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Geola Introduces Security Digital Mastering System Using Pulsed Laser Lithuanian company Geola exposure energy of a CW laser. It’s Digital uab has joined the variation of the direct write digital small club of companies mak- holography (DWDH) technique ing high-resolution digital means requires a single hologram mastering system for security exposure to create a white-light embossed holograms with the viewable hologram, as the hogel introduction of its mastering records the calculated diffraction system which uses the com- pattern of the H2 master (the pany’s own BlueBird pulsed white light viewable hologram). laser which it has developed This calculation establishes the specifically for photoresist information that is required based exposure as masters for em- on the perspective of the image bossed holography. This fol- An 80 x 60 mm shim of a full colour hologram produced by from each hogel in the H1 to H2 lows its experimental work to Krypten from a Geola master shot with a pulsed laser. Seen in transfer. This means that each test the use of pulsed lasers to diffuse light (L) and point light source (R). hogel has 800-900 individual expose pixelated holograms on photo- Geola has found that, using a pulsed perspective views. resist (the most common photosensi- laser with output at 440 nm (indigo/ According to Dr Stanislovas Zacha- tive material for mastering for surface blue light), with test photoresist rovas, executive director at Geola, relief holograms), as the usual expo- samples from Shipley and Micro Resist the pulse beam technique is means sure method is to use continuous wave Technology, it can expose holographic shorter exposure times and simplified (CW) lasers. pixels (‘hogels’) at a fifth of the Continued on page 3 MTM’s Trackable HoloTag INSIDE THIS ISSUE Turkish embossed hologram producer tion Technologies Inc; MTM Market- Editorial: Convergence: Good for Holography! 2 MTM Holografi Guvenlikli Basim ing and Trade Inc and MTM Informa- ve Bilisim Teknolojileri San.ve Tic. tion Technologies Inc, which between Protection for Registration A.S (MTM) has been producing them employ around 88 people, most Documents in Ecuador 3 holographic tax for the Turkish of them involved with holography one Pure Holography at Brighton Ministry of Culture for several way or another. Currently there are six Fringe Festival 3 years, and the current version is a people in R&D, around 55-60 people Holoptica’s Rapid Expansion 4 sophisticated with taggants and in hologram manufacturing and the tracking features, with the ability remainder in management and sales. The HoloQR Patent 4 to be read by a specialist reader or a Production capacity is 100000 sq m of ISO Holography smartphone. The company is extending holographic foil per month. Characterisation Standards for its reach by offering this type of label The company is certified to ISO National Consultation 5 under the name HoloTag as a product 9000 and Intergraf’s CWA as a secu- Stockwatch: Markets All protection or tax label that carries a 2D rity printer and security hologram pro- Fall on Ukraine Uncertainty 6 bar code and an taggant. ducer, and proudly told Holography MTM, based at a Tecnopark spon- News® that it will shortly be certified Holography Conferences sored by the Turkish R&D Centre in under ISO 14298 (management of Call for 7 Kocaeli, about 80 km southeast of Is- security processes). As well 10 Years and 20 Years Ago 7 tanbul, was founded in 1997 and now as its security holograms it is work- Exhibitions, Conferences comprises three companies: MTM Ho- ing with the General Command of and Meetings 7 lography Secure Printing and Informa- Continued on page 8

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Convergence: Good For Holography! The number of companies producing holograms with machine readable numbering system that was codified, some kind of encrypted serial number continues to grow, controlled and promoted by industry/brand owner as reflected in this issue of Holography News® in the associations that have morphed in to GS1. And as those article about HoloTag from MTM in Turkey. associations have morphed in to GS1, so the standard linear Market interest in this type of combination label is bar code has morphed in to encrypted 2D, data matrix and high, as shown in the growth of Holoptica, driven by its QR codes, patterns of (usually) black and white squares HoloQR® hologram, also reported in this issue. And we which contain a very substantial amount of information have previously reported on combination hologram/codes about the item they mark – encoded of course. from Andrews & Wykeham, Kurz, tesa and others – it is And which therefore allow even tighter control of almost invidious to name these companies