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Tribute to Prof. Emmett Leith 2-3

Face to Face 4-5

Technology 6-7

Obituary 7

Know your member 8

Counterfeiting 2007 A Year of... 9-10

Industry Updates 11-15

By Professor Kim Winick

Interview with Mr. Hugues Souparis (Hologram Industries)

"Smart" holograms help patients help themselves

Interview with Mr. Shobhit Arora (Giriraj Foils Pvt. Ltd.)

By Mr. Peter Lowe

News Bytes • Tenders • Events & Conferences • Patents in Holography

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Prof. Emmett LeithThe Man behind 3D Holography

Emmett Leith is recognized today as one of a handful of key innovators in the subject thatbecame holography. He can be remembered for distinct accomplishments andattributes. During the 1950s, Leith played a crucial role in synthesizing a new subjectfrom previously quite separate ones. During the early 1960s he dramatically extendedthe possibilities of wave front reconstruction and, with equal modesty, publicized them.His ideas and competence inspired a generation of colleagues at Willow RunLaboratories, many of whom went on to contribute to the modern subject, art andbusiness of holography, and he displayed an uncommon coherence in his ownintellectual interests, although his own career mutated from classified work, topopularization, and to an academic role. Emmett Leith a scientist who took the conceptof the hologram and added technology of the laser to create three-dimensionalphotography. Professor Leith and his co-worker Juris Upatnieks invented the three-dimensional holography. Dr. Leith received the National Medal of Science for hisresearch from President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Holography Times second issue is atribute to Professor Emmett Leith a pioneer in the development of 3D holography.

Dr. Emmett N. Leith(1927-2005)

Emmett was born in Detroit,Michigan, on March 12, 1927,and received all three of his

degrees, B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in physics,from Wayne State University, in 1949,1952, and 1978, respectively. He spenthis entire 50-year professional career atthe University of Michigan. He was firstemployed as a research assistant(1952–1956) and then promoted to aresearch associate (1956–1960) atWillow Run Laboratories (WRL). In1960, his research group at WRL wasmoved to the University of MichiganInstitute of Science and Technologywhere he became a research engineer.He was appointed an associate professorof electrical engineering in 1965 andpromoted to full professor in 1968.

Emmett’s seminal contributions tosynthetic-aperture radar (SAR), opticalsignal processing, and holography, weremade mostly during a 12-year periodfrom 1952 to 1964. In 1951, C. Wiley ofthe Goodyear Corporation hadsuggested that data collected from asmall moving antenna could be used tosynthesize a receiving antenna with amuch larger effective aperture, thusincreasing its spatial resolution.Because of the large amount of datacollected from these radars, known asSARs, neither data storage norsubsequent signal processing could beperformed with the electronicequipment available at the time.

Cutrona and Vivian at WRL (following adiscussion with Russel Varian)conceived the idea of the opticalprocessing of SAR data that had beenstored on film.

Beginning in 1954, Emmett worked withCutrona and Vivian to investigate opticalprocessing using incoherent light. In1955, he and Porcello spent severalmonths studying opticalcorrelators for SAR processingbased on both incoherent andcoherent light. BetweenOctober 1955 and April 1956,Emmett recast the theory of acoherent optical correlator int e r m s o f w a v e - f r o n treconstruction, basically aho log raph i c app roach .Emmett considered this hismost significantwork.

At the time Emmett was working onradar, the material was classified, so thedetails did not begin to appear in theopen literature until the mid-1960s.Emmett’s holographic SAR theory,along with an analysis of the technique,appeared as an internal WRL memodated May 22, 1956. Five months later,Emmett became aware of earlier workby Dennis Gabor on wave-frontreconstruction for use in electronmicroscopy, for which Gabor was laterawarded the Nobel Prize (1971).Emmett described his reaction to

discovering Gabor’s work:

Emmett’s idea for SAR processing basedon wave-front reconstruction had initiallybeen met with indifference from the SARcommunity and had languished for abouttwo years after it was developed. In 1957,WRL used optical processing to producethe first high-quality SAR images, and, by1 9 5 9 , E m m e t t ’s w a v e - f r o n t -reconstruction formulation had becomethe dominant method of opticalprocessingofSARdata.

Emmett subsequently suggested manyimportant modifications to the basic

“My feelingswere mixed; there was somedisappointment that the principles ofwave-front reconstruction had alreadybeen invented, although in a whollydifferent context. This feeling wasbalanced with the knowledge that theconcept of wave-front reconstructionwas significant enough to have beenpublished in the scientific literature.”

optical-processingschemethat ledtomajorimprovements in radar performance.These mod i f i c a t i ons inc ludedsimultaneous pulse compression and beamsharpening and the introduction (withKozma and Massey) of a tilted-planeoptical processor. The processing of SARdata by optical means remained themainstay of the radar community until wellinto the 1980s when advances in electroniccomputing became available. Gabor’sconcept of wave-front reconstruction hada number of serious deficiencies. Inpart icular, i t only worked forreconstructing transparencies, and eventhen the quality of the reconstruction waslimited by the presence of overlappingtwin images. Between 1956 and 1960,Emmett pondered the solution to the twin-image problem even as he continued toworkonSAR.

When Juris Upatnieks joined the Radarand Optics Group at the University ofMichigan in 1960, he and Emmett beganworking together on the twin-imageproblem, which, based on theirexperience with SAR, they recognized asa problem of aliasing. They developedthe off-axis approach to obviate the twin-

image problem and explained theirmethod in terms of communicationtheory—AM carrier modulation,frequency spectrum, side-band filtering,etc. They demonstrated their off-axistechnique by making high-qualityholograms ofgrey-scale transparencies.

Late in 1963, Emmett and Upatnieksintroduced the technique of diffuseillumination to demonstrate the firsthigh-quality holograms of three-dimensional objects. In Emmett’s ownwords:

When they presented their resultspublicly at the Annual Optical Societyof America Meeting in the spring of1964, they created quite a sensation.

Emmett Leith was elected to the

National Academy of Engineering in1982. In addition to this honor, hereceived many awards, including theNational Medal of Science (1979), theIEEE Morris Liebmann MemorialAward (1968), the Stuart BallantineMedal of the Franklin Institute (1969),the R.W. Wood Prize of the OpticalSociety of America (1975), the FredericIves Medal of the Optical Society ofAmerica (1985), and the Gold Medal ofthe SPIE (1990). Emmett supervised theresearch of 43 Ph.D. students atMichigan, and he regularly taught avariety of courses on basic optics andoptical signal processing.

E m m e t t ’s w o r k o n S A R a n dho log raphy had an enormoustechnical impact and was a majordriving force in shaping the field ofoptical signal processing. In additionto his educational and scientificcontributions, his work spurred manycommercial applications that nowcomprise a multi-billion dollarindustry. Emmett, a humble individualby nature, loved his work andremained active in his field until thetime of his death.

“We … found that the imagesformed from such hologramsproduced startling images, fully 3-D,without the need for viewing withspecial glasses, and had all of theusual properties of actual objects,including full parallax. One couldmove one’s head and peer ehindobscuring structures to see whatwas hidden behind, just as if onewere viewing the actual objects.”

