Quantitative characterization of holographic displays based on liquid-crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulator

This report discusses the effect of speckle size on the quality of holographic images based on a liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulator (SLM). Further, it proposes methods of quantifying the average speckle size and holographic image resolution. These methods enable both characteristics to be compared using the same unit (the number of pixels in the holographic image), providing an intuitive and effective comparative analysis method. In particular, by varying the LCoS resolution ratio, the change in the resolvable minimum pixels of the holographic image is interpreted in conjunction with the average speckle size; moreover, an analysis of the correlation between the latter two is presented. This approach, based on LCoS resolution division, could provide useful insights into single-SLM-based, full-color holographic displays using space division. Furthermore, it could be extended to other components, including more advanced LCoS SLMs, and used to identify the relative effects on image quality with speckles.     

Dynamic analysis of holographic gratings in amulti-wavelength visible light sensitive photopolymer

A dynamic theoretical model of photochemistry and hologram formation in holographic photopolymer is established, and the dynamic development process of holographic gratings in the photopolymer is discussed with the model. A novel multi-wavelength visible light sensitive photopolymer for holographic storage is prepared. The influence of exposure wavelength on holographic storage characteristics is analysed. By fitting the experimental data of transmittance and diffraction efficiency to a function of time with different exposure intensities and wavelengths, the variations of dynamic parameters of photochemistry and photopolymerization diffusion are presented.     

利用空间光调制器实现计算全息三维显示

针对目前三维物体计算全息算法数据量大、计算速度慢及共轭像影响再现效果问题,提出一种全息体视图计算方法。根据人眼双目视差立体视觉原理,由摄像机获取三维物体不同角度的二维序列视差图像,通过计算全息算法得到多视角全息图,合成三维物体全息体视图。在迭代傅里叶变换算法的基础上,采用预设初始相位并增加反馈因子的方法,提高相息图的计算效率。基于液晶空间光调制器构建光学系统,对计算的全息体视图进行了光学再现。结果表明:该方法有效地排除了共轭像的干扰,相息图的迭代计算效率提高30%以上,再现图像与目标图像的结构相似度大于0.85。     

Nonlinear response studies and corrections for a liquid crystal spatial light modulator

The nonlinear response of light transmission characteristics of a liquid crystal (LC) spatial light modulator (SLM) is studied. The results show that the device exhibits a wide range of variations with different control parameters and input settings. Experiments were performed to obtain intensity modulation that is best described by either power-law or sigmoidal functions. Based on the inverse transformation, an appropriate pre-processing scheme for electrically addressed input gray-scale images, particularly important in several optical processing and imaging applications, is suggested. Further, the necessity to compensate the SLM image nonlinearities in a volume holographic data storage and retrieval system is demonstrated.     

Advances in the light field displays based on integral imaging and holographic techniques(Invited Paper)

Light field displays comprise three-dimensional （3D） visual information presentation devices capable of providing realistic and full parallax autostereoscopic images. In this letter, the recent advances in the light field displays based on integral imaging （II） and holographic techniques are presented. Several advanced approaches to demonstrate the light field displays including viewing angle enhancement techniques of the II display, a fast hologram generation method using graphics processing unit （GPU） and multiple WRPs, and a holographic microscopy to display the living cells are reported. These methods improve some important constraints of the light field displays and add new features.     

彩色全息显示中液晶空间光调制器位相调制偏差的矫正方法

采用三基色激光照明并结合时分复用或空间复用技术,可实现基于液晶空间光调制器(LC-SLM)的彩色全息显示.但由于在不同激光波长入射条件下LC-SLM的位相调制特性曲线不同,难以同时满足多波长入射条件下2π线性位相调制的要求,致使彩色全息再现结果受到共轭像和零级斑的干扰.针对该问题,本文通过实验测试获得LC-SLM在不同波长入射时的位相调制特性曲线,并分析了RGB激光器各分量的位相调制特性曲线非线性偏差和调制幅度偏差对多阶位相型傅里叶变换相息图再现效果的影响.根据"查表法"建立了各波长入射条件下满足2π线性位相调制的灰度映射关系,并对RGB分量相息图进行修正.通过对修正前后RGB分量相息图的数值模拟再现和光电再现实验与分析,结果表明:该方法有效地克服了LC-SLM位相调制特性曲线偏差的不利影响,从而改善了彩色全息显示中各分量相息图的再现质量.     

