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Holography is a synthesis, for the purpose of recording and displaying an image, of two venerable branches of optics. The two branches referred to are interferometry, used in recording the hologram, and diffraction, used to display the image.
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Hildebrand, B.P., Brenden, B.B. (1972). Introduction. In: An Introduction to Acoustical Holography. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8657-9_1
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