This book explains the principles of laser beam interactions applied to the recording,
readout, and processing of information-carrying optical waves. It treats both quantitatively …

Laser Speckle and Applications in Optics focuses on developments in laser speckle
techniques, with emphasis on the experimental aspect of phenomena and on applications in …

Since the invention of the laser there has been a growing interest in the random speckle
pattern that is generated when light from this highly coherent source is scattered by a rough …

It was after the advent of the laser and its applications in holography that the attention of
research workers was attracted by the speckle effect which is produced when a diffusing …

As the words holo (complete) and gram (message) connote, the hologram captures the
entire message of a scene in all its visual properties, including the realism of three …

This book is intended for upperclass college students as an introduction to the growing field
of coherent optics and to the increasing number of its applications, and also for those versed …

Now that holography has matured (wIth Dennis Gabor having received the Nobel Prize In
1971) and that coherent optics has proved to be even more powerful than originally …

We describe the principles of holographic storage and reconstruction of ultrashort light
pulses using spectrally nonselective media. This can be achieved by the application of a 3-D …

In any plane of an optical tract a coherent light wave is completely described by the complex
amplitude, that is to say by a two-valued function. It can, however, also be described by a …

We demonstrate that images of laser-illuminated objects can be formed from measurements
of the wave-front slope (gradient) associated with the backscattered, coherent laser-speckle …