A low-resolution 3D holographic volumetric display

Javid Khan; Ian Underwood; Alan Greenaway; Mikko Halonen

doi:10.1117/12.858596

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4 May 2010 A low-resolution 3D holographic volumetric display

Javid Khan, Ian Underwood, Alan Greenaway, Mikko Halonen

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Proceedings Volume 7723, Optics, Photonics, and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications; 77231B (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858596
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

A simple low resolution volumetric display is presented, based on holographic volume-segments. The display system comprises a proprietary holographic screen, laser projector, associated optics plus a control unit. The holographic screen resembles a sheet of frosted glass about A4 in size (20x30cm). The holographic screen is rear-illuminated by the laser projector, which is in turn driven by the controller, to produce simple 3D images that appear outside the plane of the screen. A series of spatially multiplexed and interleaved interference patterns are pre-encoded across the surface of the holographic screen. Each illumination pattern is capable of reconstructing a single holographic volume-segment. Up to nine holograms are multiplexed on the holographic screen in a variety of configurations including a series of numeric and segmented digits. The demonstrator has good results under laboratory conditions with moving colour 3D images in front of or behind the holographic screen.

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Javid Khan, Ian Underwood, Alan Greenaway, and Mikko Halonen "A low-resolution 3D holographic volumetric display", Proc. SPIE 7723, Optics, Photonics, and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications, 77231B (4 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858596

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