Bogatyr'ova G. Properties of Young holograms

The dissertation is devoted to developing the consequences of the Young model of diffraction phenomena in holography and optical correlation data processing. Original holographic technique for a contour imaging is substantiated. Imaging and associative properties of referenceless recording of near-field and far-field diffraction patterns, i.e. Young holograms, are recognized, as well as properties of lin-ear and nonlinear off-axis Young holograms recorded with a simple reference wave or the combined one. The contouring effect in a phase-conjugate associative response of a static nonlinear Young hologram re-constructed in the self-conjugation fashion and in the double-phase conjugation one has been predicted and realized. An original algorithm for implementation of an optical wavelet-transform intended for edge detection that is based on a nonlinear Young hologram is proposed.