Publisher's Synopsis
Holography is an exciting branch of the discipline of optics. Holography, like
photography, represents the total endeavour of recording and retrieving of the subject
information in the format of optical fields or wavefronts. Holography is a recent addition
to the rich repertoire of optical techniques, which have been developed over years for the
understanding of a subject in terms of its image. Admittedly we are choosing an
imperfect route to understand a subject, because an image obtained with an optical
instrument always suffers from certain deficiencies in so far as its information content is
concerned. The optical phenomenon of interference and diffraction play crucial role in
holography. It is precisely for this reason we will endeavour to built the edifice of
holography on the same foundation namely, Young's experiment.
