General Theory of Holography*
- 1 November 1970
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 60 (11) , 1511-1517
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.60.001511
Abstract
In this paper I propose a method of analysis general enough to encompass all proposed forms of holography, including coherent, incoherent, and modulated incoherent. The analysis shows that a coherent source is the only one giving uniformly good results on the basis of signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio. For incoherent and modulated incoherent sources the S/N ratio decreases as 1/N½, where N is the number of coherent elements in the source.Keywords
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