as so many inventory and supply chain. So it is understandable that hologram companies are now making such holograms. increasingly cost-conscious brand owners and retailers Is this simply a bandwagon that many companies are have taken matrix-based track and trace systems to their jumping on? Is it a case of my competitor is doing it, I’d heart. A move in which they have been encouraged by very better as well? Or my customer influential bodies such as the US is about to move away from The convergence of hologram overt Food & Drug Administration holograms to 2D data matrix and recent EU legislation on security and matrix codes demonstrates the codes for track and trace, so marking of medicines and I’d better find a way to keep industry’s greater level of market awareness tobacco products. them? If you can’t beat them, and sophistication. We surely don’t need to re- join them? mind our regular readers that, Obviously, there is some of that at play. But we see while these tracking and tracing methods provide excel- something more fundamental playing out here. Yes, it’s lent supply chain control and monitoring, and they thus true that many brand owners and industry associations are help to avoid product diversion and infiltration of coun- turning to encoded track and trace systems, so hologram terfeits, they do not actually provide authentication of the producers need to find a way to provide something that item they are on. We have covered this ground too often to meets their perceived requirements. But note that this is repeat it here, but it is relevant to what is happening in the hologram producers responding to markets. security hologram business. From Technology Driven… … To Market Led This is something different; not new, but certainly While these matrix codes provide excellent tracking the most clear manifestation of a trend in the holography ability, holograms provide excellent authentication ability. industry. This is still a young industry – it’s barely 40 years An obvious overt feature, they can also contain covert since the first embossed hologram went on sale – and for features, from optical features that need special tools to most of its group life, certainly in its infancy and mid-years, detect them (such as a laser pointer or a polarising filter) it has largely been technology driven. As holograms were to taggants and coatings that have nothing intrinsically a new product this has been inevitable; its inventors and to do with holography, but which can be worked in to its entrepreneurs (often but not always one and the same) the manufactured hologram to provide additional covert wanted to show what could be done with the product. They security characteristics. devised better and better techniques to make holograms Put the two feature sets together – matrix codes and more acceptable to the public, who were sometimes their holograms – and the result comes pretty close to the customer directly, more often indirectly. So the most ultimate product security feature. It can deliver overt commercial type of hologram, surface relief, has progressed security, visual covert features, machine readable covert from spectrally coloured science-fiction images that were features, tracking, tracing and product monitoring. If the difficult to see in all but controlled lighting conditions, to matrix code is incorporated in to the hologram optically, colour controlled images and designs that appear bright and rather than being printed, it raises another barrier to the viewable under ambient lighting. counterfeiter. All, though, driven by what was coming out of the lab The security hologram companies have recognised this. and off the holography table. OK, maybe they needed to in order to keep their customers, Meanwhile, and usually with more resources, other but this demonstrates a level of market responsiveness companies have been developing ways to track products that was not typical of the hologram industry 20 or even through the supply chain, delivering better inventory 10 years ago. These hologram producers have taken a control and supply chain monitoring to manufacturers, market trend, worked it in to their holograms in sometimes brand owners and retailers for whom excess stock is ingenious ways, and come out with a product which both money tied up, money not working, and shortage of stock meets perceived market needs and goes a step (or even two is even worse. Not to mention diversion and the infiltration steps) further. The convergence of hologram overt security of counterfeits in to the supply chain. and matrix codes can only be good for the industry and These developments became formalised in the black- demonstrates its greater level of market awareness and and-white zebra-stripe bar code, the now ubiquitous sophistication.

