Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Handbook of Holography addresses the novel applications of holography, focusing on applications of volume holograms. Written as a guide for researchers, this book covers the fundamentals of holography and holographic systems, ranging from conventional applications such as data storage and pattern recognition to cutting-edge applications such as recording ultrafast events, velocimetry, and ultra-compact and efficient spectroscopy. The authors provide the necessary information to reproduce results for each included holographic system. They also present state-of-the-art holographic recording materials and relevant holographic recording geometries for different applications.