Large holographic displays for real-time applications

A. Schwerdtner; R. Häussler; N. Leister

doi:10.1117/12.762589

25 January 2008 Large holographic displays for real-time applications

A. Schwerdtner, R. Häussler, N. Leister

Proceedings Volume 6912, Practical Holography XXII: Materials and Applications; 69120T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762589
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2008, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Holography is generally accepted as the ultimate approach to display three-dimensional scenes or objects. Principally, the reconstruction of an object from a perfect hologram would appear indistinguishable from viewing the corresponding real-world object. Up to now two main obstacles have prevented large-screen Computer-Generated Holograms (CGH) from achieving a satisfactory laboratory prototype not to mention a marketable one. The reason is a small cell pitch CGH resulting in a huge number of hologram cells and a very high computational load for encoding the CGH. These seemingly inevitable technological hurdles for a long time have not been cleared limiting the use of holography to special applications, such as optical filtering, interference, beam forming, digital holography for capturing the 3-D shape of objects, and others. SeeReal Technologies has developed a new approach for real-time capable CGH using the socalled Tracked Viewing Windows technology to overcome these problems. The paper will show that today's state of the art reconfigurable Spatial Light Modulators (SLM), especially today's feasible LCD panels are suited for reconstructing large 3-D scenes which can be observed from large viewing angles. For this to achieve the original holographic concept of containing information from the entire scene in each part of the CGH has been abandoned. This substantially reduces the hologram resolution and thus the computational load by several orders of magnitude making thus real-time computation possible. A monochrome real-time prototype measuring 20 inches has been built and demonstrated at last year's SID conference and exhibition 2007 and at several other events.

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A. Schwerdtner, R. Häussler, and N. Leister "Large holographic displays for real-time applications", Proc. SPIE 6912, Practical Holography XXII: Materials and Applications, 69120T (25 January 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762589

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