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holography: a standalone construct

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Optics

recording the interference of object light with a reference wave so the full wavefront, amplitude and phase, can later be reconstructed.

In optics, holography refers to recording the interference of object light with a reference wave so the full wavefront, amplitude and phase, can later be reconstructed. This meaning comes from Gabor (1948) in Nature.[1]

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References

Gabor, D. (1948). A New Microscopic Principle. Nature, 161(4098), 777-778. https://doi.org/10.1038/161777a0

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