Light in Flight or the Holodiagram: The Columbi Egg of Optics, Vol. 27 Book

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgements	xi
1	Introduction
1.1	How the Holodiagram Developed	3
1.2	Operating Instructions	6
1.3	Coherence Length	15
1.4	Short-Pulse Lasers	28
1.5	Holography	29
2	The Holodiagram
2.1	Application to Coherence	36
2.2	Application to Interferometry	40
2.3	The Moir, Analogy to the Holodiagram	56
3	Deflection of Light
3.1	Resolution of a Lens	72
3.2	Reflection	74
3.3	Diffraction	79
3.4	Principle of Least Wave Change	94
3.4.1	Modification of Fermat's Principle	94
3.4.2	Examples of Equations	95
3.4.3	Test of Results	99
3.4.4	Conclusion	99
4	Interferometry
4.1	One-Dimensional Interferometers	100
4.1.1	Measurement of Length	100
4.1.2	Measurement of Velocity	104
4.2	Two-Dimensional Interferometers	116
4.2.1	The Michelson Interferometer	116
4.2.2	The Interferoscope	123
4.2.3	Projected Fringes	136
5	Holography
5.1	Image Formation	144
5.2	True and False Images	152
6	Holographic Interferometry
6.1	Moir, Pattern Analogy	164
6.2	Apparent Fringe Localization in Space	185
6.2.1	The Focusing Effect from Motion Trails	196
6.3	Table of Fringes	197
6.4	3D Evaluation of Fringes	207
7	Sandwich Holography
7.1	Basic Principles	213
7.2	Measurement of Deformation	224
7.3	Measurement of Dimension	230
8	Light-in-Flight Recording by Holography
8.1	Basic Correlation Principle	239
8.2	Study of Wavefronts	247
8.2.1	Light Reflected by a Mirror	251
8.2.2	Light Focused by a Lens	256
8.3	Study of Pulses	261
8.3.1	Shutter Faster than Light	261
8.3.2	The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle	268
8.3.3	Visualizing the Coherence Function	273
8.4	Study of Refraction	292
8.4.1	Test of Optical Fiber	292
8.4.2	Single-Pulse Light-in-Flight Recording by Holography	298
8.4.3	Delay Caused by a Transparent Object	299
8.4.4	Looking through Tissue	299
8.4.5	Future Experiments	311
9	Contouring
9.1	Measuring the Shape of 3D Objects	317
9.2	Single-Pulse Contouring	328
9.3	Comparing the Shape of a Test Object to a Master	336
10	Time Reconstruction in Lif Recording by Holography
10.1	The Apparent Pulse Front	341
10.2	Tilting the Pulse Front	347
10.3	The Light Shutter That Moves Faster Than Light	362
11	The Hologram in Outer Space
11.1	Light Echoes from Supernova	367
11.2	More Superluminal Motions	370
11.3	The Hologram Modified into an Egg	373
12	Relativity
12.1	The Modified Twin Paradox	380
12.2	Comparison of LIF Recording and Relativity	382
12.3	Time Dilation, Lorentz Contraction, Relativistic Aberration, and Transverse Red Shift	387
12.4	Apparent Red Shift Even without the Big Bang	397
12.5	Complete Relativistic Diagram	400
12.5.1	Deformation of Space and Time	402
12.5.2	Example of Graphic Evaluation	403
12.5.3	Results	405
12.5.4	Conclusion	414
12.6	Minkowski Diagram in Relativity and Holography	415
13	Looking at the World Through a Mirror	428
	References	436