Create Digital Holograms in Python

Exploring the world of digital holograms with HoloPy - a python package for computational light scattering and digital holography

To see the hologram, move your head back and forth and focus on the central point at least five times. It is displayed better on desktop monitors or laptops. Image by author, using Holopy.

Hologram is a special type of image made with a laser in which the flat objects look solid as if they are real. With recent advances in computer science, we can reconstruct a hologram from a…