Book description
This book presents a substantial description of the principles and
applications of digital holography.
The first part of the book
deals with mathematical basics and the linear filtering theory
necessary to approach the topic. The next part describes the
fundamentals of diffraction theory and exhaustively details the
numerical computation of diffracted fields using FFT algorithms. A
thorough presentation of the principles of holography and digital
holography, including digital color holography, is proposed in the
third part.
A special section is devoted to the algorithms and
methods for the numerical reconstruction of holograms. There is also a
chapter devoted to digital holographic interferometry with
applications in holographic microscopy, quantitative phase contrast
imaging, multidimensional deformation investigations, surface shape
measurements, fluid mechanics, refractive index investigations,
synthetic aperture imaging and information encrypting.
Keys so as
to understand the differences between digital holography and speckle
interferometry and examples of software for hologram reconstructions
are also treated in brief.
Contents
1. Mathematical Prerequisites.
2. The Scalar Theory of
Diffraction.
3. Calculating Diffraction by Fast Fourier
Transform.
4. Fundamentals of Holography.
5. Digital
Off-Axis Fresnel Holography.
6. Reconstructing Wavefronts
Propagated through an Optical System.
7. Digital Holographic
Interferometry and Its Applications.
Appendix. Examples of
Digital Hologram Reconstruction Programs