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Geola Introduces Security Digital Mastering System... cont’d recording schemes without the need and a pulse repetition rate of 30 Hz, so for vibration isolation and plate stabili- there are no stability issues in the expo- zation. In its experimental set up it has sure. Coherence length is over 3 metres recorded holograms of 100 sq cm (10 with peak pulse power at 40, 120 and x 10 cm) with hogels of 200 x200µm 300 kW respectively. in approximately 180 minutes. The test Using the BlueBird laser, the master- sample full-colour hologram of butter- ing system will record 1 sq cm in six flies illustrated, which is 8 x 6 cm, took minutes, on hologram sizes from 10 x 90 minutes to record. 10 mm to 1.5 x 1.5 metres, with 1000 frames per pitch. The holograms can be Solid State Pulsed Lasers in An SEM profile of a photoresist master Mastering System exposed with pulsed laser. full colour, achromatic or combination The BlueBird range of solid state designs, with an image depth up to 75% pulsed lasers has been designed specifi- ence beam also focused on the same of the hologram width. cally to exploit this process for master- spot. The plate is moving at a constant Geola is pricing the base level digital ing surface relief holograms, and Ge- speed in the x direction, as a line of mastering system at around €115000, ola has incorporated this in to its new hogels is exposed. After each line is depending on the specific configuration digital mastering system for security exposed the plate is moved 100 µm, the requested. This includes the controlling or other surface relief holograms. The size of the hogel, in the y direction. software, laser, opto-mechanics, plate calculated diffraction pattern for each There are three BlueBird models holder and precise x-y movement stag- hogel is displayed on an LED screen (simply 1, 2 and 3), which is a solid state es. It offers the 60Hz laser at an extra operating as the spatial light modula- laser operating at 440nm, with output €20000, and an option for a microtext tor (SLM), which the laser object beam power of 2, 6 and 15 mJ respectively embedding feature at €30000. passes through before being focused on (equivalent to 60, 180 and 450 mW), at to the photoresist plate, with the refer- a pulse duration under 50 nanoseconds www.geola.lt Protection for Registration Pure Holography at Documents in Ecuador Brighton Fringe Festival OpSec Security has an- During the Brighton (UK) Fringe nounced a contract to Festival there will be an exhibi- supply secure signature tion of multi-colour holograms protection for registra- under the title Pure Hologra- tion documents issued phy. Described as ‘An exhibi- by the Registor Civil of tion of the stunning single and Ecuador, which deals multi colour 3D holograms of with all births, deaths Inaki Beguiristain’, it will be at OpSec’s Signature Protectors and marriages in the the Friese-Greene Gallery at the country. It wanted to ensure that once signed, official signa- Brighton Media Centre from tures could not be removed or edited without significant dam- May 3rd to June 1st 2014, with Coloured Lines, one of the age to the document. free admission. There will be a holograms in the show. OpSec’s Signature Protectors ensure these legally bind- series of young people’s holog- ing signatures can be fully protected. The product is a self- raphy workshops and other demonstrations to complement adhesive tamper evident label which offers overt, covert and the exhibition. forensic authentication, using the company’s Advantage™ Beguiristain first came across holograms while studying liquid crystal technology. In normal lighting conditions, both for his physics degree at London’s Imperial College, setting daylight and artificial, the image switches from green to or- up his own studio soon after graduating. He also became a ange, depending on the viewing angle. Head-on, the image holographer at Light Impressions, and has worked with OpSec is transparent, allowing it to be placed directly over sensitive and Colour Holographics. He is described as ‘one of today’s information. most talented holography artists’ and he strives for purity and The contract was won through an open tender process, clarity in his holograms, which will be seen in this show. and the Signature Protectors will protect an initial 1.4 mil- The exhibition will include a demonstration holographic lion signatures, with every protector being individually and table, with workshop classes for five-year olds and above taught sequentially numbered for added traceability and security. by Pearl John, an experience hologram artist and educator. Commenting on the contract, Jason Cook, Sales Director An intriguing aspect of Pure Holography is that it is being for OpSec South America, said: ‘by combining tamper evi- produced and promoted by John Brown, founder and former dence with high security design features and traceability, the managing director of Light Impressions Europe, who retired risk of signature or document fraud is greatly reduced - pro- from the field after selling the company to OpSec in 2008. He viding the ideal solution for the Registor Civil.’ is, as he put it, ‘going back to the past’. www.opsecsecurity.com www.pureholography.com. www.displayhologram.co.uk.

