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Point Holograms as Optical Elements

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A point hologram is formed on a photographic plate when a spherical wavefront interferes with a plane or another spherical wavefront. Such holograms behave like lenses or mirrors, but are easier and cheaper to produce and may replace them for certain applications involving coherent light. It seems to be feasible to make them very much larger than conventional optical elements.

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    M. J. R. SCHWAR, T. P. PANDYA & F. J. WEINBERG

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SCHWAR, M., PANDYA, T. & WEINBERG, F. Point Holograms as Optical Elements. Nature 215, 239–241 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215239a0

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