Chapter 2
Brief History of Holography
“Ahem!” said the Mouse with an important air. “Are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! “William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the Earls of Mercia and Northumbria –” “Ugh!” said the Lory, with a shiver.
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland
There seems to have been no particular reason why holography should have been such a late developer. Although holograms today are invariably made using a laser as the light source, they can be—and have been, with some restrictions—made using other light sources. The ...
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