Reproduction of Holography News is an illegal infringement of Reconnaissance International’s copyright page 4 Corporate News Holoptica’s Rapid Expansion Holoptica, the California embossed The first large order for HoloQR hologram producer set up in February was for merchandise protection for the 2012 by Jiri (George) Perkous (see 2015 Rugby World Cup (in England). HN Vol 27 No 4), is experiencing Ron Taylor, is the owner of Austrail- rapid market growth, mainly driven ian company Brand Integrity Pty Ltd, by its HoloQR security hologram label whose customers include domestic which incorporates a unique QR code rugby and cricket tournaments as well for track and trace capability, with as The Americas Cup. Taylor was also DNA taggants as an option. HoloQR involved in securing the licensed mer- is supported by the verifythisnow chandise for the Sidney Olympics, so website, where consumers can enter he has a comprehensive appreciation a serial number or scan the QR code An example of a template or of what is required for major tourn- using a smartphone. standard HoloQR design. ament merchandise control projects. As reported in Holography News® could focus on the dots. HoloQR, for Offices Around the World in April last year, Perkous (who got which Perkous has applied for a Czech Market success has continued, with involved in holography in the Czech and World patent (see box), was intro- the company opening sales offices in Republic with Optaglio and Lightgate) duced last year and is rapidly gaining South Africa, the Czech Republic, established Segment Security in 2011 customers, so that the company will be and the UK, as well as its existing with co-investor Ron Taylor, to pro- expanding its production capacity later operations in the US and Australia. duce microdots, then set up Holoptica this year and is opening offices and It is now looking for an agent or to make holograms so that Segment agencies around the world. sales person to strengthen its team in the US, and is planning to open The HoloQR Patent offices in Canada, South American HoloQR (although that word does not appear in the text) is covered by: and Philippines next year. The group – including Segment Security – now CZ20070874 and WO2009074122 (A2): Security element with static has around 55 staff. identification pattern, particularly for protecting objects and documents Perkous attributes this success to Priority Date: 20071213 the quality and characteristics of the Inventors: Fiala Pavel, Ekeren Marek, Najdek David, Jiri Perkous, Repta product, as it combines overt security, Jaroslav covert security (the taggants, provided by DNA Technologies Australia, Applicant: All In Security another of Taylor’s companies) and Abstract: tracking, with ease of consumer use, The solution refers to the protective element with static identification pattern, namely for protection and the way the company makes of subjects and documents where the identification pattern 2 remains static at turning of the protected ordering its holograms, including subject along the axle 3 perpendicular to the level of protective element 1, and is characterised by HoloQR, straightforward through its a fact that each image dot (4) of observed identification pattern (2) generated by the protective element (1) is created by the original group (5) of micropoints of which at least one or more website. This offers several different micropoints (6) of the original micropoint group (5) is contributing to the image dot (4), while at ‘standard’ HoloQR designs, which turning of the protective element (1) around the axle (3) perpendicular to the level of the protective can be customised and varied, with element (1) the given image dot (4) of identification pattern (2) is created, subject to relation ?x = r the customer’s requirements for the ?a, by turned group (7) of micropoints,; while again at least one or more micropoints of the turned group of micropoint (7) is contributing into observer’s eye by the same information as one or more serialisation specified via the website. micropoints (6) of original group of micropoints (5) do. Some micropoints (6) are alternatively The site gives up-front pricing for created by the micrograting diffracting the incident light into selected direction subject to grating various order quantity and sizes, with equation (M). The protective element according to the solution is dedicated mainly to the verification prices for additional requirements – of the origin of the subjects and documents by the visual checking, where the watched identification pattern remains static in its original position even under rotation of the pretected subject or document. from colour overprinting to additional covert lacquers. Claims: Holoptica designs holograms with There are five claims, of which the head claim is: space for the code in the hologram, The protective element with static identification pattern, namely for protection of subjects and then in production creates the serial documents where the identification pattern (2) remains static at turning of the protected subject number for each item, generating the along the axle (3) perpendicular to the level of protective element (1), and is characterised by QR code and adding this to the ho- a fact that each image dot (4) of observed identification pattern (2) generated by the protective logram by laser or print. It loads the element (1) is created by the original group (5) of micropoints of which at least one (6) of the original micropoint group (5) is contributing to the image dot (4), while at turning of the protective codes to verifythisnow.com, which element (1) round the axle (3) perpendicular to the level of the protective element (1) the given can be customised to reflect a cus- image dot (4) of identification pattern (2) is created subject to relation [Delta]x = r- [Delta][alpha] tomer’s branding, so that when an end by turned group (7) of micropoints, while again at least one or more micropoints of the turned customer users a scanner or smart- group of micropoint (7) is contributing into observer’s eye by the same information as one or more micropoints (6) of original group of micropoints (5) do. phone to read the code, it links to the Continued on page 8