Optical Processor at Willow Run (C. 1960)

By Professor Kim WinickUniversity of Michigan

EECS Dept., Univ. of Michigan Tel: 734-764-520,Ffax: 734-763-8041Email: [email protected]

A W A R D M E M B E R & H O N O R S

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award in 1960

IEEE Morris Liebmann Memorial Award (1968)

Ballantine Medal (1969)

National Medal of Science in 1979 ·

Member National Academy of Engineering (1982)

The Herbert Ives Medal of OSA in 1985

The Gold Medal of SPIE

The Progress Medal of the Royal PhotographicSociety of Britain

Doctor of Science degree from University of Aberdeen

Fellow of IEEE, SPIE and the Optical Society ofAmerica

Honorary member of the Engineering Society(Detroit)

Member: National Academy of Engineering.

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Prof. Emmett LeithThe Man behind 3D Holography

Emmett Leith is recognized today as one of a handful of key innovators in the subject thatbecame holography. He can be remembered for distinct accomplishments andattributes. During the 1950s, Leith played a crucial role in synthesizing a new subjectfrom previously quite separate ones. During the early 1960s he dramatically extendedthe possibilities of wave front reconstruction and, with equal modesty, publicized them.His ideas and competence inspired a generation of colleagues at Willow RunLaboratories, many of whom went on to contribute to the modern subject, art andbusiness of holography, and he displayed an uncommon coherence in his ownintellectual interests, although his own career mutated from classified work, topopularization, and to an academic role. Emmett Leith a scientist who took the conceptof the hologram and added technology of the laser to create three-dimensionalphotography. Professor Leith and his co-worker Juris Upatnieks invented the three-dimensional holography. Dr. Leith received the National Medal of Science for hisresearch from President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Holography Times second issue is atribute to Professor Emmett Leith a pioneer in the development of 3D holography.

Dr. Emmett N. Leith(1927-2005)

Emmett was born in Detroit,Michigan, on March 12, 1927,and received all three of his

degrees, B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in physics,from Wayne State University, in 1949,1952, and 1978, respectively. He spenthis entire 50-year professional career atthe University of Michigan. He was firstemployed as a research assistant(1952–1956) and then promoted to aresearch associate (1956–1960) atWillow Run Laboratories (WRL). In1960, his research group at WRL wasmoved to the University of MichiganInstitute of Science and Technologywhere he became a research engineer.He was appointed an associate professorof electrical engineering in 1965 andpromoted to full professor in 1968.

Emmett’s seminal contributions tosynthetic-aperture radar (SAR), opticalsignal processing, and holography, weremade mostly during a 12-year periodfrom 1952 to 1964. In 1951, C. Wiley ofthe Goodyear Corporation hadsuggested that data collected from asmall moving antenna could be used tosynthesize a receiving antenna with amuch larger effective aperture, thusincreasing its spatial resolution.Because of the large amount of datacollected from these radars, known asSARs, neither data storage norsubsequent signal processing could beperformed with the electronicequipment available at the time.

Cutrona and Vivian at WRL (following adiscussion with Russel Varian)conceived the idea of the opticalprocessing of SAR data that had beenstored on film.

Beginning in 1954, Emmett worked withCutrona and Vivian to investigate opticalprocessing using incoherent light. In1955, he and Porcello spent severalmonths studying opticalcorrelators for SAR processingbased on both incoherent andcoherent light. BetweenOctober 1955 and April 1956,Emmett recast the theory of acoherent optical correlator int e r m s o f w a v e - f r o n treconstruction, basically aho log raph i c app roach .Emmett considered this hismost significantwork.

At the time Emmett was working onradar, the material was classified, so thedetails did not begin to appear in theopen literature until the mid-1960s.Emmett’s holographic SAR theory,along with an analysis of the technique,appeared as an internal WRL memodated May 22, 1956. Five months later,Emmett became aware of earlier workby Dennis Gabor on wave-frontreconstruction for use in electronmicroscopy, for which Gabor was laterawarded the Nobel Prize (1971).Emmett described his reaction to

discovering Gabor’s work:

Emmett’s idea for SAR processing basedon wave-front reconstruction had initiallybeen met with indifference from the SARcommunity and had languished for abouttwo years after it was developed. In 1957,WRL used optical processing to producethe first high-quality SAR images, and, by1 9 5 9 , E m m e t t ’s w a v e - f r o n t -reconstruction formulation had becomethe dominant method of opticalprocessing ofSAR data.

Emmett subsequently suggested manyimportant modifications to the basic

“My feelingswere mixed; there was somedisappointment that the principles ofwave-front reconstruction had alreadybeen invented, although in a whollydifferent context. This feeling wasbalanced with the knowledge that theconcept of wave-front reconstructionwas significant enough to have beenpublished in the scientific literature.”

optical-processingschemethat ledtomajorimprovements in radar performance.These mod i f i c a t i ons inc ludedsimultaneous pulse compression and beamsharpening and the introduction (withKozma and Massey) of a tilted-planeoptical processor. The processing of SARdata by optical means remained themainstay of the radar community until wellinto the 1980s when advances in electroniccomputing became available. Gabor’sconcept of wave-front reconstruction hada number of serious deficiencies. Inpart icular, i t only worked forreconstructing transparencies, and eventhen the quality of the reconstruction waslimited by the presence of overlappingtwin images. Between 1956 and 1960,Emmett pondered the solution to the twin-image problem even as he continued towork on SAR.

When Juris Upatnieks joined the Radarand Optics Group at the University ofMichigan in 1960, he and Emmett beganworking together on the twin-imageproblem, which, based on theirexperience with SAR, they recognized asa problem of aliasing. They developedthe off-axis approach to obviate the twin-

image problem and explained theirmethod in terms of communicationtheory—AM carrier modulation,frequency spectrum, side-band filtering,etc. They demonstrated their off-axistechnique by making high-qualityholograms of grey-scale transparencies.

Late in 1963, Emmett and Upatnieksintroduced the technique of diffuseillumination to demonstrate the firsthigh-quality holograms of three-dimensional objects. In Emmett’s ownwords:

When they presented their resultspublicly at the Annual Optical Societyof America Meeting in the spring of1964, they created quite a sensation.

Emmett Leith was elected to the

National Academy of Engineering in1982. In addition to this honor, hereceived many awards, including theNational Medal of Science (1979), theIEEE Morris Liebmann MemorialAward (1968), the Stuart BallantineMedal of the Franklin Institute (1969),the R.W. Wood Prize of the OpticalSociety of America (1975), the FredericIves Medal of the Optical Society ofAmerica (1985), and the Gold Medal ofthe SPIE (1990). Emmett supervised theresearch of 43 Ph.D. students atMichigan, and he regularly taught avariety of courses on basic optics andoptical signal processing.

E m m e t t ’s w o r k o n S A R a n dho log raphy had an enormoustechnical impact and was a majordriving force in shaping the field ofoptical signal processing. In additionto his educational and scientificcontributions, his work spurred manycommercial applications that nowcomprise a multi-billion dollarindustry. Emmett, a humble individualby nature, loved his work andremained active in his field until thetime of his death.

“We … found that the imagesformed from such hologramsproduced startling images, fully 3-D,without the need for viewing withspecial glasses, and had all of theusual properties of actual objects,including full parallax. One couldmove one’s head and peer ehindobscuring structures to see whatwas hidden behind, just as if onewere viewing the actual objects.”

