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THE principle of Dr. D. Gabor's interesting method of reconstructing images of objects from photographs of the interference patterns produced when the object is illuminated with a coherent monochromatic wave-train is fully explained in his paper1. The treatment in this note is essentially the same, but I have ventured to present it in a very simplified form because I have found in discussions that difficulty is sometimes experienced in forming a physical picture of the reconstruction of the image, when the photographic plate can only record intensities of light and not phases.
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BRAGG, W. Microscopy by Reconstructed Wave-fronts. Nature 166, 399–400 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166399b0
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