Three-dimensional display of a horizontal-parallax-only hologram

You Seok Kim; Taegeun Kim; Ting-Chung Poon; Jin Tae Kim

doi:10.1364/AO.50.000B81

Three-dimensional display of a horizontal-parallax-only hologram

Appl Opt. 2011 Mar 1;50(7):B81-7. doi: 10.1364/AO.50.000B81.

Authors

You Seok Kim¹, Taegeun Kim, Ting-Chung Poon, Jin Tae Kim

Affiliation

¹ Department of Optical Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 134-747, South Korea.

PMID: 21364717
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000B81

Abstract

We propose a three-dimensional (3D) holographic display by converting an optically recorded complex full-parallax (FP) hologram to an off-axis horizontal-parallax-only (HPO) hologram. First, we record the complex FP hologram of an object using optical scanning holography. We then convert the complex FP hologram to an off-axis HPO hologram through fringe-matched Gaussian low-pass filtering and with the introduction of an off-axis reference. Finally, we reconstruct the off-axis HPO hologram optically using an amplitude-only spatial light modulator. Until now, only computer-generated HPO holograms have been displayed optically. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a 3D display of an optically recorded HPO hologram.