How does Gabor's holography relate to modern data storage?
The principle behind holography, capturing interference patterns to store information, has a remarkable resonance with modern digital data storage. Just as a hologram stores a complete image distributed across its surface, allowing for redundancy and high density, many contemporary data storage technologies rely on encoding information in sophisticated ways. My early work explored how to capture and reconstruct wavefronts, a concept that has evolved into techniques for more efficient and robust information encoding. The ability to think in new ways, to see the potential in phenomena like light interference, is key to such advancements.
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