Mieczysław Wolfke - a pioneer of holography

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https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v13i4.1107

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wolfke, holography, gabor, abbe theory, diffraction

Abstract

Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention and development of the holographic method, Dennis Gabor mentioned Mieczysław Wolfke as the person who proposed this method as early as 1920 (which he did not know, independently making the same discovery). This article describes the history of Wolfke's pioneering work and tries to recreate the thought process that led to it - starting with the task of supplementing and verifying the diffraction grating theory proposed by Ernst Abbe, which he carried out as part of his doctorate at the University of Wrocław and habilitation at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich..

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2021-12-30

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K. Petelczyc, “Mieczysław Wolfke - a pioneer of holography”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 66–69, Dec. 2021.

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