by Din » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:07 pm
While at 89, it's not a great surprise, nevertheless, I think one of the giants of holography has passed.To me, his book is one of the Triumvirate of Holography Books - The Triple Bible of Holography (along with the books by Collier and Solymar). His derivations in the book have a simplicity to them that really made me understand phase relationships when I first read it about 1982.
Around 2003 I was at an SPIE meeting and having a drink in the food area when I heard someone behind me talk about the quantum effects of four interacting electrons - a double, double slit experiment. As a former theoretical physicists, this was an interesting overheard conversation, so I turned around to ask the person some questions about his thesis. To my surprise, it was Hariharan! He told me he was studying four-wave-mixing with electrons instead of photons. We had a fairly interesting conversation for a while. When he launched the Journal of Holography and Speckle, I was honoured to be asked by Hariharan to be an early reviewer.
While at 89, it's not a great surprise, nevertheless, I think one of the giants of holography has passed.To me, his book is one of the Triumvirate of Holography Books - The Triple Bible of Holography (along with the books by Collier and Solymar). His derivations in the book have a simplicity to them that really made me understand phase relationships when I first read it about 1982.
Around 2003 I was at an SPIE meeting and having a drink in the food area when I heard someone behind me talk about the quantum effects of four interacting electrons - a double, double slit experiment. As a former theoretical physicists, this was an interesting overheard conversation, so I turned around to ask the person some questions about his thesis. To my surprise, it was Hariharan! He told me he was studying four-wave-mixing with electrons instead of photons. We had a fairly interesting conversation for a while. When he launched the Journal of Holography and Speckle, I was honoured to be asked by Hariharan to be an early reviewer.