title: Self-referential holography and its applications to data storage and phase-to-intensity conversion.
abstract: Holographic recording methods require the use of a reference beam that is coherent with the signal beam carrying the information to be recorded. In this paper, we propose self-referential holography (SRH) for holographic recording without the use of a reference beam. SRH can realize purely one-beam holographic recording by considering the signal beam itself as the reference beam. The readout process in SRH is based on energy transfer by inter-pixel interference in holographic diffraction, which depends on the spatial phase difference between the recorded phase and the readout phase. The phase-modulated recorded signal is converted into an intensity-modulated beam that can be easily detected using a conventional image sensor. SRH can be used effectively for holographic data storage and phase-to-intensity conversion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Design and Informatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan. takabayashi@ces.kyutech.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takabayashi
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okamoto
mesh_terms: D006696:Holography / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*