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Prof. Emmett Leith was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 12, 1927, and received all three of his degrees, B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in physics, from Wayne State University, in 1949, 1952, and 1978, respectively. He spent his entire 50-year professional career at the University of Michigan. He was first employed as a research assistant (1952–1956) and then promoted to a research associate (1956–1960) at Willow Run Laboratories (WRL). In 1960, his research group at WRL was moved to the University of Michigan Institute of Science and Technology where he became a research engineer. He was appointed an associate professor of electrical engineering in 1965 and promoted to full professor in 1968.

In 1963, Emmett and Upatnieks introduced the technique of diffuse illumination to demonstrate the first high-quality holograms of three-dimensional objects. In Emmett’s own words: “We … found that the images formed from such holograms produced startling images, fully 3-D, without the need for viewing with special glasses, and had all of the usual properties of actual objects, including full parallax. One could move one’s head and peer ehind obscuring structures to see what was hidden behind, just as if one were viewing the actual objects.” When they presented their results publicly at the Annual Optical Society of America Meeting in the spring of 1964, they created quite a sensation.

Emmett Leith was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982. In addition to this honor, he received many awards, including the National Medal of Science (1979), the IEEE Morris Liebmann Memorial Award (1968), the Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute (1969), the R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America (1975), the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America (1985), and the Gold Medal of the SPIE (1990). Emmett supervised the research of 43 Ph.D. students at Michigan, and he regularly taught a variety of courses on basic optics and optical signal processing.

Emmett’s work on SAR and holography had an enormous technical impact and was a major driving force in shaping the field of optical signal processing. In addition to his educational and scientific contributions, his work spurred many commercial applications that now comprise a multi-billion dollar industry. Emmett, a humble individual by nature, loved his work and remained active in his field until the time of his death.

Award:
• IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award in 1960
• IEEE Morris Liebmann Memorial Award (1968)
• Ballantine Medal (1969)
• National Medal of Science in 1979
• Member National Academy of Engineering (1982)
• The Herbert Ives Medal of OSA in 1985
• The Gold Medal of SPIE
• The Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society of Britain
Member & Honors:
• Doctor of Science degree from University of Aberdeen
• Fellow of IEEE, SPIE and the Optical Society of America
• Honorary member of the Engineering Society (Detroit)
• Member: National Academy of Engineering.

By Professor Kim Winick
University of Michigan
EECS Dept., Univ. of Michigan
Tel: 734-764-520,Ffax: 734-763-8041
Email: winick@eecs.umich.edu

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According to the Orange Future of Football report for 2008. The Premier League will be playing games in space sometime soon, so it seems we can’t even speculate wildly enough to keep up with the changes to the global game. Fans will be able to live in and around football grounds as the ultimate display of loyalty, an honour previously reserved for groundsmen.

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The use of a projector to power the primary handset display opens up the possibility of holographic displays in the future. Samsung is developing a new technology to use optical projection displays inside mobile phones, instead of LCDs. This may soon enable cellphones with 3D holographic displays. Projection technology has become miniaturized enough to fit inside a handset, and Samsung has developed a “panel type waveguide,” a new refraction technology, that can distribute the light from these tiny optical projectors evenly across a mobile phone’s display.

Projection technology has benefits over LCD or OLED display technologies because the projection display can be scaled to any desired size (presumably by altering how the light is refracted onto the display), whereas an LCD or OLED display needs to be manufactured in a predetermined size.
Sources: http://gadgets.todaynominated.com/2008/02/22/samsung-phone-with-3d-holographic-projection-display/

The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) had launched the Olympic Hologram Snowboarding coin. The innovative hologram coin celebrates the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The $25 sterling silver coin is part of the Silver Hologram Coin Series, which includes 15 different designs or themes. The snowboarding theme is the first for 2008 and the sixth in the hologram series that will continue through the end of 2009. Only 45,000 coins will be minted for each theme.

Sources: http://www.mint.ca/royalcanadianmintpublic

Holography dates from 1947, when British / Hungarian scientist Dr. Dennis Gabor developed the theory of holography while working to improve the resolution of an electron microscope.

