This article is recommended for teachers and students who having successfully made a reflection hologram now seek an introduction to making other types of holograms (including transmission holograms, interferograms, multi-channel holograms, diffraction gratings, and more). Holograms presented in this paper can be made using any of the Integraf hologram kits.

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Abstract

Thanks to the article "Simple Holography" (Jeong, T. H, Ro, and Iwasaki, M. SPIE Vol. 3956, pp. 241-244 (2000) Editors: S. Benton, S. H. Stevensen, T.J. Trout.), many teachers and students of holography know that one can make a reflection hologram with little more than just an inexpensive diode laser, a holographic plate and a chemical processing kit. What may be less familiar to students is how minor tweaks to the same setup, mostly without introducing any additional lab equipment or optics, can be used to make transmission holograms, multi-channel holograms, “omnigrams”, interferometric holograms, and even H1/H2 “floating” holograms and diffraction gratings.

This paper presents six simple and cost-effective hologram setups for learning beginner- to intermediate-level holography in the classroom or home. The methods introduced are primarily based on unpublished and published articles the late educator Dr. Tung H. Jeong (or “TJ”) and this author Alec Jeong prepared together between 2003 and 2015 to foster holography in education and inspire a new generation of young holographers.

Keywords: teaching holography, making holograms, reflection, transmission, interferometry, multi-channel

This paper was first presented in June 2018 at the 11th International Symposium on Display Holography held in Aveiro, Portugal.