DISTORTION COMPENSATION AND ELIMINATION IN HOLOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION

We discuss the quantitative location of objects from holographic image s when the reconstruction wavelength differs from the recording wavele ngth. The holographic image equations are interpreted in a way that cl arifies the meaning of stereo pairs of holographic images and indicate s how backprojection methods can be used in holography to locate objec ts. Alternative methods involving the production of distortion free ee regions in the holographic image field during reconstruction, the use of self-calibrating objects in the object field during recording, and triangulation can be used to locate objects. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.