Australian Holographics
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Australian Holographics was a laboratory based in Adelaide, South Australia. It was established in 1989; the laboratory was used to try to produce high-quality large format holograms. After two years of development, the company began commercial operations in 1991. The laboratory eventually shut down in 1998. The lab was situated on 80 acres (320,000 m2) of rural farmland 25 miles (40 km) from Adelaide.
Facilities
The lab's facilities included a 5×6 meters vibration isolation table in a studio with air-lock loading doors. The main laser was a continuous wave, 6 W argon laser built by Coherent Scientific. The company also used a 3-joule ruby pulse laser, built in collaboration with Professor Jesper Munch of the School of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Adelaide.
The company specialized in the production of large white-light-viewable rainbow holograms, a type of holography originally invented in 1968 by Stephen Benton of MIT. In 1992, Australian Holographics produced a 2×1 metre rainbow transmission hologram of a Mitsubishi station wagon car, which was shown at the Holographics International '92 conference in London.
For the AH project, they built a large climate-controlled studio that incorporated a 6×5 metre, 25-ton optical table.
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