Optical Processor at Willow Run (C. 1960)

By Professor Kim WinickUniversity of Michigan

EECS Dept., Univ. of Michigan Tel: 734-764-520,Ffax: 734-763-8041Email: [email protected]

A W A R D M E M B E R & H O N O R S

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award in 1960

IEEE Morris Liebmann Memorial Award (1968)

Ballantine Medal (1969)

National Medal of Science in 1979 ·

Member National Academy of Engineering (1982)

The Herbert Ives Medal of OSA in 1985

The Gold Medal of SPIE

The Progress Medal of the Royal PhotographicSociety of Britain

Doctor of Science degree from University of Aberdeen

Fellow of IEEE, SPIE and the Optical Society ofAmerica

Honorary member of the Engineering Society(Detroit)

Member: National Academy of Engineering.

Face to Face The Holography Times


Interview with

How was Hologram Industries

established?

What were the problems you faced

in your earlier stage and how you

overcome them?What are the key features that

make HI so successful?

We also invest in communicating

with our customers, trying to

explain what we are doing, why we

are doing is the interesting & why

it is secure?

Security, Innovation and Quality!

What are the milestones achieved

by Hologram Industries in last 23

years?

“HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIES”

Well this is a long story. I startedHologram Industries in 1984. Thatwas my second hologram company. Icreated the first hologram company in1981. The name of the first companywas Media Laser. Media Laser wasdedicated to silver-halide hologram.But at that time the market was littlebit difficult so I have to stop it as weare not making any revenue out of thesilver halide hologram. Then I stopholography for two years from 1982 to1984. In 1984 I created HologramIndustries with the goal to make bothsilver halide hologram and embossedholograms. Our first two year ofactivities was focus only on displayhologram. Then we make silver halidehologram up to 1 mm square. We makehologram, stereogram, animatedstereogram and whatever, slowly byslowly we went into embossing and in1989 we began to work into securitybusiness. From 1993 we stop makingdisplay holography because of thattime the communicating business wasslowing down. So I decided in 1993 toconcentrate on security & since thenHologram Industries is totally focusedon security.

Lot 's of problems of course.Obviously technological problems

in the beginning of 80's, when Istarted holography you could notbuy any technology. You have todevelop everything yourself. I wasmyself in the holographic labdeveloping the holographic table,all the process start ing fromscratch. Even after when I begin inembossed holography we have todevelop our own technology.Obviously it was difficult fromfinancial side, as I am not from arich family. I had no much moneyto invest. So I had to start with verylittle money. Again we had todevelop lot of things ourselves alsobecause we don't have money tobuy. The third was commercial. Atthe beginning holograms were notvery well known and it was neverthe case customer came himself.Always we had to go see theProspects customers and informthem about the hologram. Nobodywas that time known what thehologram is and sometimes theywere not heard the name ofhologram. So it was some difficultperiod. Also because I was at thattime, now we have the companywhich is larger because I couldstart with really nothing. Now daysi t i s more di ff icu l t to s ta r tholography with nothing.

I think we always try to do our best.We always invested a lot in R & D.

Basically I think that innovation &quality are the two key elements,and also now I can say Innovation,Quality & Security are the threeelements as we are also operating invery secure environment . Wealways have been extremely carefulabout the security of our premises &the security of the procedures.

First it was the beginning ofin

1984. Af ter i t was the f i r s tinvolvement in to security in 1989,then the decision to concentrate allour activities on security in 1993.Then in 1998 we put the companypublic & then in the same year wew e r e a l s o s e l e c t e d b y t h eEUROPEAN CENTRAL BANKAGENCY for the origination of theEuro bank note. This was the firstsignificant recognit ion of thetechnology that we had developed.And then in 2003 when we began tomarket the DID® feature which ofcourse is a great technology. So farwe are the only company offering thevery high security feature like this.

Mr. Hugues Souparis

What do you think about the role of

IHMAin promoting the holography?

Ian

(General Secretary of IHMA)

I think in a young

industry like holography it has

been extremely interesting to bring

from beginning all the people

together and have a common

understanding of what we have in

hand, what we can do and how we

have to perfect in order to keep this

technology the attitude of high tech

and secure technology.

How do you see the Indian market and

hologramcompanies developing?

What do you think that Indian

companies need to do be successful

in European Market?

What are the new developments

Holograms Industries doing and

the future plans for next five years?

What is your budget for R & D?

As a global leader in holography

where do you think the future of

holography?

IHMA did play a great role, notdirectly in promoting holographybecause it is a too smaller organizationto be capable to promote thattechnology worldwide. NeverthelessIHMA was very instrumental.

bringing together on the internationallevel all the technical and commercialactor of holography and I thinks that itwas extremely successful in giving toour industry some ethics, giving ourindustry some standard (not technicalstandard), but of course standard ofbehaviours. It is because of IHMA thatworldwide companies are known toeach other.

I know little bit of market aboutIndia. I visited to India several timesfor my own business. When I was thepresident of IHMA, often I have tomeet a lot of Indian companies. Ithink that the Holography industry inIndia is very strong and wellorganized. Several Indian companiesare capable of doing quality business& they are concern about the interestof the technology for India. India didvery well. I think again the fact thatHoMAI presence in India brings toIndian industry much better organize& much safer organization.

Like for example; in china wherethere is no such organization andthere all companies are working all

around without a good structure &organization. I think India is anexample for quite a lot of world inholography. I think that HoMAI is avery stronger organization.

Well that I will not tell you(Laughing). I don't want to have toomany Indian companies coming tocompete with us in Europe. I thinkthat not specific to Europe, it'sspecific to be in Industry general.India companies have to be verymuch oriented in quality. Obviouslyit was the first attempt that we areseeing from Indian companies toattack the European Market. I do notbelieve this will be very successful,because what European market isrequiring (I am talking only aboutsecurity market) very high securityproduct and the future will be onproducts which are really bringingvery high security. If people are onlyselling regular metallised animatedh o l o g r a m , t h i s w i l l b e n o tconsidering any more as highsecurity product. The Opticaltechnology can bring much more.

What I am seeing from in India so far ismainly Industry leader in India, theyknow how to make embossedhologram, how to number it etc. So far Ihave not seen any developments in R &D in Indian those companies in opticaltechnology. Most of the origination inIndia is using standard equipments,either dot-matrix or other type of tabletop equipments or the e-beam Master ispurchasing from outside. Its verystandard holography and I did notbelieve that this type of holography hasa chance to be successful in rest of theworld, because more and more securitydevices will be sophisticated thanpurely hologram labels.

We have lot of development in pipe.I cannot reveal the developmentbefore they are launched obviously.We are developing both in ID sideand in Brand Protection. We aredeveloping new products, verydifferent that industry has not seenso far. . So we have complete newgene ra t ion of p roduc t unde rdevelopment which we will launchin 2 & 3 years. We are spending lotm o r e m o n e y i n R & D .HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIES wasalways known for R & D. From thisyear we are doubling it beforeit was.

My budget for R & D is 7 % of myturnover. Now we have increased thebudget to 15 % because turnover isincreasing higher but definitely itwill be 10 % of budget.

