Waveguide holograms: A new approach to hologram integration
Abstract
A new class of holography is proposed, in which (1) the evanescent part of a guided wave, or (2) the guided wave in a thin-film hologram is utilized as the reference wave and/or the illuminating one. The hologram was designated as "wave-guide hologram" and has advantages in the possibility of integration, wide field of view, and compactness and high reliability of the reconstructing system. The possibility of the waveguide hologram has been proved through reconstruction experiments with a guided wave of a waveguide hologram recorded with a plane reference wave.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- December 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(76)90097-3
- Bibcode:
- 1976OptCo..19..353S
- Keywords:
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- Holography;
- Optical Waveguides;
- Thin Films;
- Wave Front Reconstruction;
- Helium-Neon Lasers;
- Imaging Techniques;
- Plane Waves;
- Semiconductor Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers