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Practical Holography, 3rd Edition

by Graham Saxby

 

IOP Publishing, 2003 ISBN 0 7503 0912 1

482 pages

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Below is the complete table of contents of PRACTICAL HOLOGRAPHY. Without reservation, we highly  recommend this comprehensive book to teachers and holography enthusiasts. This new edition of PRACTICAL HOLOGRAPHY is now available on Integraf's online catalog.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Foreword to first edition

 

Preface to third edition

 

Preface to second edition

 

From the preface to first edition

 

PART 1: PRINCIPLES OF HOLOGRAPHY

 

  Chapter 1: What is a hologram?

    Stereoscopy

    Defining the problem

    The problem solved

    Interference

    An experiment with interference fringes

    Diffraction

    Amplitude and phase gratings

 

  Chapter 2: How holography began

    References

 

  Chapter 3: Light sources for holography

    Light as an electromagnetic phenomenon

    Propagation of electromagnetic waves

    Oscillators

    Properties of light beams

    Atoms and energy

    Stimulated emission

    The three-level solid-state laser

    Q-switching

    Four-level gas lasers

    Mirrors and windows in CW lasers

    Ion lasers

    Tunable lasers

    Semiconductor (diode) lasers

    Diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers

    Pseudowhite lasers

    Warning notices

    Avoiding accidents

    Protective eyewear

    Pulse laser

    The laser itself

    Further reading

 

  Chapter 4: The basic types of hologram

    Laser transmission holograms

    Replaying the image

    The real image

    Reflection holograms

    Phase holograms

    Image-plane holograms

    White-light transmission holograms

    Other types of hologram

    Color holography

    Embossed holograms

 

  Chapter 5: Materials, exposure and processing

    The silver halide process

    Technical requirements for holographic materials

    Constituents of a developer

    Bleaches

    Other processes

 

PART 2: PRACTICAL DISPLAY HOLOGRAPHY

 

  Chapter 6: Making your first hologram

    Basic requirements

    The laser

    A beam expander

    Support for the laser

    Support for the plate

    Setting up for the exposure

    Setup with a small diode laser

    An alternative setup for a larger laser

    Processing solutions

    Exposing

    Processing

    Viewing the image

    A one-step real image

    Displaying your hologram

    What went wrong?

    Suppliers of holographic materials

    Further reading

 

  Chapter 7: Single-beam techniques 1

    Single-beam holograms of unstable subject matter

    Building a single-beam frame

    A rear-surface mirror system without double reflections

    The laser

    Triangular benches

    Spatial filtering

    Setting up with a spatial filter

    Making an electrically operated shutter

    Safelights

    Index-matching fluid

    Exposing and processing

    Getting the exposure right

    Multi-exposure techniques

 

  Chapter 8: Single-beam techniques 2

    The transfer principle

    Making a reflection master hologram

    Transmission transfer holograms

    360o holograms

    Further applications of single-beam holograms

    Mounting and finishing holograms

    Troubleshooting

 

  Chapter 9: Bypass holograms

    Transmission master holograms

    Reflection master holograms

    Reflection transfer holograms

    Full-aperture transmission transfer holograms

    Rainbow holograms

    Reflection holograms from transmission masters

    Transflection holograms

    Other configurations

    References

 

  Chapter 10: Building a holographic laboratory

    Laboratory space

    The optical table

    Building a sand table

    Supporting the optical components

    Building a concrete table

    Metal tables

    Table supports

    Bases for optical components

    Excluding drafts

    Mounting the laser

    A gantry for overhead equipment

    Cantilevers

    Draft excluder

    Processing area

    Storeroom

    Display area

    References

 

  Chapter 11: Master holograms on a table

    Beamsplitters

    Other types of beamsplitter

    Illuminating the subject

    Collimating mountings

    Plate holder

    Collimating mirror

    How stable is your table

    Basic configuration for transmission master holograms

    What went wrong?

