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Holographic Interferometry: Then and Now

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In the autumn of 1964, Robert L. Powell and I discovered holographic interferometry while working at the Radar Laboratory of the University of Michigan’s Institute of Science and Technology. I have worked in this field ever since, and I have watched it grow from an unexplored technology to a widespread industrial testing method, and I have contributed to these developments. In this paper, I will trace my history in this field—our discovery and my involvement in its theory and applications. I will conclude with a discussion of digital holography, which is currently replacing photographic holography for most research and industrial applications.

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  1. Dipartimento Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politechnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

    Luciano Lamberti

  2. Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Ming-Tzer Lin

  3. Mechanical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

    Cosme Furlong

  4. Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

    Cesar Sciammarella

  5. Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Phillip L. Reu

  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    Michael A Sutton

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Stetson, K.A. (2019). Holographic Interferometry: Then and Now. In: Lamberti, L., Lin, MT., Furlong, C., Sciammarella, C., Reu, P., Sutton, M. (eds) Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97481-1_35

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