Reproduction of Holography News is an illegal infringement of Reconnaissance International’s copyright HOLOGRAPHY News Volume 28 - No 3 - March 2014 page 5 International Standards ISO Holography Characterisation Standards for National Consultation The International Standards Organiza- ings, but often confused by variance in The proposal does offer a method ap- tion (ISO) has drafted two related stan- its definition. The proposed standard propriate to many other products and dards to give some consistency to the makes clear the definition of absolute applications. measurement of key characteristics of and relative diffraction efficiency and Exposure Characteristics transmission and reflection holograms, describes clear methods for their mea- The Part 2 standard covers the ex- in particular their diffraction efficien- surement. The proposal makes clear posure characteristics for the recording cy. These standards were proposed by the standard is appropriate for clas- of the hologram, specifically the expo- the Japanese Standards Body from an sical two beam holography and also sure characteristic curve, exposure at original proposal drafted by Prof Hiro- direct write e-beam generated holo- half-maximum, R-value, and the am- shi Yoshikawa of the OptoElectronics grams, i.e. sinusoidal or binary grat- plitude of refractive index modulation. Lab at Nihon University for HODIC, ings/fringes. As with all ISO standards, a key part is the Japanese holographers’ society. Another characteristic of a holo- the definition of terms used in the stan- They have been drafted by ISO Tech- gram or holographic grating to be dard, so these terms are defined within nical Committee 172, which covers measured is the ability to split light 17901-2, but it also refers to the defini- standards for electro-optical systems. into its spectral colours. The spectral tions and processes given in Part 1. It Sub-Committee 9 has been the draft- distribution can be used to measure the then goes on to specify the exposure ing group for these standards. diffraction efficiency and is also de- conditions necessary in order to pro- The two proposed standards are ISO scribed. The power to diffract (bend) vide consistent measurements, cover- 17901-1 - Holography - Part 1: Meth- the light is known as angular selec- ing the exposure geometry (giving lay- ods of measuring diffraction efficiency tivity and this characteristic and the outs, for transmission and reflection and associated optical characteristic wavelength selectivity are also defined holograms), dark room requirements of holograms, and Part 2, titled Meth- and measured. and the x-y-z co-ordinates. ods for measurement of hologram re- It should be made clear that the Having established the exposure cording characteristics. measurement methods described as- characteristics, the standard then de- Prof Yoshikawa gave a descrip- sume the area under analysis is a uni- scribes the methods for measuring the tion and explanation of his rationale form grating pattern, meaning that various defined characteristics, again for the standards at the IHMA Annual the grating/ fringe spacing is uniform specifying different geometries for General Meeting in 2009. The IHMA as a plane wave or non-plane wave. transmission and reflection holograms. Board then canvassed members and The method analyses a single grating To ensure the consistency of described considered the proposed standards, (or hologram) element and this point characteristics the standard also pre- concluding that, while the IHMA was became key in the development of the scribes how the measurements shall sympathetic to the motivation to stan- standard. Holograms and diffractive be presented, including a table of the dardise the measurement of hologram images used as anti-counterfeit de- information to be reported to support characteristics, the measurement char- vices are by their nature increasingly the measurement data. This ranges acteristics as proposed were not ap- complex arrays of multiple gratings / from the details of the recording ma- propriate to commercial holograms, holograms. Such devices can vary in terial to the specified details of the particularly surface relief holograms. frequency, depth, curvature, cross-sec- method of measuring the amplitude of However, the Board recognised that tional profile etc. to provide unique vi- the refractive index modulation of the there was momentum behind the pro- sual effects that cannot be easily repli- hologram. posal and it did have merit for some cated by counterfeiters. This point was Participant Countries types of hologram. It therefore sought raised under comments by more than This proposal (1 & 2) is now a Draft representation on the ISO committee one country and the author revised International Standard (DIS) for dis- working on these standards, to endeav- the scope of the proposed standard cussion and comment by the national our to ensure that they did not contain accordingly. An addition to the scope standards bodies. anything that could work negatively was included to read: These standards can be download- for commercial hologram producers. Practical value of the diffraction ed from the ISO website and they are Outline of the Standards efficiency is obtained only when the now open for comment. However, The intention of the Part 1 standard hologram gives simple diffraction pat- any comments you have on the draft is to establish the terms by which to terns, which means the reconstructed must be directed through your national characterise transmission and reflec- wave can be clearly separated from standards body, and a list of those par- tion holograms and a method to mea- other diffracted and non-diffracted ticipating in Sub-Committee 9 can be sure these characteristics. The main waves. This implies that this standard found on the ISO website. characteristic is the diffraction effi- / method is not appropriate to many ciency which is a term widely used in or the majority of holograms used for www.ISO.org the optical industry to measure grat- anti-counterfeit security applications.

