3 It is invariably
true that
high-resolution emulsions are extremely insensitive.
11. Limited Dynamic range
some significance is the limited dynamic range of photographic
recording materials. The amplitude transmittance vs. exposure
curve is linear over only a limited range of exposure. It is
desirable to choose an average exposure that falls at the
midpoint of this linear region.
12. for example ,a object transparency with a rather coarse
structure, there may exist significant areas on the hologram
with exposures falling well outside the linear region.
As a consequence of this nonlinearity
degradation of the reconstructed images
can be expected.
The dynamic range problem can be
largely overcome by a technique first
demonstrated by Leith and Upatnieks
Leith And Upatnieks(1962)Applied
Laser light To Holography And Introduced
an Important off-Axis technique
13. The object is illuminated through a diffuser, which spreads the
light passed by any one point on the object to cover the entire
hologram. Thus a bright spot on the object will no longer
generate a strong Fresnel diffraction pattern on part of the
hologram, but rather contributes a more uniform distribution of
light.
14. Attendant with the advantageous reduction of
dynamic range of the exposing light pattern is
another advantage: since each object point
contributes to every point on the hologram, an
observer looking at a reconstructed image through
only a portion of the hologram will always see the
entire image.
As might be expected, the virtual image appears to
be backlighted with diffuse illumination.