Holography

Submitted To: Presented

By:
Mr. Jitender Chhabra
(Lect. in ECE Dept.) Ritu Sangwan
07/ECE/44
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Holography: Means
 Holography (from the Greek, whole + write) is
the science of producing holograms
 It is an advanced form of photography that
allows an image to be recorded in three
dimensions.
 The technique of holography can also be used
to optically store, retrieve, and process
information.

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History of Holography
 Invented in 1948 by Dennis Gabor for use
in electron microscopy, before the
invention of the laser
 Leith and Upatnieks (1962) applied laser
light to holography.

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Conventional vs. Holographic
photography
 Conventional:
 2-d version of a 3-d scene
 Photograph lacks depth perception
 Film sensitive only to radiant energy
 Phase relation (i.e. interference) are lost

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Conventional vs. Holographic
photography
 Hologram:
 Freezes the intricate wavefront of light that carries all
the visual information of the scene
 To view a hologram, the wavefront is reconstructed
 View what we would have seen if present at the
original scene through the window defined by the
hologram
 Provides depth perception

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 Hologram properties
 If you look at these holograms from different
angles, you see objects from different
perspectives, just like you would if you were
looking at a real object

 They usually just look like sparkly pictures or

smears of color

 If you cut one in half, each half contains whole

views of the entire holographic image.

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Hologram properties

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Hologram construction
 Laser : Red lasers, usually helium-neon
(HeNe) lasers, are common in holography
 Beam splitter: This is a device that uses
mirrors and prisms to split one beam of light into
two beams.
 Mirrors: These direct the beams of light to the
correct locations.

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Hologram construction
 Holographic film: Holographic film can record
light at a very high resolution, which is necessary
for creating a hologram. It's a layer of light-
sensitive compounds on a transparent surface,
like photographic film.

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Hologram working

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Hologram reconstruction

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Why Laser ?
 Lasers produce
monochromatic light -- it
has one wavelength and
one color.
 Because of the need for
coherent interference
between the reference
and object beams

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Hologram: Some Applications
 Authentication.

 Virtual Display.

 Data Storage

 Holoprinters
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HOLOGRAM: AUTHENTICATION

 Identicard.
 Passport.
 Sticker or Tag.

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WHY HOLOGRAM FOR
AUTHENTICATION:
 Hologram stickers cannot be scanned or
photocopied .

 Hologram stickers can also create a

unique and attractive complement to your
existing packaging and product.

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Virtual Display:
 Sci-fic movies.
 For trade-show booths.
 Museums display .

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Data storage:
 Holographic data storage is a technique that can store
information at high density inside crystals or
photopolymers.
 The ability to store large amounts of information in some
kind of media is of great importance, as many electronic
products incorporate storage devices.
 The advantage of this type of data storage is that the
volume of the recording media is used instead of just the
surface.

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Holoprinters:
 A holoprinter is a holographic printing device that can print
out full-colour digital holograms from a rendered 3D
model or a video series.
 It uses red, green and blue lasers to write a series of dots,
or holopixels, across a holographic medium.
 The holographic medium is typically a polymer film.
 The film may require development after exposure
 There are only a few digital holoprinter manufacturers in
the world, including Geola (Lithuania), View Holographics
(UK) and Zebra Imaging (US).

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Conclusion:
 Built on technology that’s around for 40+ years

 Holographic Memory is the future of data storage

 HUGE capacity, Very fast, Smaller
 Parallel processing
 Current storage methods nearing there
fundamental limits of storage density

 Large market and little new competition

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