Chapter 26

Other Applications of Holography

Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast….’

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

This chapter contains a number of applications of holography that are too limited in scope to merit a chapter on their own or are still in a comparatively early stage of development. There are three main groups of topics: far-field holography and holomicrography, holography at nonoptical wavelengths (including acoustic holography), and holography underwater and through scattering ...

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