Holography: origin, basic principle and applications of a revolutionary communication method in art and science

Abstract

History of human kind shows that man has developed various communication methods such as language, art, writing, photography, etc. The most revolutionary of these methods is holography, a completely new way to look at the world around us. Here we describe how art, writing and holography, that at a first hasty analysis might be considered different unrelated disciplines, have actually an interesting common background. This include the basic men’s need to transfer information as well as the contribution of a few important actors who developed the information transfer process. A short account is set of the origin and the working principle of holography against this multi-disciplinary framework. Although a large number of applications of holography has been devised, here only one example is reported to demonstrate the potential of electron holography to display pictorial maps of magnetic lines of force in matter. © 2015. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Ex. Fis. Nat. All rights reserved.