    Backlighting and background illumination

    Silhouettes and black holes

    Supine subjects

    Frontal illumination

    Multiple-exposure techniques

    Masters for rainbow holograms

    Reflection master holograms

    Working with plates

    Cutting glass

    Processing plates

    Optical fiber systems for holography

    Multimode fibers

    Single-mode fibers

    Launching the beam

    Making holograms with fiber optics

    Connecting fiber ends

    Further reading

 

  Chapter 12: Transfer reflection holograms

    Parallax in transfer holograms

    Reflection transfer holograms from transmission masters

    How to deal with weak master images

    Side and underneath beam master transfers

    The role of the Bragg condition

    Two-channel transfer holograms

    Holograms of stereoscopic pairs of photographs

    Multi-channel images

    Converging reference beams

    Pellicular collimating mirrors

    Copying holograms

    Copies by scanning

    What went wrong?

 

  Chapter 13: Transfer transmission holograms

    Full-aperture transfer holograms

    Rainbow holograms

    Geometry of a rainbow hologram

    Slit width

    A one-dimensional beam expander

    A convergent reference beam

    Multi-channel rainbow holograms

    What went wrong?

    Edge-lit holograms

 

  Chapter 14: Holograms including focusing optics

    Demagnifying and magnifying

    Image enlargement and reduction

    Focused-image holograms

    Focused-image reflection holograms

    One-step rainbow holograms

    Synthetic-slit holograms

    Fourier-transform holograms

    References

 

  Chapter 15: Homemade optical elements

    Liquid-filled lenses

    One-dimensional collimators

    What to do in case of leaks

    Other sizes and focal lengths

    Calculations for designing a liquid-filled lens

    Two-dimensional collimating lenses

    Measurements for a collimating lens

    Focusing lenses

    Holographic optical elements (HOES)

    Calculation of focal length

    Holographic diffraction gratings

    Holographic lenses

    Making holographic mirrors and beamsplitters

    Holographic collimating mirrors

    Aberrations of HOEs

    Multi-beam HOEs

    A more uniform laser beam

    References

 

  Chapter 16: Portraiture and pulse laser holography

    Construction of a ruby laser

    Safety considerations

    Maintenance of pulse lasers

    Other types of pulse laser

    Setting up a pulse laser studio

    Special problems with holographic portraiture

    Lighting for portraiture

    Exposure

    Processing

    Other subject matter

    Double and multiple pulses

    References

 

  Chapter 17: Holography in natural colors

    The eye and color perception

    The CIE chromaticity diagram

    Color transmission holograms

    Denisyuk holograms in color

    Transfer holograms in color

    Portraiture in color

    The problem of color accuracy

    The future of color holography

    References

 

  Chapter 18: Achromatic and pseudocolor holograms

    Achromatic white-light transmission holograms

    Dispersion compensation

    The achromatic angle for transmission masters

    Achromatic reflection holograms

    Pseudocolor holograms

    Pseudocolor single-beam reflection holograms

    Pseudocolor transfer reflection holograms

    Accurate color registration by geometry

    How to obtain precise registration

    Pseudocolor white-light transmission holograms

    Obtaining better registration

    One-step pseudocolor WLT holograms

    References

 

  Chapter 19: Holographic stereograms

    The multiplexing principle

    Making a multiplexed hologram

    Cylindrical stereograms

    Making a Cross hologram

    Flat image-plane stereograms

    The scope of modern stereographic imagery

    Geometrier for photographic originations

    Perspective and distortion

    Wide-angle distortion

    Alignment and spacing of the photographs

    Long base stereograms

    Registration

    Computer control of imagery

    Basic considerations for a stereographic holoprinter

    Exposing

    Stereogram masters from photographic prints

    Preventing dropouts

    Computer image processing

    Achromatic and color stereograms

    Transferring achromatic stereograms

    Full-color stereograms

    Full-color WLT transfer stereograms

    Full-color reflection transfer stereograms

    Color balance

    Color accuracy: WLT or reflection?