About Dr. Dennis Gábor
(Adapted from his autobiography)

Dr. Dennis Gábor
(b. 1900, Budapest - d. 1979, London)
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1971 for his investigation and development of holography.

Dr. Dennis Gábor was born in Budapest (Hungary) on 5 June 1900. He studied electrical engineering first in Budapest, later in Berlin from Techniscje Hochschule, where he finished his academic education with the award of Doctorate of Engineering in 1927. His doctorate work was the development of one of the first high speed cathode ray oscillographs and in the course of this, made the first iron-shrouded magnetic electron lens. In 1927 he joined Siemens & Halske AG Berlin, where he started investigations on gas discharges and plasmas. The most far reaching result of his six years with Siemens & Halske was his invention of the molybdenum tape seal, which is used to this day in all high-pressure quartz-mercury lamps. In what Dennis calls his “first lesson in serendipity,” he invented the mercury lamp while attempting to develop a cadmium lamp which proved unsuccessful.

In 1934 Gabor went to the British Thomson-Houston Co. Research Laboratory, Rugby, England, on an inventor’s agreement. . His work on gas discharge tubes gave him recognition in the BTH Research Laboratory where he remained until 1948. He also developed a system of stereoscopic cinematography, and in the last year at BTH carried out the basic experiments in holography, called “wave front reconstruction”.

On January 1, 1949 he joined the Imperial College of Science & Technology in London, first as a Reader in Electronics, and later as Professor of Applied Electron Physics, until 1967. From 1949-67 Gabor carried out some 20, mostly experimental, investigations with his Ph.D. assistants. They cleared up the “Langmuir Paradox”; the surprisingly fast apparent establishment of Maxwellian distributions of electrons in a low-pressure plasma, which had worried Gabor for 25 years. They also made a Wilson cloud chamber, in which the velocity of particles became measurable by impressing on them a high frequency, critical field, which produced time marks on the paths, at the points of maximum ionization. They also developed: a holographic microscope; a new electron-velocity spectroscope; an analogue computer which was a universal, non-linear “learning” predictor, recognizer and simulator of time series; a flat, thin color television tube; and a new type of thermionic converter. Theoretical work included communication theory, plasma theory, magnetron theory, and a scheme of fusion.

After his retirement in 1967 he remained connected with the Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and became Staff Scientist of CBS Laboratories, Stamford, Conn. where he collaborated with the President, life-long friend, and father of the color television, Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, in many new schemes of communication and display. Though he was always a passionate scientist and inventor, he was almost equally interested in social problems. In his spare time he wrote the books Inventing the Future (1963), Innovations (1970), and The Mature Society (1972).
He wrote, “Though I still have much unfinished technological work on my hands, I consider this as my first priority in my remaining years.”
(Editor’s Note: He passed away on 9 July 1979 in London.)

Honors
• Fellow of the Royal Society, 1956.
• Hon. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1964.
• D.Sc. Univ. of London, 1964, Hon. D.Sc. Univ. of Southampton, 1970, and Technological University Delft, 1971.
• Thomas Young Medal of Physical Society London, 1967.
• Cristoforo Colombo Prize of Int. Inst. Communications, Genoa, 1967.
• Albert Michelson Medal of The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1968. Rumford Medal of the Royal Society, 1968.
• Medal of Honor of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,1970. “ For his ingenious & exciting discovery and verification of the principles of holography”,
• Prix Holweck of the French Physical Society, 1971.
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1970.

Links:
Autobiography
http://www.de.nobel.se/laureates/physics-1971-1-autobio.html
Photos:
www.hologram.in
The 1971 Nobel Prize Presentation Speech:
http://www.de.nobel.se/laureates/physics-1971-press.html
An interview with Gabor:
http://www.photonicshistory.com/70-79-4.html

New Delhi : 13 Feb 2008
The crime of counterfeiting currency is as old as money itself. In the past, nations had used counterfeiting as a means of warfare, such as in the War Between the States in the USA in the mid-1800s and the Bernhard Operation in Europe during the Second World War. Today, the crime of counterfeiting continues to present a potential danger to national economies and financial losses to consumers. Recent developments in photographic and computer technology, as well as printing devices, have made the production of counterfeit money relatively easy, thereby increasing the potential threat. The Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested busted a an international fake currency racket.
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University of Arizona optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes. A 3-D holographic image that can be updated and viewed without special glasses may soon find its way from a UA optics lab to operating rooms and battlefield command centers.