Reproduction of Holography News is an illegal infringement of Reconnaissance International’s copyright page 6 Stockwatch Markets All Fall on Ukraine Uncertainty World markets are affected by political and economic problems and during this last month we have seen all markets fall as the crisis in Ukraine deepened and the West’s relationship with Russia deteriorated over the sovereignty of the Crimea. The outcome looks set to be sanctions by the USA and Europe against Russia, so Russia will retaliate, and trade between the two blocks will suffer. Hence, the fall in the markets – mostly 2 to 3% in the USA and Europe but larger in China with the FTSE Xinhau 200 falling 6.5% but the Hang Seng only 3.5%. Despite these falls, three of the six companies we cover gained value this period. De La Rue Improves Despite CEO’s Resignation The CEO of De La Rue handed in his resignation this period - not because of the company’s performance, which will most likely be £10m short of the £100m operating profit forecast, but because he was taking up another job. In fact, under CEO Tim Cobbold’s management, the company has significantly improved its performance and his departure could have resulted in uncertainty and the share price falling. As it happened the impact was muted and the share price followed the market trends for the most part and actually finished up 14.5p at 793p, just under 2% ahead in the period. At this price the company’s three months it has underperformed its for well over a year now and many PE is 21.5, and in the last three and market by 2.0% but, in contrast, has of the changes have not been small twelve month periods the company has outperformed its market by 29% in the increments in percentage terms. This underperformed its market by 11% and last 12 months. monthly period was no exception, nor 15.5% respectively. K Laser’s Sales Down on 2013 was the last. It fell 32% last period and OpSec’s Value Unchanged K Laser’s January sales were 11.6% this period it fell by 23.5% to 26 cents, OpSec’s share price fell sharply down on January 2013, and they fell a 48% decline in two months. This this period from 40.5p to 35.5p, a fall again in February – this time by 9.8% reduced its market value from $9.4m to of 12.3% which reduced its market bringing the deficit for the first two $7.2m. In the last three months it has value by £4m to £28.4m. Its recent months compared with last year to underperformed its market by 40% but share price decline started with a 12% 10.8%. Despite these latest figures, K in the twelve months it remains ahead fall from 49.5p to 43p just prior to Laser’s share price increased by 4.5% by 55%. Christmas followed by a 7% decline in the month to TW$18.55, which is Nanotech at the end of January and now to its 38% higher than a year ago. We reported Nonatech in Stock- current value. There have been no Svg Optronics Falls Again watch for the first time last month and announcements or news releases since Svg Optronics Co. fell back 2.4% gave some background (see HN No the Interim statement that provide any last month after three months of gains 27, Vol. 2). The company started 2014 reasons for the decline. In the last three totalling 18.25%. It fell again this month with a share price of C$1.75 and, after and twelve month periods OpSec has – by 6.8%. It issued a forecast in January falling 12% to C$1.54 in January. it underperformed its market by 28% and stating that its net profit for 2013 would regained most of that loss in the period. 20.5% respectively. be between 35 and 65% below that of At a share price of C$1.74 its market API Stable 2012, which is undoubtedly the reason value is currently C$67.5m. In the last API’s share price gained 3.4% this for the decline. three months it has underperformed its month to 76p, increasing its market Shiner Loses Value market by 10% but over the 12 month value by £1.8m to £58.2m. In the last Shiner share price has been volatile period it has outperformed it by 109%.

