Digital Holography (Hardcover)

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 section describes the fundamentals of the diffraction theory and exhaustively describes 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 section.

A special section is devoted to the algorithms and methods for the numerical reconstruction of holograms. A special chapter is 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 differences between digital holography and speckle interferometry and examples of software for hologram reconstructions are also treated briefly.