As I said the future of holography iswithout hologram. I well be verymore precise and proactive. If welook at the hologram it is a metallicrainbow and I believe that this is notenough secure, any one can makehologram with little effort. Ibelieve that there is a lot of future inoptical security for overt, semicovert and overt technology but Ibe l i eve tha t the re i s lo t o finnovation to make, to come in orderto maintain our industry, which isnot for me real holography butoptical security. I think that goingin that direction Optical securitywithout restricting themselves toholography is successful.

The Holography Times Face to Face

Mr. Hugues SOUPARIS is among one of few person who started holography in his earlydays, when world wide people are not familiar with the technology. An Engineer fromacademics he founded Hologram Industries in 1984. He is a founder member & PastPresident of IHMA. Today Hologram Industries is recognized world wide for its expertisein high-security optical components. For more than 20 years Hologram. Industries haveproduced security components among the most resistant to counterfeiting. Their productsare used to protect banknotes such as the Euro, passports in several countries (France,Egypt, Brazil, etc.) and prestigious brand names such as Cartier, Hennessy, Schneiderand Eli Lilly.

DID®- DID is a one-of-its-kind optical security element, very easily identifiable with the naked eye. It

reproduces a design made up of two distinct colored elements made visible by direct reflection of light, and

whose colors are inverted when it is rotated 90° in the plane. It is a zero-order optical microstructure

combined with thin films. DID® elements are machine-readable and extremely difficult to copy.

Technology The Holography Times


Patients with diabetes, cardiacproblems, kidney disorders orhigh blood pressure could

benefit from the development of newhologram technology. The new "smart"holograms, which can detect changesin, for example, blood-glucose levels,should make self-diagnosis muchsimpler, cheaper and more reliable,write Chris Lowe and Cynthia Larbey inFebruary's PhysicsWorld.

Ahologram is a recording of an opticalinterference pattern created when laserlight shone on an object is made tooverlap with a separate beam of lightthat does not pass through the object.When light is shone onto theinterference pattern, a 3D image of theoriginal object is recreated.

Traditional holograms, like those onyour credit card, are stored on photo-sensitive materials and remainunchanged wi th t ime .

however, use materialscalled hydrogels that shrink or swell inresponse to local environmentalconditions. Such holograms cantherefore be used as sensors to detectchemical imbalances in potentiallyfatal situations.

Smart Holograms, a spin-out companyfrom the Institute of Biotechnology atCambridge University, has alreadydeveloped a hand-held syringe to

measure water content in aviation fueltanks necessary because aeroplaneengines are liable to freeze mid-air ifthere is more than 30 parts water tomillion fuel.

The same ability to detect chemicalimbalances could be used by diabetics tocheck their blood-sugar levels; bypatients with kidney disorders to checkon adrenaline levels; by security forcesto detect chemicals like anthrax after aterrorist attack; or, less urgently but withwide applicability, by glazing firms todetect whether water has crept inbetween window panes, something that

Smart

holograms,

"Smart" holograms help

patients help themselves

The Holography Times Technology

At a Glance: Smart holograms

Holograms, which are recordings ofoptical interference patterns, arewidely usedas authentication tagsand in data storage

Most holograms are fixed in aphotosensitive material, but recentlyresearchershave created “smart”holograms by fabricating them inmaterials such ashydrogels that aresens i t i ve to env i ronmen ta lconditions

As hydrogels can swell or contract inresponse to specific physical,chemical orbiological agents, smartholograms can be used asdiagnostic sensors, and oftenhave aclear visual output

Smart Holograms – a firm that wasspun-out from Cambridge Universityin 2004 –has already launched itsfirst product: a sensor that candetect water in airline fuel

One of the biggest potential marketsfor sensor holograms is the field ofmedicaldiagnostics, such asproviding diabetes sufferers with asimple and reliableblood-glucosemonitor

2 Smart holography

In a “smart” hologram, the interference pattern is stored in a material theproperties of which change in response to certain environmentalconditions,thereby altering the properties of the interference pattern and thus theappearance of the hologram itself. An electron microscopeimage (left) shows ahologram of a plane mirror created in a silver-halide emulsion, where theinterference fringes are made up of metallic silverparticles (about 20nm indiameter) distributed within the 5–10μm thickness of the smart polymer. Thefringes are approximately parallel to thehologram surface, much like the pagesof a closed book, and together act as a Bragg diffraction grating, which underwhite-light illuminationreflects a specific narrow band of wavelengths andrecreates a monochromatic image of the original plane mirror (or any otherobject used duringhologram recording). Constructive interference betweenpartial reflections from each fringe plane gives a characteristic spectral peakwith awavelength approximately governed by Bragg’s law: mλ=2ndsinθ, wheremis the diffraction order, λis the wavelength of light, nis the averagerefractiveindex of the thin-film system, dis the spacing between the fringes and θis theglancing angle between the propagation direction of theincident light and thediffracting planes. Any physical, chemical or biological stimulus that changes d,nor the total number of the fringes containedwithin the film thickness willgenerate observable changes in the wavelength (colour) or intensity(brightness) of the reflection hologram.

cancause long-termstructuraldamage.Since the Nobel-prize-winningphysicist Dennis Gabor first unveiledtheir underlying principles, hologramshave become widely used asauthentication tags to deter copying,and on credit cards, passports,banknotes. They also underpin thetechnology of supermarket scannersand CD players.

As Chris Lowe and Cynthia Larbeywrite, “Visual images produced bysmart holograms can be made toappear or disappear under appropriate

chemical or biological stimuli whichmakes them ideal for use inBreathalysers, monitoring heartconditions and for various securityand smart packaging systems.”

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Harriet Cadin Siver (1925-2008) passed away unexpectedly of pneumoniaon Monday, March 10, 2008. Harriet was truly a world pioneer in the artholography.

Harriet Casdin-Silver was perhaps the world's leading exponent ofholography, having developed technical skills and aesthetic applicationsunparalleled in the field. Harriet Casdin-Silver was a pioneer of artholography in the United States and was an important figure in thedevelopment of installation art and technological art in the 1960s. Casdin-Silver's work was internationally recognized and has been exhibited for over25 years in museums, galleries, and universities through the Americas,Europe, and Asia. Casdin-Silver was the first artist to develop frontal-projection holograms, the first to explore white light transmission multi-colored holograms, and the first to exhibit outdoor, solar-tracked holograms.

May Her Soul Rest in Peace

Harriet Casdin-Silver Dies

The Death ofPioneer inArt Holography

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The Holography Times Counterfeiting

Interview with Mr. Shobhit Arora

How was GFPL established and whatare theproblems faced in initial stage?

What roles do the GFPL play? Whatare the bouquets of products offeredbyGFPL?

What are the key features that makeGFPLso successful company in last 15years?

What are the milestones, achieved byGFPLin last 15 years?

What are new developments GFPL isdoing for hologram industry? Whatwould be your company's main focusin thenext 5 years?

GFPL was my dream project. In 1993label manufacturers were importingstamping foil from outside India and theyhad to pay very high import duty. Thisencouraged us and we established GFPLin 1993 to produce stamping Foil in India.Withinashortspanof timewewereable toprovideourcustomersgoodqualityof rawmaterials at reasonable price. Theavailability of good quality polyester inIndiaalsoplayedacrucialroleinit.

From 1993 to 1998, I was approached byfew holographers to do similardevelopments for Hologram Industry inIndia. But at that time user group werenot well-established, since every one haddifferent specifications of embossingmachines. We took this is as a challengeand in 1998, started producing tampere v i d e n t f i l m s f o r h o l o g r a mmanufacturers. We continuously workon the theme “Bring us the problem, wecustomize the solution”.