Enhancement of LED light extraction via diffraction of hexagonal lattice fabricated in ITO layer with holographic lithography and wet etching

A novel method for enhancing light extraction efficiency of LEDs via diffraction of the lattice fabricated in ITO layers of LEDs is proposed. The lattice fabrication process includes holographic lithography and wet etching. 3-beam interference holographic approach was used to fabricate large-area hexagonal lattice mask which can cover 2-inch semiconductor wafer, and acid etching was used to transfer the lattice structure into p-contact ITO layer. 1.4 fold enhancement of light output at 20 mA injection current was obtained from GaN-based LEDs in the primary experiment. The lattice fabrication process is rapid and cost-effective thus enabling industrial mass production of high brightness LEDs.     

Refractive index of light and the quark-gluon plasma

The refractive index (RI) of light propagating in a medium of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is studied. The weakly coupled QGP is studied in the framework of hard-thermal-loop (HTL) perturbation theory, and the strongly coupled one is treated based on the holographic approach. In more realistic setups, the feasibility of observing the optical phenomenon related to the RI of QGP is also discussed.     

碱性品红光致聚合物薄膜的光致光衍射

本文研究了全息存储实验中以波长532 nm的半导体激光器作为记录和读出光源,碱性品红作为光敏剂的丙烯酰胺基光致聚合物薄膜的光致光衍射现 象.它可以考虑为透过全息干涉条纹的原始入射光和反射光,与来自光聚物中未曝光的不均匀表面和内部的散射光四波混频的结果.根据简并四波混频理论中的位相匹配条件对双光束全息写入时产生的衍射光锥,以及单光束辐照复现时产生的衍射光锥现象分别做出了理论解释;并且利用全息散射理论结合三角学知识对入射光的入射角与衍射光锥的锥角的依赖关系进行了深入讨论. 关键词： 全息 光致聚合物 衍射光锥 碱性品红     

一种全可见光敏感的光致聚合物全息特性研究

制备了一种对整个可见光波段都敏感的光全息存储材料,并研究了该材料的透过率、衍射效率、灵敏度等全息特性.用He-Ne激光器633 nm和Ar+ 激光器514 nm,488 nm,476 nm四种波长的光曝光,材料的饱和衍射效率最大为66%,最小为48%;最高灵敏度为8.06×10－3 cm2/mJ.最高折射率调制度为4.22×10－4.用多波长存储时,不同波长的光可存储多幅全息图,且再现图像清晰.结果表明,该材料是较好的高密度数字全息存储材料.     

3-D distortion of observed images reconstructed from a cylindrical holographic stereogram. (2) white light reconstruction type.

The 3-D distortion of the observed images reconstructed from cylindrical holographic stereograms with white light reconstruction (WCHS) are considered, and, from the viewpoint of the distortion, the area of the viewing position is presented.     

Reflected light holographic microscopy of moving objects

A holographic system that images front-illuminated, fast-moving microscopic objects is described. Focused micrographs can be generated under circumstances when ordinary microscopy (due to object movements) and transilluminated holographic microscopy (due to object opaqueness) cannot be used. Details of the experimental arrangements, easy-to-use working formulae for obtaining optimum image reproduction, and results from the application of the system to studies of droplet and solid particle suspensions in liquids are presented.     

