Computer-generated holographic display systems are described with improved image quality when used with illumination sources other than single mode lasers, such as broader emission light sources including LEDs and multi-mode lasers.

A spatial light modulator and a method for displaying a computer generated hologram are disclosed. The spatial light modulator includes a plurality of MEMS units arranged in an array, each of the MEMS units corresponds to a pixel of a computer generated hologram and includes a sensing device, a light shielding portion and a driving device. The sensing device is configured for receiving position information that is obtained through Roman encoding a pixel corresponding to an MEMS unit including the sensing device and the position information is transmitted to the driving device by the sensing device. The driving device is configured for controlling the light shielding portion to move to a position corresponding to the position information in response to the received position information of the light shielding portion when the present frame is displayed.

A see-through holographic display apparatus includes a relay optical system expanding or reducing and transferring a hologram image generated by a spatial light modulator, a noise removal filter removing noise from diffraction light of the hologram image transferred through the relay optical system, and a light path converter changing at least one of a path of the diffraction light of the hologram image transferred from the relay optical system and a path of external light.

A holographic reconstruction of scenes includes a light modulator, an imaging system with at least two imaging means and an illumination device with sufficient coherent light for illumination of hologram coded in the light modulator. The at least two imaging means are arranged such that a first imaging means is provided for the magnified imaging of the light modulator on a second imaging means. The second imaging means is provided for imaging of a plane of a spatial frequency spectrum of the light modulator in a viewing plane at least one viewing window. The viewing window corresponds to a diffraction order of the spatial frequency spectrum.

The invention describes a device allowing the observation of a sample, comprising particles, for example biological particles, by lensless imaging. The sample is disposed against a substrate, the substrate being interposed between a light source and an image sensor. The substrate comprises at least one thin film, extending across a thin film plane, structured so as to form a diffraction grating, designed to confine a part of a light wave emitted by the light source, in a plane parallel to said thin film plane. The device does not comprise magnification optics between the substrate and the image sensor.

An optically addressable pixelated spatial light modulator, comprising: a laser light source, a structured light field encoding projection module, and a superpixel metasurface device. The structured light field encoding projection module comprises a structured light field encoding module, which encodes a laser beam emitted by a laser light source into a structured light beam according to the modulation amount distribution of a target light field. The superpixel metasurface device comprises a plurality of unit cell structures, with each unit cell structure serving as a light field modulation pixel point. Each unit cell structure comprises a plurality of sub-wavelength micro-nano structures, and the unit cell structure generates a light field modulation amount under the action of the structured light beam for the light field modulation.

Holographic volume gratings in waveguide cells can be recorded using many different methods and systems in accordance with various embodiments of the invention. One embodiment includes a holographic recording system including at least one laser source configured to emit recording beams and a movable platform configured to move between a first position and a second position, wherein when the movable platform is in the first position, the at least one laser source is configured to emit a first set of one or more recording beams toward a first set of one or more stations and when the movable platform is in the second position, the at least one laser source is configured to emit a second set of one or more recording beams toward a second set of one or more stations.

An optically addressable pixelated spatial light modulator, comprising: a laser light source, a structured light field encoding projection module, and a superpixel metasurface device. The structured light field encoding projection module comprises a structured light field encoding module, which encodes a laser beam emitted by a laser light source into a structured light beam according to the modulation amount distribution of a target light field. The superpixel metasurface device comprises a plurality of unit cell structures, with each unit cell structure serving as a light field modulation pixel point. Each unit cell structure comprises a plurality of sub-wavelength micro-nano structures, and the unit cell structure generates a light field modulation amount under the action of the structured light beam for the light field modulation.

One embodiment of a display system includes one or more light sources, one or more spatial light modulators, and a plurality of scatterers. One embodiment of a method for displaying content includes computing at least one of a phase or an amplitude modulation associated with two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) content, and causing one or more spatial light modulators to modulate light based on the at least one of a phase or an amplitude modulation to generate modulated light, where the modulated light is scattered by a plurality of scatterers.

A device and a method for manufacturing holographic optical elements. The device includes at least two partial light beams and one interference light beam, one deformable mirror in each case per partial light beam, a control unit, which is configured to actuate the deformable mirrors to adapt a wavefront of the partial light beam, and a holographic film. The deformable mirrors are situated so as to each reflect precisely one partial light beam and to direct the reflected partial light beam on the holographic film, and the interference light beam being directed on the holographic film to interfere with the reflected partial light beams so as to simultaneously generate at least two holographic optical elements.