GFPL is amongst one of few companiesto develop Hot Stamping Foil in India.Today GFPL is an ISO 9001:2000company and has emerged as one of theleading player in the films, foils andlaminates segment and has made a greatprogress in improving qualities anddeveloping new types of foils for variousapplications.

GFPL product line includes a vastassortment of metallic silver, gold,copper, bronze, metalised foil,holographic foil and specially coatedfilms. We produce pigmented andmetalised heat transfers foils for a broad

range of hot stamp decoratingapplications and industries. Ourspecialty films and foils come in a wideassortment of vivid solid colors and lightpolished metal appearances. We have 40different customized products in 18different colors.

GFPL strength has been the hard workand fore sightedness of the promotersand their dedicated team, personalizedand customized dealings and rapportwith the Industry stalwarts, zeal for upgradation and finding innovativetechnologies to give customized solutiontoourcustomers.

Our services are designed as per theneed of our customers and the samehave helped us in gaining theconfidence and support from all of theleading hologram manufacturers inIndia. Due to their support and ourefforts, today GFPL has achieved asales turnover of US $ 3 million.

We at GFPL dedicate our growth &achievements to our esteemed &respected Patrons by whose support,guidance & dedication we have reachedthis stage.

GFPL has created a forte in its arenasince its inception and our achievementsspeak volume about our standing in themarket. The first milestone was in 1998when we started producing tamperevident film for hologram industry. In2000 we introduced colored tamper andnon-tamper evident film to the world ofholograms. We had won HoMAI

Excellency awards in 2006 fordeveloping new innovative products forhologram industry. GFPL had also beenawarded four times by the IndianGovernment for excellence in Industry.

Today, GFPL has providing itscustomized solutions to 70% hologrammanufacturers in India, With thecapacity of providing 444.00 metrictonnes film for holograms and stampingfoil and 165.00 metric tonnes flexiblelaminate. We have a market share of80%in tamperevident films in India.

We are very much focusing on qualityand customer satisfaction. With the newpremises we are spending a capitalexpenditure of US $ 1 million forinstalling 4 head coating machine,1slitting machine with web cleaning , UPSsystem fromAROS (Italy),Air HandlingSystem for a tota l dust f reemanufacturing area. We believe in totalquality management and our everyproduct undergoes several quality tests.We are further planning to customize thestamping film.

Our focus for the next 5 years is toconsolidateourposition in thedomesticaswell as in the International market. We arestrengthening our marketing team tounderstand and to work more closely withthe customers. Our total focus will be ondevelopment of new films for makingquality holograms & we have no plans tostart embossing or any other line at ourmanufacturing facilities. Our total focuslies on the film segment of this Securitybase Industry. We are also planning forfew foreign technological tie-ups tofurthermarketourproductsworldwide.

Post Graduate in cost accounting from Agra University, Mr. Shobhit Arora has set upGiriraj Foils Pvt. Ltd.(GFPL) in 1993 in the holy city of VRINDAVAN, the land of LordKrishna. Started with the stamping foil in 1993, GFPL produced tamper evident filmfor hologram industry in 1998. In these 15 years GFPL has emerged as one of theleading players in the manufacturing and distribution of premium grade hot stampingfoil, holographic foils, film's and laminates segment. G

loom, doom and apprehensionpervade the financial marketsas 2007 draws to a close and

pundits make predictions for the NewYear. What though in the world ofcounterfeiting and piracy? In allprobability another good year for thosewho ply this trade, but for enforcers andanti counterfeiting entities, what havebeen the high points been and what liesahead in the coming year?

For those involved in tackling thecounterfeiting phenomenon, the year gotoff to a good start in January with thedeliberationsofTheThirdGlobalCongresson Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy.Hosted by the World Intellectual PropertyOrganisation(WIPO)inGeneva,morethan1200peoplecrammedintotheinternationalconference centre, making it by far thelargest event of its type held in any part ofthe world. Predictably it attracted the greatand the good from all sectors of the anticounterfeiting industry and there wereplenty of rallying cries for more to be donetotackletheproblem,mostnotablyfromtheheads of WIPO, Interpol and the WorldCustomsOrganisation(WCO).Thereweretoo, no shortage of both old and newsuggestions as to how the scourge ofcounterfeiting and piracy could best betackled. Some of the themes coveredincluded enhancing cooperation andcoordination, promoting better legislationand enforcement, building capacity, raisingawareness and health and safety issues.Despite the absence of consumerassociations whose voice was not heard atthis event, the huge numbers attending theGlobal Congress appear to suggest that anticounterfeiting interests worldwide arefinallygettingtogetherandthat thereisnowat last a critical mass of high level figuresacross the world actively engaged on theissueandgrapplingwithpossiblesolutions.

The next Global Congress will behosted by the WCO in Dubai inFebruary 2008. In many ways this is aninspired decision, making it the firsttime that the event has been held

outside Europe and emphasising at thesame time the growing economic andpolitical importance of the Gulf States.No doubt this will provide ano p p o r t u n i t y t o e x a m i n e t h ecounterfeiting and piracy problem as itaffects Middle Eastern markets andperhaps the day is not too far off whenwe will see the Global Congress held ina country where counterfeiting isendemic, such as China, but don'texpect that to happen any time soon.

China always features in any review ofcounterfeiting and piracy quite simplybecause it is by far the largest producerin the world of a whole range of fakep r o d u c t s t h a t a r e c o n s u m e ddomestically and exported globally.

This year China was once again muchin the news in connection with a vastnumber of counterfeiting incidents.Most damaging were the food scaresaffecting a number of differentproducts that form part of China's$30 billion food and drug exporttrade to North America, Asia andEurope each year. Concerns wereraised when tainted Chinese pet foodingredients killed and sickenedthousands of dogs and cats in the USresulting in the largest pet food recallin the country's history.

US regulators also became worried that anumber of Chinese companies weremixing the harmful industrial chemicalmelamine with wheat flour to artificiallyincrease protein readings. Then therewere further damaging revelations abouta deadly cough syrup that caused thedeaths of 100 people in Panama.Investigators discovered that glycerinewhich should have been in the syrup hadbeen substituted in China for the cheaperpoisonous alternative diethylene glycol.As if that was not bad enough, diethyleneglycol was discovered in toothpasteexported from China to Panama, theDominican Republic and Australiawhich in turn triggered a ban by the USFood and Drug Administration onimports of all toothpaste fromChina.

With the safety of Chinese products verymuch in issue throughout the year it wasperhaps unsurprising to that effortswould be made to find individuals toshoulder the blame and demonstrate thatthe government was actively addressingthe situation. Zheng Xiaoyu, China'sformer chief food and drug regulator wascertainly one of the fall guys. Foundguilty of taking bribes to approve the saleof a number of fake drugs, he was swiftlyexecuted. This harsh sentence is astriking reminder of how the Chinesegovernment deal with those who causeharm and damage the country's name andreputation. A scapegoat perhaps, butcertainly one to “encourager les autres”and a signal that even senior officials arenot immune fromjustice.

