1. Lippmann OVD Hans I. Bjelkhagen
Hansholo Consulting Ltd
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2. Recording Materials Panchromatic isochromatic materials required
Low light-scattering emulsions needed
Ultra-high-resolution materials
Possible materials:
Silver halide emulsions
Photopolymer materials
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3. Lippmann OVD Passport Tests
DuPont photopolymer material was used
Laminated to sputtered silver foil
Recorded passport samples
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4. Dark slide with photopolymer film laminated to reflecting sputtered silver foil
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5. Optical Security for Documents
Iridescence – the fluctuation of colours in otherwise colourless matter – has become a cornerstone of optical document security
Iridescent phenomena comprising:
Interference
Diffraction
Thin films
Multilayers
Gratings
Holograms
Lippmann photographs
Various optical security devices are now common on different types of documents such as banknotes, passports, driving licenses, credit cards, etc.
Such devices are commonly referred to as Optical Variable Devices (OVDs)
R. L. van Renesse, Ed., Optical document security, 2nd ed. Artech House, Boston, London (1998)
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6. OVD on Austrian Banknote
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7. OVDs on Credit Cards
VISA, MasterCard, American Express and many other cards have embossed holograms attached as OVDs
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8. The Lippmann OVD The Lippmann photograph represents a new type of OVD
It belongs to the :
Interference Security Image Structures (ISISs)
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9. The Lippmann OVD for Enhanced Document Security
Lippmann photograph attached to a security document
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Security document
Perpendicular observation
Oblique observation
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10. Old Swedish passport tests Original Lippmann OVD
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11. Lippmann OVD Details
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12. Swedish Passport Lippmann OVD Negative OVD Tilted OVD
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13. The Latent Intaglio Print Image “SVERIGE” (Sweden) on the top of the Swedish Passport: Revealed when obliquely observed (upper right) Also recorded in the Lippmann OVD (lower right)
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14. US Passport sample with Lippmann OVD
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15. US Passport with Lippmann OVD Switching between a Positive and Negative Image
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16. Lippmann OVD Display Device
Passport sample with a Lippmann OVD attached in the upper left corner. Light from a diffuser above the passport makes it easy to inspect the Lippmann OVD laminated to the passport.
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17. Cards for military personnel, police officers, custom inspectors, etc.
The Lippmann OVD is only of interest for documents individually issued, such as:
Identification cards, e.g., corporate ID cards (air pilot’s ID cards, nuclear power plant employees)
Cards for military personnel, police officers, custom inspectors, etc.
Travel documents (e.g. Shengen visa)
Driving licences
Passports
Credit cards
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18. Advantages over embossed holograms
A Lippmann OVD can be individually made
A unique label for each document
The issuer of the document can produce them in-house
The Lippmann OVD has a very high archival stability
The Lippmann OVD is Bragg sensitive
The Lippmann OVD can record latent images
The Lippmann OVD cannot be copied by conventional colour photography, colour scanners or colour copy machines
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19. Publications on Lippmann Photography applied in the field of document security:
H. I. Bjelkhagen, “New optical security device based on one-hundred year old photographic technique,” Opt. Eng. 38, (1999)
H. I. Bjelkhagen, “A new OVD based on interferential photography recorded in holographic materials,” in Proc. SPIE 3638, (1999)
H. I. Bjelkhagen, “Lippmann Photography: A highly innovative OVD based on existing photographic techniques,” Keesing's Journal of Documents 1, Issue 2, (2003)
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20. Contact Details Dr Hans I. Bjelkhagen www.hansholo.com
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