A hologram is simply a
A)complex diffraction grating.
B)thin sheet of non-cubic transparent crystals.
C)pair of semi-crossed polarization filters.
D)thin photographic film with microscopic images over the entire surface.
E)none of these

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A hologram is a complex diffraction grating that produces a three-dimensional image by diffracting light. The interference pattern created by the holographic recording process is encoded into the hologram, and when illuminated with a suitable light source, the hologram reconstructs the original object or scene as a three-dimensional image.

A Hologram Is Simply a