Field Guide to Holography

Content: Field guide to holography --
Glossary --
Historical background --
Optical field: plane wave --
Optical field complex notation and spherical wave --
Interference --
Coherent waves --
Diffraction --
Hologram --
Diffraction grating and orders --
Volume gratings --
Holographic optical elements --
Holography outside the visible spectrum --
Grating equation --
Angular dispersion --
Bragg's law --
Grating vector --
Classification of holograms --
Reflection versus transmission geometry --
Thin/thick criteria --
Efficiency of thick unslanted gratings. The analytic coupledwave analysis --
Rigorous coupledwaveanalysis --
Dispersion of thick volume gratings --
Remarkable thin gratings --
Scalar theory of diffraction. Kirchhoff diffraction integral --
Fresnel diffraction integral --
Fraunhofer diffraction integral --
Diffraction by simple apertures --
Remarkable interference patterns --
Holography: interference recording and reconstruction formalization --
Aberrations in holograms --
Computer generated holograms --
Errors in computer generated holograms --
Spacebandwidth product --
Inline transmission hologram (Gabor) --
Inline reflection hologram (Denisyuk) --
Offaxis transmission hologram (Leith and Upatnieks) --
Imaging consideration of transmission holograms --
Transfer hologram (H2) --
Rainbow hologram (Benton) --
Edgelit hologram --
Holographic stereogram --
Color holograms --
Lippmann photography --
Multiplexing --
Holographic interferometry --
Phase conjugate mirror --
Digital holography --
Holographic television --
Phase stabilization --
Silver halide --
Photopolymer --
Dichromated gelatin --
Photochromic materials --
Photoresists --
Embossed holograms --
Polarization sensitive material --
Photorefractive materials --
Inorganic and organic photorefractive materials --
Acoustooptic modulator (Bragg cell) --
Spatial light modulators.