Its purpose was to create a beam of neutrons to use for scanning and testing other materials.

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When the reflected object beam and the reference beam are recombined, they create an interference pattern that encodes the 3-D image.

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To create a hologram, such as those typically seen on credit cards, a laser beam is split into two (an object beam and a reference beam).

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