A holographic display apparatus capable of providing an expanded viewing window and a display method are provided. The holographic display apparatus includes an image processor configured to provide computer generated hologram (CGH) data to a spatial light modulator, wherein the image processor is further configured to generate a hologram data array comprising information of the holographic image to be reproduced at the first resolution or a resolution less than the first resolution, perform an off-axis phase computation on the hologram data array at the second resolution, and then, generate the CHG data at the first resolution.

A holographic display device includes a backlight unit for emitting light and a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixels and a color filter layer including a plurality of color filter groups. The pixels are arranged in a zigzag form and are configured to modulate at least one of the amplitude and phase of the light. Each of the color filter groups includes a first sub-group including a plurality of first color filters, a second sub-group including a plurality of second color filters, and a third sub-group including a plurality of third color filters, and each of the pixels is aligned with one of the first color filters, the second color filters, and the third color filters of the color filter layer.

There is provided a holographic projector comprising a reflective liquid crystal display device. The reflective liquid crystal display device comprises a light-modulating layer between a first substrate and a second substrate substantially parallel to the first substrate. The light-modulating layer comprises planar-aligned nematic liquid crystals having positive dielectric anisotropy. The first substrate is substantially transparent and comprises a first alignment layer arranged to impart a first pre-tilt angle θ.sub.l on liquid crystals proximate the first substrate, wherein θ.sub.1>5°. The second substrate is substantially reflective and comprises a second alignment layer arranged to impart a second pre-tilt angle Θ.sub.2 on liquid crystals proximate the second substrate, wherein θ.sub.2>5°. The reflective liquid crystal display device further comprises a plurality of pixels defined on the light-modulating layer having a pixel repeat distance x, wherein x≤10 μm. The distance d between inside faces of the first substrate and second substrate satisfies 0.5 μm≤d≤3 μm, and the birefringence of the liquid crystal Δη≥0.20. The holographic projector further comprises a display driver arranged to drive the reflective liquid crystal display device to display a hologram by independently-driving each pixel at a respective modulation level selected from a plurality of modulation levels having a phase modulation value.

A holographic display apparatus capable of providing an expanded viewing window and a display method are provided. The holographic display apparatus includes an image processor configured to provide computer generated hologram (CGH) data to a spatial light modulator, wherein the image processor is further configured to generate a hologram data array comprising information of the holographic image to be reproduced at the first resolution or a resolution less than the first resolution, perform an off-axis phase computation on the hologram data array at the second resolution, and then, generate the CHG data at the first resolution.

An apparatus for synthesizing ultra-high resolution computer generated holograms based on mesh propagates a plurality of 3D meshes constituting the 3D model to a hologram plane, divides an entire angular spectrum area corresponding to a set maximum diffraction angle into a plurality of partial angular spectral areas, sequentially calculates and accumulates angular spectrums of the plurality of 3D meshes for each of the plurality of partial angular spectrum areas, and generates holograms for the 3D model from the angular spectrums accumulated for each of the plurality of partial angular spectrum areas.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for analyzing an imaging quality of an imaging system. The imaging system comprises a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator comprises pixel units arranged in an array. The method comprises obtaining a transmittance distribution function of the spatial light modulator based on a structural parameter of the pixel unit, wherein the structural parameter is an aperture ratio. The imaging quality analysis parameter of the imaging system is obtained based on the transmittance distribution function of the spatial light modulator. Then, the imaging quality of the imaging system is analyzed based on the imaging quality analysis parameter.

A compound metaoptic is presented. The compound metaoptic is comprised of at least two phase-discontinuous metasurfaces, which can convert an incident light beam to an aperture field with a desired magnitude, phase, and polarization profile. Each of the constitutive metasurfaces is designed to exhibit specific refractive properties, which vary along the metasurface. Furthermore, due to its transmission-based operation, the metaoptic can operate without lenses and be low profile: potentially having a thickness on the order of a few wavelengths or less. A systematic design procedure is also presented, which allows conversion between arbitrary complex-valued field distributions without reflection, absorption or active components. Such compound metaoptics may find applications where a specific complex field distribution is desired, including displaying holographic images and augmented or virtual reality systems.

Techniques for displaying an input image in improved perceived resolution are described. In one aspect, a circuit is designed to include a set of memory cells, a horizontal decoder and a vertical decoder. An input image is received at an interface to the memory, the input is expanded into two separate frames in the memory, where the size of each of the two frames is identical to that of the input image. Image data in at least one of the two frames are modulated in amplitude and/or in phase. The first and second frames are then read out or displayed alternatively at twice the refresh rate originally set for the input image to achieve the perceived resolution.

A holographic display apparatus capable of providing an expanded viewing window and a display method are provided. The holographic display apparatus includes an image processor configured to provide computer generated hologram (CGH) data to a spatial light modulator, wherein the image processor is further configured to generate a hologram data array comprising information of the holographic image to be reproduced at the first resolution or a resolution less than the first resolution, perform an off-axis phase computation on the hologram data array at the second resolution, and then, generate the CHG data at the first resolution.

A system that contains a semi-ellipsoidal SLM holder supporting a plurality of flat rectangular SLMs, which are placed onto the semi-ellipsoidal surface of the holder in the most surface-covering way. The system contains a coherent light source placed in the first focal point of the ellipsoid. The second focal point of the ellipsoid defines the area in which an image-receiving object is to be placed. All the SLMs are illuminated by a diverging light beam emitted from the coherent light source. In each SLM, the light is subjected to phase-amplitude modulation and is converted into an image-carrying beam, which convergently fells onto the object on which the target image is to be produced. Thus, a pattern is formed on the object by a maskless method in which a plurality of SLMs are combined into a common image-forming holographic unit.