Multidimensional tomographic imaging using volume holography

We propose the application of volume holography to four-dimensional (4-D) s patiospectral imaging. The proposed systems use materials and techniques de veloped for holographic data storage and interconnections to capture three- dimensional (3-D) spatial and one-dimensional (1-D) spectral information ab out a remote light source ol scatterer. We analyze case studies of simple a rchitectures using spherical-reference volume holograms as imaging elements in a florescence confocal microscope arrangement and demonstrate the equiv alence of the holographic degeneracies with a slicing operation on the reco nstructing incoherent source. We develop a general theoretical framework fo r the diffraction of random fields from volume holograms and show that the formulation can he used as an imaging design tool. Applications and future directions are also discussed.