Linewidth and coherence properties of scattered light

The holographic recording of light scattered by brownian particles is discussed. It is shown that, due to the finite time of exposure, the record acts as a temporal filter of non-zero bandwidth. As a consequence the holographic recording can be obtained in spite of the frequency change of the scattered light. The experimental results show that, in fact, such a procedure can constitute an alternative way to measure the linewidth of the scattered light.     

All-around holographic three-dimensional light field display

Technology for all-around holographic three-dimensional (3D) light field display is proposed in this paper. A plane mirror keeps rotating around the optical axis. At each angular position, the mirror-image's Fourier CGH of the target object is projected onto the mirror. The reflected CGH contributes a specific viewing angle range to the target object. Linking up all viewing angle ranges in the horizontal plane, all-around display can be realized via the “afterimage” effect. An all-around holographic 3D light field display is implemented experimentally here with a 60 Hz SLM by introducing an observer tracking unit in the proposed display system.     

Archival storage of color films by rainbow holographic technique

A technique of generating color holographic images with a one-step rainbow holographic process is described. This technique offers the capability of archival storage of color materials on a single black and white photographic film. The process is very simple to implement and it allows the reconstruction of the color image with a white light source. Although some degree of color blur is inherent with the rainbow holographic process, it can be minimized by the proper design of the optical system. A simple experimental result is also presented.     

Photorefraction and anisotropic light scattering in LiNbO3-Fe crystals

By holographic recording in LiNbO₃-Fe and LiTaO₃-Fe crystals a new light scattering effect has been observed with an optical indicatrix along the optical axis. The kinetics of the light scattering depends on the intensity, wavelength as well as the polarization of the incident light The holographic volume grating is created by the interference of an incident light and light scattered by crystal inhomogeneities.     

Simulated quantum-optical object recognition from high-resolution images

A holographic experimental procedure assuming use of quantum states of light is simulated. It uses merely interference-based image storage and nonunitary image retrieval realized by wave function collapse. Successful results of computational view-invariant recognition of object images are presented. As in neural net theory, recognition is selective reconstruction of an image from a database of many concrete images (simultaneously stored in an associative memory) after presentation of a different version of that image. That is, in the first step, we store many high-resolution images of objects into quantum memory (a hologram). In the second step, we present a “nonlearned” noisy image version. We thereby trigger memory-influenced reorganization of the state of the system so that it finally encodes those corrected object images that correspond to the newly presented version. The holographic procedure seems to be implementable with present-day quantum optics.     

Visible reconstruction by a circular holographic display from digital holograms recorded under infrared illumination

A circular holographic display that consists of phase-only spatial light modulators is used to reconstruct images in visible light from digital holograms recorded under infrared (10.6?μm) illumination. The reconstruction yields a holographic digital video display of a three-dimensional ghostlike image of an object floating in space where observers can move and rotate around it.     

新型双染料敏化的宽带光聚物全息特性研究

报道了一种新型、两种染料共同敏化的宽带响应光聚物材料.该材料使用孟加拉玫瑰红和亚甲基蓝作为联合光敏剂,由于混合染料的加入,使材料的感光光谱范围大大加宽.用四种波长的光对样品进行曝光,衍射效率均大于40%,最高可达80%,适合于多波长存储,分别用不同波长的激光在样品同一位置存储了四幅不同的图像,其再现图像效果良好,表明该材料是一种较理想的多波长全息存储材料.     

物光的偏振性对全息记录质量的影响

通过对菲涅耳三维漫反射全息记录光路中物光与参考光偏振状态的实验检测，发现线偏振的激光被不同表面材料的物体散射和漫反射后变成“部分偏振光”，几乎所有目标物都有显著的消偏振现象，全息干板上实际记录的是线偏振的参考光与“部分偏振”的物光形成的相干度较低的干涉条纹。物光偏振度的大幅度下降影响干涉条纹的衬比度，并增加全息图的噪声。给出实验方案和检测光路，采用在参考光路中插入1/4波片的方法，可充分利用非偏振物光各个振动方向的光能，提高条纹的衬比度。