Holograms: Images of the Future

Economic Times, Sept. 19, 1992


Faced with a growing number of fake credit cards, Visa and Mastercard in the early eighties decided to print holograms of their individual seals on the credit cards. When there was an alarming increase in fake driver's licences, the California Department of Motor Vehicles incorporated a hologram of the seal of the State on all driver's licences. Scientists at several laboratories are using holograms to improve imaging of cells and tissues of plants and other biological systems. Rock videos are now routinely produced with amazingly real graphics, thanks to advances in holography and computer generated graphics. These are but some of the examples of how holograms, or "3-D pictures" are revolutionizing several areas of technology.

In 1947, a Hungarian born physicist, Dennis Gabor, working at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, discovered a technique for photography, which had the potential......

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