This book is a collection of articles written by the world's leading scientists in the fields of holography, speckle, optical metrology, non-destructive testing, interferometry, shape measurement, and diffractive optics, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of holography in 2021 and its remarkable impact on numerous areas of science and engineering to the present day. Sixty years after the publication of the seminal article by Leith and Upatnieks, 55 years after the discovery of holographic interferometry by Stetson and Powel, 50 years after the invention of speckle metrology and Gabor's remarkable Nobel lecture in 1971, this unique collection provides a complete overview of this exciting field.

This book is a collection of articles written by the world's leading scientists in the fields of holography, speckle, optical metrology, non-destructive testing, interferometry, shape measurement, and diffractive optics, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of holography in 2021 and its remarkable impact on numerous areas of science and engineering to the present day. Sixty years after the publication of the seminal article by Leith and Upatnieks, 55 years after the discovery of holographic interferometry by Stetson and Powel, 50 years after the invention of speckle metrology and Gabor's remarkable Nobel lecture in 1971, this unique collection provides a complete overview of this exciting field.

Part I. Celebrating Holography and its Impact over 60 years.- Chapter 1. The Discovery of Holographic Interferometry, Its Development and Applications.- Chapter 2. The language of holography.- Chapter 3. Contributions of holography to the advancement of interferometric measurements of surface topography.- Chapter 4. Shearography and its applications ? a chronological review.- Chapter 5. 55 Years of Holographic Non-Destructive Testing and Experimental Stress Analysis: Is there still Progress to be expected?.- Chapter 6. Reflections about holographic and non-holographic acquisition of surface topography.- Part II. Digital Transition of Holography.- Chapter 7. Digital holography in production: an overview.- Chapter 8. Snap-shot topography measurement via dual-VCSEL and dual wavelength digital holographic interferometry.- Chapter 9. Parallax Limitations in Digital Holography: A Phase Space Approach.- Chapter 10. Resolution enhancement of digital holographic microscopy via synthetic aperture: a review.