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Data Storage and Diffractive Elements

‘I’m afraid I am, Sir,’ said Alice. ‘I can’t remember things as I used—and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!’

‘Can’t remember what things?’ said the Caterpillar.

‘Well, I’ve tried to say “How Doth the Little Busy Bee,” but it all came different!’

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland

Judging by the number of papers published on the subject, one might imagine that data storage, that is, processing, storage, and retrieval of data, constituted the most important area in holography. Perhaps this is because many other important applications of holography have been researched more or less to finality, so that less remains to be done in these areas. An examination of the numerous papers on data ...

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