'Help me, BYU!' Professor close to duplicating Princess Leia hologram

PROVO — A BYU professor who considers himself a holographer has created a new type of 3-D display that could soon free Princess Leia from science fiction and re-create her hologram in real life.
Daniel Smalley's invention of an optical-trap display isolates a dust particle and illuminates it with red, green and blue light was published this morning in the science journal Nature.
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