Holographic video display based on guided-wave acousto-optic devices

Daniel E. Smalley; Quinn Y. J. Smithwick; V. Michael Bove Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.700735

8 February 2007 Holographic video display based on guided-wave acousto-optic devices

Daniel E. Smalley, Quinn Y. J. Smithwick, V. Michael Bove Jr.

Proceedings Volume 6488, Practical Holography XXI: Materials and Applications; 64880L (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.700735
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2007, 2007, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We introduce a new holo-video display architecture ("Mark III") developed at the MIT Media Laboratory. The goal of the Mark III project is to reduce the cost and size of a holo-video display, making it into an inexpensive peripheral to a standard desktop PC or game machine which can be driven by standard graphics chips. Our new system is based on lithium niobate guided-wave acousto-optic devices, which give twenty or more times the bandwidth of the tellurium dioxide bulk-wave acousto-optic modulators of our previous displays. The novel display architecture is particularly designed to eliminate the high-speed horizontal scanning mechanism that has traditionally limited the scalability of Scophony- style video displays. We describe the system architecture and the guided-wave device, explain how it is driven by a graphics chip, and present some early results.

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Daniel E. Smalley, Quinn Y. J. Smithwick, and V. Michael Bove Jr. "Holographic video display based on guided-wave acousto-optic devices", Proc. SPIE 6488, Practical Holography XXI: Materials and Applications, 64880L (8 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.700735

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