TEXTBOOK READING: A whole chapter dedicated to wavefront reconstruction shows how popular the medium once was, and provides a practical application of interference and diffraction. This chapter is well-written, as at least one of the authors had his own holography studio (David Stork, Sundog Holography) and Suzanne St. Cyr (of Benton Math Worksheet fame) is acknowledged as being particularly helpful in reading their text, pp.368-393.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING:
Click on the titles below to open a new window of text to supplement the book, gleaned from a variety of sources, some even written by yours truly. They are presented in the order in which they would be introduced in the class lecture. For even more holography, here's a link to Holographic Fun, or to the Holo Museum on this site.
A GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING HOLOGRAMS IN THE FIELD: All the major types whose examples were shown in class.
CHRONOLOGY OF HOLOGRAPHY: A history.
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