There is provided a hologram reconstruction method including: onto an
optical recording medium in which a hologram is recorded by
simultaneously irradiating the Fourier transformed signal beam
representing a digital data with a bright and dark image and removing a
DC component and the Fourier transformed reference beam thereon,
irradiating a first reference beam for reading out that is the same as
the reference beam to generate a first diffracted light generated by the
recorded hologram, and synthesizing a DC component of a predetermined
phase with the generated first diffracted light to generate a first
synthesized light; detecting an inverse Fourier transformed image of the
first synthesized light to obtain first image data; irradiating a second
reference beam for reading out that differs from the reference beam onto
the hologram recorded on the optical recording medium to generate a
second diffracted light from the recorded hologram, and synthesizing a DC
component of a predetermined phase with the generated second diffracted
light to generate a second synthesized light; detecting an inverse
Fourier transformed image of the second synthesized light to obtain
second image data; subtracting one of the first image data and the second
image data from the other at each pixel of the light and dark image; and
decoding the digital data based on the value obtained by subtraction.