Yes Doug she even won a Nobel prize for this unintuitive idea.
The hologram works like a filter that unscrambles and undiffuses light to its original beam. It sort of works like an opposite Plinko game.
This almost seems like magic at first look.

Years ago I was in Harvard Square when a young woman explained her work on a real time MRI. That seemed like magic back then, at least it sounded like a Star Trek scanner.