The holographic displays – which are viewed without special eyewear – are the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory ever to be developed, making them ideal tools for medical, industrial and military applications that require “situational awareness.”

And what the entertainment and advertising industries could do with a lifelike image apparently appearing in thin air is anyone’s guess.
The unique component in this holographic system — a 4-inch-square glass-and-polymer display surface — is its ability to change, to be updated, rewritten, says Savas Tay, the lead scientist on this invention.
That holographic bird on your credit card can’t turn into something else every few minutes, but Tay’s display can take an image rendered in three dimensions — initially photographed or computer-generated — and display it on the display surface, followed by another and another.
The technology will be said. “Imagine that when you walk into the supermarket or department store, you could see a large, dynamic, three-dimensional product display,” he said. It would be an attention-grabber.
And no one yet knows where the advertising and entertainment industries will go with possible applications, Peyghambarian said. “Imagine that when you walk into the supermarket or department store, you could see a large, dynamic, three-dimensional product display,” he said.

“This is a new type of device, nothing like the tiny hologram of a dove on your credit card,” UA optical sciences professor Nasser Peyghambarian said. “The hologram on your credit card is printed permanently. You cannot erase the image and replace it with an entirely new three-dimensional picture.”

“Holography has been around for decades, but holographic displays are really one of the first practical applications of the technique,” UA optical scientist Savas Tay said.

Dynamic hologram displays could be made into devices that help surgeons track progress during lengthy and complex brain surgeries, show airline or fighter pilots any hazards within their entire surrounding airspace, or give emergency response teams nearly real-time views of fast-changing flood or traffic problems, for example.

And no one yet knows where the advertising and entertainment industries will go with possible applications, Peyghambarian

“Three-dimensional imaging techniques are already commonly used in medicine, for example, in MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) or CAT scan (Computerized Axial Tomography) techniques,” Tay said. “However, the huge amount of data that is created in three dimensions is still being displayed on two-dimensional devices, either on a computer screen or on a piece of paper. A great amount of data is lost by displaying it this way. So I think when we develop larger, full-color 3D holograms, every hospital in the world will want one.”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uoa-uo020508.php

CONTACTS:
Nasser Peyghambarian (520-621-4649; nnp@u.arizona.edu) Savas Tay (520-245-9722; savas.tay@gmail.com)
It updates 3-D images; may aid doctors
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BOOK piracy, the illegal reproduction of books, has assumed menacing proportions over the last two decades. In India, about 15,000 publishers publish about 70,000 books annually in 22 languages. According to the Federation of Booksellers and Publishers Association of India (FBPAI), book piracy poses a major threat to the 7000-crore publishing industry in the country and results in a loss of 400 crores to publishers in India.
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Very soon holograms will be made in less than a minute. University of Arizona optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes. The work, which started about two years ago, was done in collaboration with Nitto Denko Technical Corp. and was funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The holographic displays - which are viewed without special eyewear - are the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory ever to be developed, making them ideal tools for medical, industrial and military applications that require “situational awareness.”

According to the sources the technology will be helpful in medical science. “Three-dimensional imaging techniques are already commonly used in medicine, for example, in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) or CT scan (computerized tomography) techniques,” Tay said. “However, the huge amount of data that is created in three dimensions is still being displayed on two-dimensional devices, either on a computer screen or on a piece of paper. A great amount of data is lost by displaying it this way. So I think when we develop larger, full-color 3-D holograms, every hospital in the world will want one.”
Sources : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uoa-uo020508.php
Contact: Lori Stiles
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Pharmaceutical counterfeiting and purchasing medicines from the illegal distributions channels have become more and more common and a big problem in India. With the sale of spurious drugs increasing in New Delhi (NCR) by 25 percent per annum, the creation of the NCR Drugs Protection Authority to monitor the activities of fake drugs manufacturers is on the anvil.
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