An illuminator for a display panel includes a light source for providing a light beam and a lightguide coupled to the light source for receiving and propagating the light beam along the substrate. The lightguide includes an array of out-coupling gratings that runs parallel to the array of pixels for out-coupling portions of the light beam from the lightguide such that the out-coupled light beam portions propagate through the substrate and produce an array of optical power density peaks at the array of pixels due to Talbot effect. A period of the array of peaks is an integer multiple of a pitch of the array of pixels.

A device is provided. The device includes a first Pancharatnam-Berry phase (“PBP”) lens, and a second PBP lens stacked with the first PBP lens. Each of the first PBP lens and the second PBP lens includes a liquid crystal (“LC”) layer. Each side of the LC layer is provided with a continuous electrode and a plurality of patterned electrodes. The patterned electrodes in the first PBP lens are arranged non-parallel to the patterned electrodes in the second PBP lens.

A two-dimensional holographic image projection display method. The method includes illuminating a first modulating part of a spatial light modulator with a first incident light beam at a first incident angle with respect to a direction normal to a main surface of the spatial light modulator to form a first projection region on an imaging plane; and illuminating a second modulating part of the spatial light modulator with a second incident light beam at a second incident angle with respect to the direction normal to the main surface of the spatial light modulator to form a second projection region on the imaging plane. The first projection region abuts or partially overlaps with the second projection region at an interface substantially parallel to a lateral direction of the spatial light modulator.

A two-dimensional holographic image projection display method. The method includes illuminating a first modulating part of a spatial light modulator with a first incident light beam at a first incident angle with respect to a direction normal to a main surface of the spatial light modulator to form a first projection region on an imaging plane; and illuminating a second modulating part of the spatial light modulator with a second incident light beam at a second incident angle with respect to the direction normal to the main surface of the spatial light modulator to form a second projection region on the imaging plane. The first projection region abuts or partially overlaps with the second projection region at an interface substantially parallel to a lateral direction of the spatial light modulator.

A lighting device for a motor vehicle having a light source, a light guide with an entrance surface, and a hologram disposed on or in the light guide. The lighting device is configured such that light emanating from the light source enters the entrance surface of the light guide and interacts with the hologram so that an image stored in the hologram is reconstructed and is visible to an observer of the lighting device. The light guide has a first exit surface and a second exit surface. The lighting device is configured such that light that has interacted with the hologram exits through the first exit surface and that light that has not interacted with the hologram exits through the second exit surface.

A lighting device for a motor vehicle having a light source, a light guide with an entrance surface, and a hologram disposed on or in the light guide. The lighting device is configured such that light emanating from the light source enters the entrance surface of the light guide and interacts with the hologram so that an image stored in the hologram is reconstructed and is visible to an observer of the lighting device. The light guide has a first exit surface and a second exit surface. The lighting device is configured such that light that has interacted with the hologram exits through the first exit surface and that light that has not interacted with the hologram exits through the second exit surface.

An optical waveguide comprises at least two TIR surface and contains a grating. Input TIR light with a first angular range along a first propagation direction undergoes at least two diffractions at the grating. Each diffraction directs light into a unique TIR angular range along a second propagation direction.

An optical waveguide comprises at least two TIR surface and contains a grating. Input TIR light with a first angular range along a first propagation direction undergoes at least two diffractions at the grating. Each diffraction directs light into a unique TIR angular range along a second propagation direction.

The present invention provides a composition for hologram recording, a hologram recording medium and a hologram that are capable of realizing excellent diffraction characteristics and an optical device and an optical member using same. The present invention is capable of providing a composition for hologram recording containing at least a radical polymerizable monomer and a matrix resin, in which a cross-sectional observation image at the time of observing a hologram recording film by atomic force microscopy (AFM) has a diffraction grating structure indicating that there is a material density difference that can be observed by the AFM.

The present invention relates to a method, system and device for transmitting information from an optical communication transmitter to a receiving station via a laser beam and for alignment of said laser beam emitted from said optical communication transmitter with said receiving station, wherein: said optical communication transmitter is displaced relative to said receiving station and comprises a laser, a radio receiver, a microprocessor and a liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulator comprising a diffractive element, whereby said laser beam is emitted from said laser and is projected over an area by diffraction and reflection using said liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulator, wherein said laser and said diffractive element are controlled by said microprocessor, wherein said laser beam has a longitudinal axis parallel to the propagation path of said laser beam, said receiving station comprises a photodiode receiver for detecting said transmitted laser beam and a radio transmitter, and said method comprises using a pointing diffraction mask and a tracking diffraction mask, wherein each pointing diffraction mask is generated in combination with a tracking diffraction mask in said diffractive element.