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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: books on holography
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 12:11:03 EST
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> Does anyone out there in netland know a good introductory book 
> on the physics and mathematics of holography? I'm particularly
> interested in generating holograms artificially, using
> a computer.

Oh boy!  My favorite never-get-around-to-it project!

A good introduction to holography is "Engineering Applications of
Lasers and Holography" by Winston E. Kock (Plenum Press, 1975).
A more advanced work is "Optical Holography" by Robert J. Collier,
Christoph B. Burckhardt, and Lawrence H. Lin (Academic Press, 1971).
These books contain references to published papers on computer-
generated holograms (including kinoforms).  Figure 18.10 of the
second book is a photo that should excite you..

I had our technical library conduct a literature search to locate
other references on the subject.  Perhaps a net working group
should be formed for the exchange of information on this topic?