Holography and Coherent Optics

Now that holography has matured (wIth Dennis Gabor having received the Nobel Prize In 1971) and that coherent optics has proved to be even more powerful than originally imagined, in open­ ing the new field of "optical computing," it is particularlyappropri­ ate to make available to English-speaking readers the translation of a uniquely outstanding text which presents the general and per­ manent fo...