Provided is an optically addressable spatial light modulator (OASLM)-based holographic display and a method of operating the same. The display includes an addressing unit including a light source unit emitting a plurality of recording beams, a driving mirror array including driving mirrors that each reflect a recording beam incident thereon, and a mirror member array including mirror members that each obliquely reflect a recording beam incident thereon, in which each of the driving mirrors corresponds to one of the mirror members. The recording beams, which are transmitted by the addressing unit, are focused onto the OASLM by micro lenses of a lenslet array. The OASLM is optically addressed by the recording beams focused by the micro lenses of the lenslet array and thus modulates and diffracts a reproduction beam, incident thereon from a reproduction beam providing unit, and thus a holographic image is reproduced.

A method of forming a rarefied hologram for video imaging and 3D lithography by using an MEMS/SLM with a plurality of pixels on the surface at a fixed distance from the retina of the viewer eye. The method consists of providing an initial desired image, which has to be holographically reproduced by the MEMS/SLM as a remote virtual 3D image visible by the viewer's eye. The desired image is coded in a special manner and mapped by encoding and calculating only a part of the initial desired image. The operations of the pixels are controlled in accordance with the code for generation of the holographic pattern. Since only a part of a holographic pattern of the image is encoded and calculated, it becomes possible to reduce the calculation time and decrease parasitic light scattering.

A holographic display apparatus and method using a directional backlight unit (BLU) are provided. The holographic display apparatus may include a BLU configured to control light to be incident on a spatial light modulator (SLM) using a plurality of mirrors, and the SLM configured to modulate the incident light based on image information and to display a holographic image.

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 spatial filter for positioning in a Fourier plane of a holographic display system. The spatial filter delimits a set of apertures, wherein each aperture in the set of apertures is switchable between a substantially transmissive and a substantially non-transmissive state. The set of apertures comprises a plurality of subsets of apertures, and each subset comprises at least one aperture. Each of the subsets of apertures corresponds to a Fourier transform of a target light field, F(H), wherein F(H) substantially does not overlap a Fourier transform of a complex conjugate of the corresponding target light field, F(H*), in the Fourier plane. The union of the set of apertures forms a shape which is at least one of simply connected and substantially space filling.

An example holographic display may comprise an angularly dispersive micromirror array and an optical assembly configured to emit, towards the micromirror array, a first ray of light having a first wavelength and a second ray of light having a second wavelength, the second wavelength being different to the first wavelength. The first ray of light is incident upon the micromirror array at a first angle of incidence and the second ray of light is incident upon the micromirror array at a second angle of incidence, the second angle of incidence being different to the first angle of incidence by a predetermined amount to at least partially compensate for the dispersive effects of the micromirror array along an optical axis of the holographic display.

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.

A projection system includes: an illumination source configured to output illumination light; a phase light modulator (PLM) optically coupled to the illumination source, the PLM configured to: receive the illumination light; phase modulate the illumination light while displaying a phase hologram, to produce modulated light; and projection optics coupled to the PLM, the projection optics configured to receive the modulated light and to project an image responsive to the modulated light; wherein both a mean in intensity and a variance in intensity in bright regions of the projected image is greater than the mean intensity and the variance in intensity in dark regions of the projected image.

A method of manufacturing a thin film optical apparatus includes providing a substrate and applying an alignment layer over the substrate. The alignment layer ranges from about 50 to 100 nm in thickness. The method includes imprinting a hologram with a desired optic pattern onto the alignment layer and applying at least one layer of mesogen material over the alignment layer.

An example projection system includes a processing element to run an iterative algorithm to generate, based on a digital video image, a phase hologram; an illumination source to output coherent light; a phase light modulator (PLM) to receive the phase hologram and the coherent light, and modulate the coherent light to produce modulated light; and projection optics to receive the modulated light from the PLM and to project an image responsive to the modulated light and the phase hologram, in which the image has more noise in bright regions of the image than in dark regions of the image, and in which the bright regions are of higher intensity than the dark regions.