Dr. Robert A. Freking
Enrollment: Advance sign-up Required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Bring laptop with MATLAB installed. Have MATLAB experience
Learn to conceptually appreciate holographic phenomena through hands-on examples and measurements!
Although spatial perception in both living creatures and machines ultimately rests on underlying phase relationships borne on propagating waves, component sensors typically detect only intensity. While this conversion explicitly discards phase, holography formalizes a means of reversing this loss by recognizing and preserving phase relationships embedded in intensity-profile snapshots of controlled interference patterns. Phase thereby recovered may be exploited to restore knowledge of an additional un-sampled spatial dimension. This course will demystify holography by demonstrating how to gather and interpret recordings to recover spatial information. Course topics examine principles and applications of holographic phenomena and explore both physical and computational techniques for generating and reproducing content. Participants will practice holography hands-on in both the optical and audio domains through interactive laboratory exercises employing exposed film, computer-generated holography (CGH) and sonic readings. Measurement devices, supplies and MATLAB starter code will be provided. \\\*Work sponsored by the Department of the Air Force under Contract #FA8721-05-C-0002, but not necessarily endorsed by the U.S. Government.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Dr. Robert A. Freking, LIN-A-281, (781) 981-2098, holographycourse@ll.mit.edu