    Calculating distances

    Stereograms with full parallax

    Perspective correction by pre-distortion

    Conical stereograms

    Volume multiplexed holograms

    References

 

  Chapter 20: Non-silver processes for holography

    Dichromated gelatin (DCG)

    Rendering DCG sensitive to red light

    Coating plates

    Exposing

    Processing

    Sealing the hologram

    Color control

    Silver halide sensitized gelatin (SHSG)

    Photopolymers

    Photothermoplastics

    Photoresists

    Photochromic materials

    Bacteriorhodopsin

    Photorefractive crystals

    References

 

  Chapter 21: Embossed holograms

    The initial artwork

    Holographic recording

    Making the photoresist master

    Depositing the conductive layer

    The first-generation master

    Electroforming of final shims

    The embossing process

    Further reading

    References

 

  Chapter 22: Display techniques

    Basic types of hologram and their display

 

    Displaying holograms at home

    Window displays

    Displays to accompany lectures and presentations

    Submitting holograms for exhibitions

    Packing a hologram for forwarding to an exhibition

    Organizing an exhibition of holograms

    Lighting arrangements

    Light sources

    Installing the exhibits

    Floor plan

    Relevant information

    Environment

    Photographing holograms

    Equipment

    Reflection holograms

    Transmission holograms

    Viewpoint and parallax

    Unusual holograms

    Photographing holograms at exhibitions

    Using flash

 

    Presenting slides of holograms

    Copyright

    References

 

PART 3: APPLIED HOLOGRAPHY

 

  Chapter 23: Holography and measurement

    Direct measurements using holography

    The principle of holographic interferometry

    Real-time interferometry

    Double-exposure interferometry

    Time-average interferometry

    Strobed interferometry

    Visualization of fluid flows

    Doubled illuminating beams

    A camera for holographic interferometry

    Sandwich holography

    Reference mirror rotation

    Fringe measurement

    Speckle interferometry

    Holographic contouring

    Summary of applications

    Further reading

    References

 

  Chapter 24: Data storage and diffractive elements

    Why holographic data storage?

    Data processing

    Spatial filtering with Fourier-transform holograms

    Fourier-transform holograms: the principles

    Image de-blurring

    Correlation filtering

    Computer-generated holograms (CGHs)

    Applications of Fourier-transform CGHs

    Strategies for making CGHs

    CGHs with a personal computer

    Diffractive optical elements

    Basic types of DOE

    Fabrication of DOES

    Applications of DOES

    Further reading

    References

 

  Chapter 25: Holography in biology and medicine

 

    Dental holography

    Histology and pathology

    Ophthalmic holography

    Multiplexed holograms

    Holograms and diagnostics

    References

 

  Chapter 26: Holographic motion pictures and video

    Making the image move

    Real-time holography

    Holographic movies

    Holographic video and television

    References

 

  Chapter 27: Other applications of holography

    Far-field holography

    Holomicrography

    Microwave holography

    Infrared holography

    Ultraviolet holography

    X-ray holography

    Electron holography

    Acoustic holography

    Light-in-flight holography

    Polarization holography

    Conoscopic holography

    Pseudodeep holograms

    Digital holography

    Conclusion

    References

 

  Appendix 1: The mathematical background to holography

    Formation of a hologram

    Reconstruction of the image

    Traveling and standing waves

    Bragg diffraction

    Effects of shrinkage during processing

    Modulation and contrast

 

  Appendix 2: The Fourier approach to image formation

    Fourier series

    Fourier transform

    Reciprocal relationship of x-space and frequency space

    The Fourier convolution theorem

    Two-dimensional objects

    Further reading

 

  Appendix 3: Geometrier for creative holography

    Designing a setup for a white-light transmission hologram

    Worksheet for multicolor WLT holograms

    Multicolor layouts designed by geometry

    Locating the hinge point and illumination axis

    Multicolor WLT hologram geometry

    Multicolor reflection hologram geometry

    References

 

  Appendix 4: Fringe stabilization

    Error detector

    Expanding the fringes

    Comparator and amplifier

    Transducer

 

  Appendix 5: Processing formulas

    Developers for silver halide emulsions

    Developers for transmission holograms

    Developer for true-color holograms

    The pyrochrome process

    Image color control

    Solution-physical developers

    Rehalogenating bleaches

    Haze removal

    Oxidized developing agents as bleaches

    Pre- and post-swelling

    Silver halide sensitized gelatin processing

    Preparation of red-sensitive DCG emulsion

    Making your own holographic emulsion

    Electroplating formulas

    References

 

Index

 

 

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