Measuring the scale of counterfeitinghas always been a hot topic and thekeenly awaited report by the OECD inthe middle of the year was broadlywelcomed by all sections of the anticounterfeiting industry. It representsthe most comprehensive and thoroughinvestigation of the problem everconducted and concluded that theinternational trade in tangiblecounterfeit products could be as muchas $200 billion annually and the total

2007 A Year of Deliberation,

Diethylene and Dogs

PETER LOWEDirector-ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB)

Maritime House, 1 Linton Road, Barking,Essex IG11 8HG, U.K.

Tel: +44 20 8591 3000 Fax: +44 20 8594 2833Website: www.icc-ccs.org

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Interview with Mr. Shobhit Arora

How was GFPL established and whatare theproblems faced in initial stage?

What roles do the GFPL play? Whatare the bouquets of products offeredbyGFPL?

What are the key features that makeGFPLso successful company in last 15years?

What are the milestones, achieved byGFPLin last 15 years?

What are new developments GFPL isdoing for hologram industry? Whatwould be your company's main focusin thenext 5 years?

GFPL was my dream project. In 1993label manufacturers were importingstamping foil from outside India and theyhad to pay very high import duty. Thisencouraged us and we established GFPLin 1993 to produce stamping Foil in India.Withinashortspanof timewewereable toprovideourcustomersgoodqualityof rawmaterials at reasonable price. Theavailability of good quality polyester inIndiaalsoplayedacrucialroleinit.

From 1993 to 1998, I was approached byfew holographers to do similardevelopments for Hologram Industry inIndia. But at that time user group werenot well-established, since every one haddifferent specifications of embossingmachines. We took this is as a challengeand in 1998, started producing tampere v i d e n t f i l m s f o r h o l o g r a mmanufacturers. We continuously workon the theme “Bring us the problem, wecustomize the solution”.

GFPL is amongst one of few companiesto develop Hot Stamping Foil in India.Today GFPL is an ISO 9001:2000company and has emerged as one of theleading player in the films, foils andlaminates segment and has made a greatprogress in improving qualities anddeveloping new types of foils for variousapplications.

GFPL product line includes a vastassortment of metallic silver, gold,copper, bronze, metalised foil,holographic foil and specially coatedfilms. We produce pigmented andmetalised heat transfers foils for a broad

range of hot stamp decoratingapplications and industries. Ourspecialty films and foils come in a wideassortment of vivid solid colors and lightpolished metal appearances. We have 40different customized products in 18different colors.

GFPL strength has been the hard workand fore sightedness of the promotersand their dedicated team, personalizedand customized dealings and rapportwith the Industry stalwarts, zeal for upgradation and finding innovativetechnologies to give customized solutiontoourcustomers.

Our services are designed as per theneed of our customers and the samehave helped us in gaining theconfidence and support from all of theleading hologram manufacturers inIndia. Due to their support and ourefforts, today GFPL has achieved asales turnover of US $ 3 million.

We at GFPL dedicate our growth &achievements to our esteemed &respected Patrons by whose support,guidance & dedication we have reachedthis stage.

GFPL has created a forte in its arenasince its inception and our achievementsspeak volume about our standing in themarket. The first milestone was in 1998when we started producing tamperevident film for hologram industry. In2000 we introduced colored tamper andnon-tamper evident film to the world ofholograms. We had won HoMAI

Excellency awards in 2006 fordeveloping new innovative products forhologram industry. GFPL had also beenawarded four times by the IndianGovernment for excellence in Industry.

Today, GFPL has providing itscustomized solutions to 70% hologrammanufacturers in India, With thecapacity of providing 444.00 metrictonnes film for holograms and stampingfoil and 165.00 metric tonnes flexiblelaminate. We have a market share of80% in tamper evident films in India.

We are very much focusing on qualityand customer satisfaction. With the newpremises we are spending a capitalexpenditure of US $ 1 million forinstalling 4 head coating machine,1slitting machine with web cleaning , UPSsystem fromAROS (Italy),Air HandlingSystem for a tota l dust f reemanufacturing area. We believe in totalquality management and our everyproduct undergoes several quality tests.We are further planning to customize thestamping film.

Our focus for the next 5 years is toconsolidateourposition in thedomesticaswell as in the International market. We arestrengthening our marketing team tounderstand and to work more closely withthe customers. Our total focus will be ondevelopment of new films for makingquality holograms & we have no plans tostart embossing or any other line at ourmanufacturing facilities. Our total focuslies on the film segment of this Securitybase Industry. We are also planning forfew foreign technological tie-ups tofurthermarketourproductsworldwide.

Post Graduate in cost accounting from Agra University, Mr. Shobhit Arora has set upGiriraj Foils Pvt. Ltd.(GFPL) in 1993 in the holy city of VRINDAVAN, the land of LordKrishna. Started with the stamping foil in 1993, GFPL produced tamper evident filmfor hologram industry in 1998. In these 15 years GFPL has emerged as one of theleading players in the manufacturing and distribution of premium grade hot stampingfoil, holographic foils, film's and laminates segment. G

loom, doom and apprehensionpervade the financial marketsas 2007 draws to a close and

pundits make predictions for the NewYear. What though in the world ofcounterfeiting and piracy? In allprobability another good year for thosewho ply this trade, but for enforcers andanti counterfeiting entities, what havebeen the high points been and what liesahead in the coming year?

For those involved in tackling thecounterfeiting phenomenon, the year gotoff to a good start in January with thedeliberationsofTheThirdGlobalCongresson Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy.Hosted by the World Intellectual PropertyOrganisation(WIPO)inGeneva,morethan1200peoplecrammedintotheinternationalconference centre, making it by far thelargest event of its type held in any part ofthe world. Predictably it attracted the greatand the good from all sectors of the anticounterfeiting industry and there wereplenty of rallying cries for more to be donetotackletheproblem,mostnotablyfromtheheads of WIPO, Interpol and the WorldCustomsOrganisation(WCO).Thereweretoo, no shortage of both old and newsuggestions as to how the scourge ofcounterfeiting and piracy could best betackled. Some of the themes coveredincluded enhancing cooperation andcoordination, promoting better legislationand enforcement, building capacity, raisingawareness and health and safety issues.Despite the absence of consumerassociations whose voice was not heard atthis event, the huge numbers attending theGlobal Congress appear to suggest that anticounterfeiting interests worldwide arefinallygettingtogetherandthat thereisnowat last a critical mass of high level figuresacross the world actively engaged on theissueandgrapplingwithpossiblesolutions.

The next Global Congress will behosted by the WCO in Dubai inFebruary 2008. In many ways this is aninspired decision, making it the firsttime that the event has been held

outside Europe and emphasising at thesame time the growing economic andpolitical importance of the Gulf States.No doubt this will provide ano p p o r t u n i t y t o e x a m i n e t h ecounterfeiting and piracy problem as itaffects Middle Eastern markets andperhaps the day is not too far off whenwe will see the Global Congress held ina country where counterfeiting isendemic, such as China, but don'texpect that to happen any time soon.

China always features in any review ofcounterfeiting and piracy quite simplybecause it is by far the largest producerin the world of a whole range of fakep r o d u c t s t h a t a r e c o n s u m e ddomestically and exported globally.

