Reconstructing Reality with Lasers

In 1965 physicist Lloyd Cross saw his first hologram in Michigan’s Willow Run, a laboratory in a defunct bomber plant, specializing in radar and infrared optics for battlefield surveillance. Scientists there built upon UK-based Dennis Gabor’s original 1948 invention that used a mercury arc lamp to create the laser hologram, the first method of reconstructing reality with a concentrated beam of light. Three years later Cross invented the first moving hologram: an image of a woman blow