“…One might now ask, How are the polygon's parameters related to the desired image characteristics? The number of resolvable points of any scanning system is given by its time-bandwidth product.1 4 In the case of the polygon this is simply expressed as Nr =wo aA (20) where 0 is the optical deflection angle, W is the beam size, and a is an aperture shape factor (typically 1 < a < 3). For the polygon to reproduce the holographic image faithfully, Nres must be greater than the time-bandwidth product of an entire holographic line, i.e., We now want to solve inequality (27) for tr,, so by rearranging the terms we arrive at the second-degree expression:…”