Chronicles of Optical Scanning Holography (OSH)

• Original idea implicated in Poon and Korpel’s paper (Optics Letters, 1979)

• Idea later analyzed by Poon and called Scanning Holography (J. Optical Society of America,1985)

or Optical Heterodyne Scanning holography (1991 Gordon Research Conference);

finally, called Optical Scanning Holography (Duncan and Poon, J. Optical Society of America A, 1992)

• Optical scanning holography is a technique in which holographic information can be acquired by single 2-D optical heterodyne scanning.

• Applications so far include

– Scanning holographic microscopy (Poon et al., Optical Engineering, 1995)

– 3-D object recognition (Poon and Kim, Applied Optics, 1999)

– 3-D optical remote sensing (Kim and Poon, Optical Engineering, 1999)

– 3-D TV (Poon, J. Information display, 2002)

– 3-D cryptography (Poon et al., Applied Optics, 2003)

– ???

Review Articles:

– T.-C. Poon, M. Wu, K. Shinoda, and Y. Suzuki, "Optical Scanning Holography," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 84, pp.753-764 (1996).

– T.-C. Poon, “Recent Progress in Optical Scanning Holography,” Journal of Holography and Speckle, Vol. 1, pp.6-25 (2004).

Development in scanning holographic microscopy:

– 100-micron lateral resolution achieved (Poon et al., Optical Engineering, 1995)

– 10-micron resolution achieved with fluorescent beads (Schilling et al., Optics Letters, 1997): first holographic fluorescence microscope demonstrated in the world

– 1-micron resolution achieved (Indebetouw et al., J. Optical Society of America A, 2005)

– Better than 1-micron resolution achieved with fluorescent specimens (Indebetouw and Zhong, J. Optical Society of America A, 2006).

– 3-D fluorescence microscopy with both the resolution and acquisition speed greater than confocal microscopes (???)

Development in 3-D object recognition:

– 3-D object recognition considered as correlation of two holograms, theory and simulation results (Poon and Kim, Applied Optics, 1999)

– First experimental results (T. Kim et al., Optical Memory and Neural Networks, 8, pp. 139-145 (1999).

Development in 3-D optical remote sensing:

– Extraction of 3-D location of matched 3-D object (Kim and Poon, Optical Engineering, 1999)

– Accuracy of three-dimensional remote target location (Klysubun et al., Optics Communications, 2000)

– Depth detection and image recovery in remote sensing (Kim et al., Optical Engineering, 2002)

– Experiments of depth detection and image recovery (Kim and Poon, Optical Engineering, 2004)

Development in 3-D TV:

– 3-D TV proposed ( Poon, J. Information display, 2002)

– Horizontal-parallax-only electronic holography (Poon et al., Optics Express, 2005)