This year China was once again muchin the news in connection with a vastnumber of counterfeiting incidents.Most damaging were the food scaresaffecting a number of differentproducts that form part of China's$30 billion food and drug exporttrade to North America, Asia andEurope each year. Concerns wereraised when tainted Chinese pet foodingredients killed and sickenedthousands of dogs and cats in the USresulting in the largest pet food recallin the country's history.

US regulators also became worried that anumber of Chinese companies weremixing the harmful industrial chemicalmelamine with wheat flour to artificiallyincrease protein readings. Then therewere further damaging revelations abouta deadly cough syrup that caused thedeaths of 100 people in Panama.Investigators discovered that glycerinewhich should have been in the syrup hadbeen substituted in China for the cheaperpoisonous alternative diethylene glycol.As if that was not bad enough, diethyleneglycol was discovered in toothpasteexported from China to Panama, theDominican Republic and Australiawhich in turn triggered a ban by the USFood and Drug Administration onimports of all toothpaste fromChina.

With the safety of Chinese products verymuch in issue throughout the year it wasperhaps unsurprising to that effortswould be made to find individuals toshoulder the blame and demonstrate thatthe government was actively addressingthe situation. Zheng Xiaoyu, China'sformer chief food and drug regulator wascertainly one of the fall guys. Foundguilty of taking bribes to approve the saleof a number of fake drugs, he was swiftlyexecuted. This harsh sentence is astriking reminder of how the Chinesegovernment deal with those who causeharm and damage the country's name andreputation. A scapegoat perhaps, butcertainly one to “encourager les autres”and a signal that even senior officials arenot immune fromjustice.

Measuring the scale of counterfeitinghas always been a hot topic and thekeenly awaited report by the OECD inthe middle of the year was broadlywelcomed by all sections of the anticounterfeiting industry. It representsthe most comprehensive and thoroughinvestigation of the problem everconducted and concluded that theinternational trade in tangiblecounterfeit products could be as muchas $200 billion annually and the total

2007 A Year of Deliberation,

Diethylene and Dogs

PETER LOWEDirector-ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB)

Maritime House, 1 Linton Road, Barking,Essex IG11 8HG, U.K.

Tel: +44 20 8591 3000 Fax: +44 20 8594 2833Website: www.icc-ccs.org


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magnitude could be several hundredbillion dollars more when counterfeitand pirated products sold over theinternet and those produced and solddomestically are included. This isprobably not out of line with the figureof $600 billion which our ownorganisation believes to be aconservative estimate of the currentglobal extent of the problem.

Although we will never be able tomeasure the phenomenon accurately theOECD findings and conclusions arenevertheless helpful in the overallstruggle especially since they state thatthe magnitude and effects of the problemare of such significance that they compelstrong and sustained action fromgovernments business and consumers.Perhaps reflecting this sentiment, the G8leaders when they met in Germany inJune for their annual meeting, stronglyreaffirmed their commitment toprotecting intellectual property rights bycombatingpiracyandcounterfeiting.

There were plenty of new initiatives andstrategies throughout the year. One suchwas the launch of the InternationalAuthentication Association, bringingtogether a band of companies to promotethe use of authentication technologies asan integral part of an effective strategy toprotect products documents and theirusers from counterfeiting and fraud and toeducate government agencies, brandowners and others as to the role and use ofauthentication. This comes at time whencompanies appear to be increasinglyturning to advanced technologies to winback control of their brands and ward offaccidents associated with fakes. Some ofthe latest anti counterfeiting technologiestake advantage of advances in molecularscience and technology enabling productsto be injected with nanotracers, dyed withinvisible DNA markers or engraved withmicroscopiclaseretchings.

Another interesting initiative was thelaunch of the “No trade in fakes supplychain tool kit” by the US Chamber ofCommerce and the Coalition againstCounterfeiting and Piracy. Posted onthe web, the document highlights mayproven strategies that companies use toprotect their supply chains fromcounterfeiters and modern day pirates

and includes case studies of aggressivetechniques that leading companies haveused to protect their brands.

On the enforcement front, there werethousands of raids and huge seizures ofcounterfeit and pirated product in allcorners of the world. During the year twoblack Labrador dogs, Lucky and Flo stolethe limelight when they made their debutwith dramatic effect in the anticounterfeitingarena...TrainedinNorthernIreland to sniff out pirate CD's and DVD'sin hidden compartments, the dogs quicklyproved their worth by sniffing out $3million worth of movie and game discs intheir first operation. This was soonfollowed by a further successes includingfinding a huge stash of pirated DVD andCD discs worth $430,000 in a secretcompartment in a shop that had eluded ahuman enforcement raiding party. Stungbytheselosses,piratesapparentlyputoutabounty for thecaptureordestructionof thetwo animals, which caused the authoritiesto tighten their security. With a tally of 26arrests and medals of commendation, thetwo dogs were recently transferred to theUS where they spearheaded the firstcanine assisted bust in the country whenpremises in New York were raided and asubstantial haul of fake DVD's wereseized.We may expect Lucky and Flo andother canines to be even more active onfurtherraidsinthecomingyear.

In Taiwan enforcers couldn't believetheir luck when informants in twoseparate movie piracy rings reportedeach other to the Motion PictureAssociation hotline triggering raidswhich put both rings out of business andproving the old adage that there is nohonour amongst thieves!

There were too a number of unusualcounterfeiting incidents during the year.These included Croatian truffles beingsmuggled in large quantities to Italy inorder to be passed off as more expensiveAlba truffles. Other unusual productscounterfeited included guitars, ballbearings, marble, botox, eggs, caviar,tower crane sections and coal fly ash (acommon ingredient in concrete)! Theopportunism of counterfeiters knows nobounds and was once again in the newswhentheyrecentlylaunchedfakeversionsof Apple's revolutionary iPhones in Asia

even though the originals are not due to beput on the market there until 2008. Thefakes or “iClones“as they are known lookjust like the real thing and are apparentlytwo thirds of the price. It comes as nosurprise that they are being produced inandaroundShenzheninChina.

A curious tale of counterfeitingsurfaced recently at a trial in Englandwhich proves that faking artisticworks of art is far from a dying craftand involved a family that producedfake art and artefacts over aseventeen year period netting around£2 million. It was an unusual case formany reasons. The family comprised84 year old George Greenhalgh, his83 year old wife and their 47 year oldson Shaun who operated out of acouncil house in Bolton. Theirspeciality was producing counterfeitworks of art including sculpture andantiquities going back to Egyptianand Roman times, paintings andother works of art. Shaun, a failedartist, did most of the work while hisfather, by all accounts a superbsalesman passed them off to the artworld who amazingly were taken in.The fact that this family were able tofool the art world for so long was putdown to the diversity of the forgeriesthat they produced

Finally on a personal note 2007 was theyear that the counterfeiters finally got tome or more precisely to my credit card.Having implanted a device into the cardreader at a local petrol station whichread the magnetic stripe informationand captured my pin number, at leasttwo fake versions of my card werecreated. These were then used rapidly inCanada and India, where chip and pin isnot widely adopted, to make multiplecash withdrawals leaving me nursing aloss of some £4,500. Fortunately mybank was both sympathetic andcooperative and reimbursed me withouttoo much trouble but others aresometimes not so lucky. Whilstgrateful, I am much more wary, it's areminder that counterfeiting is not avictimless crime and vigilance isalways very much the order of the day.

Recession or not, another interestinganti counterfeiting year lies ahead!

