The present invention relates to an inline scanning holography system for a phosphor and a transmitter. According to the present invention, the inline scanning holography system includes a polarization sensitive lens that receives a linearly polarized beam and generates a first spherical wave of right-handed circular polarized light having a negative focal length and a second spherical wave of left-handed circular polarized light having a positive focal length, a polarizer that passes only a beam component in a predetermined polarization direction therethrough among components of the generated first and second spherical waves, a scanning unit for scanning a phosphor by using an interference beam generated between the first and second spherical waves passing through the polarizer, and a first photodetector that detects a fluorescent beam diverged from the phosphor. According to the present invention, a high-efficiency and high-quality optical scanning holography for a phosphor or a transmitter may be implemented.

Methods, apparatus, devices, and systems for displaying three-dimensional objects by individually diffracting different colors of light are provided. In one aspect, an optical device includes: a first optically diffractive component including a first diffractive structure configured to diffract a first color of light having a first incident angle at a first diffracted angle, a second optically diffractive component including a second diffractive structure configured to diffract a second color of light having a second incident angle at a second diffracted angle, a first reflective layer configured to totally reflect the first color of light having the first incident angle and transmit the second color of light, and a second reflective layer configured to totally reflect the second color of light having the second incident angle. The first reflective layer is between the first and second diffractive structures, and the second diffractive structure is between the first and second reflective layers.

A polarization volume grating (PVG) includes a bulk, birefringent medium characterized by a plurality of helical structures with helix axes and a periodicity Λ.sub.y and an anisotropic alignment material having a rotatable optical axis, disposed on a top or bottom surface of the medium. The PVG is characterized in that the optical axis of the alignment material has a continuously rotated optical axis orientation in a plane of the material surface and a periodicity Λ.sub.x, wherein the helix axes are normal to the optical axes in the alignment material surface, further wherein the birefringent medium is characterized by a plurality of controllably slanted refractive index planes having a slant angle φ=±arctan (Λ.sub.y/Λ.sub.x) and a Bragg period Λ.sub.B. Fabrication methods are disclosed.

The invention relates to a system (1) for observing objects, including: a light source (3), a holder (12) able to receive a translucent or opaque substrate, a detector (7) able to collect the backscattered light from the interaction between the light emitted by light source (3) and the objects, a polarization splitter (9), and a quarter-wave plate (10), the splitter (9) and the quarter-wave plate (10) being arranged so that the splitter (9) directs the light emitted by the light source (3) toward the solid substrate and directs the backscattered light from the interaction between the light emitted by the light source (3) and the objects toward the detector (7).

A system includes a light outputting element configured to output a first beam propagating toward a beam interference zone from a first side of the beam interference zone. The system also includes a wavefront shaping assembly disposed at a second side of the beam interference zone and including a polarization hologram, the wavefront shaping assembly being configured to reflect the first beam as a second beam propagating toward the beam interference zone from the second side. The first beam and the second beam are linearly polarized beams, and are configured to interfere with one another within the beam interference zone to generate an interference pattern that is recordable in a recording medium layer disposed in the beam interference zone.

A method for producing holograms with a multiplicity of holographic prescriptions from a single master is provided. A multiplicity of holographic substrates each containing a first hologram is stacked on a second holographic recording medium substrate. The first hologram is designed to diffract light from a first direction into a second direction. When expose to illumination from the first direction zero order and diffracted light from each first hologram interfere in the second holographic recording medium substrate forming a second hologram. The second hologram is then copied into a third holographic recording medium substrate to provide the final copy hologram.

Examples are disclosed relating to reducing orders of diffraction patterns in phase modulating devices. An example phase modulating device includes a phase modulating layer having first and second opposing sides, a common electrode adjacent the first side of the phase modulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes adjacent the second side of the phase modulating layer, and blurring material disposed between the phase modulating layer and the pixel electrodes. In the example phase modulating device, the blurring material is configured to smooth phase transitions in the phase modulating layer between localized areas associated with the pixel electrodes, the pixel electrodes have a pixel pitch by which the pixel electrodes are distributed along the phase modulating layer, and the pixel electrodes are separated from one another by an inter-pixel gap, where the ratio of the inter-pixel gap to the pixel pitch is between 0.50 and 1.0.

Techniques to improve image quality in holography utilizing lenses made from materials with non-quantized anisotropic electromagnetic properties, such as birefringent materials, to advantageously split an incoming beam of light into two coincident beams with different focal lengths that interfere with one another and thus create holograms free of electro-optical or pixelated devices are disclosed for microscopy and other applications. The use of thin birefringent lenses and single crystal alpha-BBO lenses are introduced. Corresponding systems, methods and apparatuses are described.

Techniques to improve image quality in holography utilizing lenses made from materials with non-quantized anisotropic electromagnetic properties, such as birefringent materials, to advantageously split an incoming beam of light into two coincident beams with different focal lengths that interfere with one another and thus create holograms free of electro-optical or pixelated devices are disclosed for microscopy and other applications. The use of thin birefringent lenses and single crystal alpha-BBO lenses are introduced. Corresponding systems, methods and apparatuses are described.

A liquid crystal grating and its fabrication method, and a display panel are provided in the present disclosure. The liquid crystal grating includes a first light adjustment component and a second light adjustment component, disposed oppositely. The first light adjustment component includes a first liquid crystal panel and a first polarization adjustment component; the second light adjustment component includes a second liquid crystal panel and a second polarization adjustment component; and using a second direction as an extending direction of a rotation axis, when the first light adjustment component is rotated 180° around the rotation axis, an alignment direction of the first liquid crystal panel is in parallel with an alignment direction of the second liquid crystal panel, and an optical axis direction of the first polarization adjustment component is in parallel with an optical axis direction of the second polarization adjustment component.