Product Code: JLA_6_4_244

Authors:
Gareth T. Williams
Jeff Fredrick
Physics Department, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Without disputing the excitement and sense of accomplishment associated with the production of display holograms, this paper suggests equal rewards from the production of holographic optical elements (HOEs). The elements described here are zone plates, diffraction gratings, interference filters and mirrors, and lenses. Ways of making each of these in an optics teaching laboratory are described, but the main emphasis will be on positive lens HOE.