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PROMOTIONAL HOLOGRAPHY

Bulgarian National BankPresents New 20leva Banknote

Dai Nippon 3D Holograms Labels with microscopiclettering

Samsung Opens Future of holographic displays

Holographic images in laminatedglass light up Cologne power plant

Bulgarian National Bank (BNB)released a new banknote of 20leva in 2007. According to theBank Officials “Size, colourscheme, graphic design andprotective elements of the newbanknotes were identical to theprevious one”

The innovations were in theanti-copy stripe, the water sealand the hologram stripe of thebank-note. The front of thebanknote contained the image of19th century Bulgarian PrimeMinister Stefan Stambolov, while the back featured thebuilding of the National Assembly and fragments of theLions' and Eagles' Bridges in Sofia. BNB released the oldbank-note in 1999.

TOKYO, Dai Nippon Printing Co. (TSE:7912) will market

a new hologram label that combines 3-D computer graphicimages with microscopic lettering .

The use of a projector to power the primary handset displayopens up the possibility of holographic displays in the future.Samsung is developing a new technology to use opticalprojection displays inside mobile phones, instead of LCDs.This may soon enable cellphones with 3D holographic displays.

Projection technology has becomeminiaturized enough to fit inside ahandset, and Samsung has developeda “panel type waveguide,” a newrefraction technology, that candistribute the light from these tinyoptical projectors evenly across amobilephone's display.

The holographic displays illuminatethe Cologne business park where thepower plant is located.

Architect Sandro Graf von Einsiedelof Cologne, Germany, turned whatcould have been the banal, industrial

http://news.homai.org/all-news-2008/dai-nippon-3d-holograms-labels-with-microscopic-lettering.html

Sources:http://gadgets.todaynominated.com/2008/02/22/ samsung-phone-with-3d-holographic-projection-display/

Bulgarian National Bank Presents New 20leva Banknote

Samsung Open Future of Holographic Displays


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chimneys of an inner city electricity plant into huge andvivid laminated glass 'sails' that project multi-coloredholographic images. They have now become a landmark inthe city, reinforcing the corporate identity of his client in aspectacular way. The three ventilation chimneys of theTransformer Station are made from triangular and squarelaminated glass panes of 1.2m x 0.9m. These panes consistof two lites of glass laminated together with a sheet ofholographic film in between, held in place by slimaluminum fittings which are fixed to the outer side of asteel construction.

The decorative, holographic display is entirelyappropriate to the business park, dedicated to a newmedia such as electronic publishing, where the powerstation is located".

A complete model-less fashion show will become a newtrend in fashion mode. Instead of using real humanmodels, a high technology 3D holographic projection isused to bring a 'life' on the catwalk. But this time, therewere no models on the runway.

TSSI Systems, the document and personnel identityspecialist, today announced the launch of OptiGard, a foodgrade high security hologram targeted at preventing thecounterfeiting of branded goods or high value documents.

LONDON- De La Rue Holographics has been awarded acontract by Copyright Promotions Sport (CPS) toprovide a highly secure brand authentication solutionfor The Football Association (The FA) enabling it totrack and manage the England 3 Lions brand. TheEngland Three Lions Crest is considered to be one of themost valuable sporting brands, not only in the UK butacross the world. De La Rue will deliver a brandlicensing solution, within the UK and Europe,incorporating a highly intuitive hologram with a secureonline track and trace system.

Hologram Fashion Show

TSSI Launches OptiGard™ Security Hologram forBranded Products

De La Rue Deliver The FA's Secure Licensing Solution

http://jixel.livejournal.com/

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Source: http://www.delarue.com

Event's Calendar

India Packaging Show 2008New Delhi, August 7-10, 2008International exhibition for packaging & converting industryhttp://www.indiapackagingshow.com

Packaging Summit, 200811-13 June, Mumbaiwww.informedia-india.com

Holography Expo 20081-2 July, Russiawww.holograms.ru, www.holograte.com

2nd Annual PharmaceuticalAnti-counterfeiting Summit5-7 August 2008, Mumbaiwww.informedia-india.com

Holographic Images in Laminated Glass

Interpack24-30 April, Germanywww.interpack.com

DRUPA29 May - 11 June, Germanywww.drupa.com

2nd International Exhibition & Conference - SECURE 2008at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai24-26 November, 2008www.securexh.com

India Label Show 20083-6 December, New Delhiwww.indialabelshow.com

TranSec India Expo 2008 Exhibition &ConferenceBandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India 24th 26th November 2008www.servintonline.com


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To,(All Member of the Association)

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Annual General Meeting of members of theHologram Manufacturers Association of India will be held on

New Friends Colony,New Delhi-110065 to transact the following business:

1. Works, Targets & Achievements of the Governing body in the year2007-08.

2. Adoption of Annual Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2008.

3. Election of the Governing Body 2008-10 & Office bearers.

4. Appointment of Auditors

5. Any other business

Members are requested to attend this meeting and confirm theirparticipation to the secretariat before 21st April 2008.

Thanking You

By the Order of the Committee

Secretary

Saturday03rd May 2008 at 10:00 am at Crown Plaza Delhi,

C S Jeena

S.No Name of Organization Links / Address

[email protected]

01 Supply of Holograms/Excise Director, Supplies & Disposal, HaryanaAdhesive SCO, 1032-33, Sector 22B, ChandigarhSubmission Deadline 25 March 2008 http://www.haryana.gov.in

02. Self Adhesive Holographic Paper Jharkhand State Electricity BoardSeal RanchiSubmission Deadline 19 Feb 2008 Jharkhand

03. Supply of Security Holograms Office of the Excise CommissionerSubmission deadline 8 January 2008 Goverment of Bihar (India)

04. Supply of Security Holograms Government of Karnataka (Revenue Department)Submission deadline 3 January 2008 Bhoomi Monitoring Cell, Room No 105,

1st Floor, MS BuildingDr. B.R. Ambedkaar Veedhi, Bangalore 560001

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Hologram recording device

Abstract

Inventors:

Hologram Manufacturers Association of India

United States Patent Application 20070263268 November15, 2007

A hologram recorder A1 includes a light source (1) of acoherent light beam and a spatial light modulator (5A) formodulating a part of the light beam from the light source(1) into a recording beam which carries two-dimensionalinformation. Another part of the light beam is used as areference beam to interfere with the recording beam. Therecording beam and the reference beam are directed to ahologram recording medium (B). A semi-translucentoptical device (4) is disposed between the light source (1)and the spatial light modulator (SA) for letting a part of thebeam travel to the spatial light modulator (5A) as atransmitted beam while letting another part of the beamtravel to the hologram recording medium (B) as a reflectedbeam. The recording beam and the reference beam, afterbeing separated from each other by the optical device (4) asthe transmitted beam and the reflected beam, travel alongthe same optical path (L) to irradiate the hologramrecording medium (B).

Yoshikawa; Hiroyasu; (Kawasaki, JP) ; Tezuka; Kouichi;(Kawasaki, JP) ; Uno; Kazushi; (Kawasaki, JP)Assignee Name andAdress: Fujitsu LimitedSource: http://www.latestpatents.com/2007/11/15/fujitsu-patent-applications-published-on-15-november-2007/

It is wonderful to see another holography publication.

The HoMAI newsletter is very beautiful and informative.

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