Holographic Visualization of Shock Wave Phenomena

Gabor (1948), for the first time, presented the concept holography. In 1971, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded on him for his invention of holography, which opened a new era in the flow visualization. This was a long time before the advent of the lasers. Encouraged by the development of lasers, Light beams are characterized by their amplitude and phase angle. Leith and Upatnieks (1962) developed off-axis holography in which object and reference beams, OB and RB, illuminate on a holographic film with an off-axial direction and became a basis of modern holographic interferometry.