Reproduction of Holography News is an illegal infringement of Reconnaissance International’s copyright HOLOGRAPHY News Volume 28 - No 3 - March 2014 page 7 Conferences Holography Conferences Call for Papers The Holography Conference and lighted topics for papers include: En- pack•Holo-print®) topics of interest HoloExpo, the global and the Russo- gineering and technology in the field for The Holography Conference in- phile holography conference respec- of security holograms; Imaging and clude all aspects of innovation, devel- tively, have issued their calls for papers display information using holographic opment and application of holograms for this year’s events, both of which optics; Graphic holography and pho- and holographic techniques. Subjects take place in the autumn. HoloExpo tosensitive materials for holo-graphy; likely to be of particular interest to takes place in Sochi, September 16-17 Holographic and diffractive optical conference participants include cus- 2014, with a visit to the Sochi Winter elements, methods of com-puter syn- tomer case-studies and attitudes to- Olympic facilities on September thesis technology of their manufacture wards security holograms, packaging 18, while The Holography Confer- and use; Holographic interferometry materials and HOEs, as well as reports ence takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, and Technology of holograms for sci- from researchers and manufacturers December 3-5. entific and technical research, and on their latest developments in these HoloExpo, with Russian/English/ Optical-holographic memory systems, and related subjects. Recent announce- Russian simultaneous translation, optical information processing and ho- ments about real-time holographic aims to discuss the latest scientific lographic filters. visualisation, micro- and nano-optics, and technological developments and Abstracts for proposed papers photopolymer and colour display holo- technologies in the field of hologra- should be submitted by June 30th, com- grams suggest these would also make phy in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other prising up to 10 pages in Russian or valuable contributions to the confer- CIS countries and elsewhere, as well three pages in English. ence. as market assessments, holographic The Holography Conference In addition to papers on the latest technologies and products and their In line with the new name for the in holography, delegates will be inter- development. More specifically, high- conference (it was formerly Holo- ested to hear about competing or dis- ruptive technologies and how these are 10 YEARS AGO or might impact the markets for holo- Nanoventions Unveils Micro-Optical Film grams and holographic products. In March 2004 Holography News® reported that Nanoventions, a new company To submit a proposal for a , in Atlanta, USA, had shown at the Optical Document Security conference a please send an abstract of around 200 new ultra-thin security film, called Unison, which appears to have exceptional words to Reconnaissance International depth and can present a number of different visual effects, including three- ([email protected]), with dimensionality and movement. According to the company the film had been information about you and your organ- developed as a replacement for holograms. isation. The film contains high-precision multi-element micro-optic systems to create Registration Opens April 7 the floating images in the film, which appear to move within, under, or over the Registration for The Holography print. It has more than one billion micro-optic systems per square meter. A Continued on page 8 complete image is typically formed by hundreds of thousands of micro-optic systems acting in unison, hence the name. Diary A typical Unison film presents synthetic images at a resolution of greater EXHIBITIONS, than 800 dpi. Each micro lens is about 30 microns in diameter. The original CONFERENCES and images are printed at a resolution of greater than 100,000 dpi, and the Unison MEETINGS optics magnify them by as much as 1,500 times. Another Unison effect, called Motion, presents graphics that move in the perpendicular direction to how you Banknote 2014 tilt the film - if tilted up, the graphics move side-to-side; if tilted to the side, April 7 - 10 Washington, DC then the graphics move up-and-down. It can be seen in all lighting conditions www.banknoteconference.com and can be created as a two-sided film that shows a totally different image Interpack or graphical effect from each side. And the visual effects are independent of May 8 - 14 illumination angle and lighting conditions. Düsseldorf, Germany www.messe-duesseldorf.de 20 YEARS AGO Security Document World Polaroid’s Future Vision June 16 - 18 In March 1994, Polaroid’s Holography Division launched reflection image London, UK www.sciencemediapartners.com hologram stickers made on its Mirage® holographic photopolymer in to the retail market, under the name Future Vision. The holograms were distributed June 19 – 20 3rd Laser Display Conference through the company’s worldwide sales force with a retail price of $2.49 per Hsinchu, Taiwan pack in the USA, a price-point suitable for drug stores, chain stores and toy ldc.nchu.edu.tw/ shops. Polaroid planned to supply retail display units. July 13-17 There were eight images in the first series, including a dinosaur, Pegasus and Digital Holography & 3-D Imaging an earth globe, in sizes from 1½ to 3¼ inches square. The stickers were aimed Seattle, USA at 6-12 year-olds and Polaroid was hoping for sales of $13m annually. http://www.osa.org

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