Provided is a lighting device capable of safely illuminating a region to be illuminated having a first direction while making its edge sharp. A lighting device illuminates a region to be illuminated extending in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The lighting device includes a light source and a diffractive optical element having a first hologram component and a second hologram component both of which diffract light from the light source and direct the light to the region to be illuminated, wherein the diffracted light from the first hologram component illuminates the entire region of the region to be illuminated and the diffracted light from the second hologram component illuminates the entire region of the region to be illuminated.

The present disclosure relates to improved holographic reconstruction device and a method. In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to improved holographic reconstruction device and method that can measure a digital hologram regardless of optical characteristics of an object to be measured, by an all-in-one type system integrating a transmissive system that measures an object transmitting light and a reflective system that measures an object reflecting light.

A system for making a holographic medium for use in generating light patterns for eye tracking includes a light source configured to provide light and a beam splitter configured to separate the light into a first portion of the light and a second portion of the light that is spatially separated from the first portion of the light. The system also includes a first set of optical elements configured to transmit the first portion of the light for providing a first wide-field beam onto an optically recordable medium and one or more diffractive optical elements configured to receive the second portion of the light and project a plurality of separate light patterns onto the optically recordable medium for forming the holographic medium.

Provided is a method of manufacturing a full-color holographic optical element in a full-color holographic optical element manufacturing apparatus including a lens and a holographic recording medium located farther away than a focal length of the lens, the method including: allowing a signal beam including a mixture of laser beams having wavelengths of R (Red), G (Green), and B (Blue) to be incident on the lens; and recording a hologram in such a manner that a reference beam including a mixture of laser beams having wavelengths of R, G, and B is allowed to be incident on the holographic recording medium, wherein the holographic recording medium is configured with a single medium.

A system for making a holographic medium for use in generating light patterns for eye tracking includes a light source configured to provide light and a beam splitter configured to separate the light into a first portion of the light and a second portion of the light that is spatially separated from the first portion of the light. The system also includes a first set of optical elements configured to transmit the first portion of the light for providing a first wide-field beam onto an optically recordable medium, a second set of optical elements configured to transmit the second portion of the light for providing a second wide-field beam, and a plurality of parabolic reflectors optically coupled with the second set of optical elements and configured to receive the second wide-field beam and project a plurality of separate light patterns onto the optically recordable medium for forming the holographic medium.

A system for making a holographic medium includes a light source configured to provide light, and a beam splitter configured to separate the light into a first portion of the light and a second portion of the light that is spatially separated from the first portion of the light. The system also includes a first set of optical elements configured to transmit the first portion of the light for providing a first wide-field beam onto an optically recordable medium, a second set of optical elements configured to transmit the second portion of the light for providing a second wide-field beam, and a plurality of prisms optically coupled with the second set of optical elements and configured to receive the second wide-field beam and project a plurality of separate light patterns onto the optically recordable medium for forming the holographic medium.

A system for making a holographic medium includes a light source configured to provide light and a beam splitter configured to separate the light into a first portion of the light and a second portion of the light that is spatially separated from the first portion of the light. The system also includes a first set of optical elements configured to transmit the first portion of the light for providing a first wide-field beam onto an optically recordable medium, a second set of optical elements configured to transmit the second portion of the light through for providing a second wide-field beam, and a plurality of lenses optically coupled with the second set of optical elements configured to receive the second wide-field beam and project a plurality of separate light patterns onto the optically recordable medium for forming the holographic medium.

An image display system is provided. The image display system includes: at least one holographic image acquiring device each configured to obtain holographic image information of a scene; an image synthesis device configured to generate holographic image synthesis information based on at least a part of the holographic image information obtained by the at least one holographic image acquiring device; and an image reconstruction device configured to reconstruct a holographic synthetic image in accordance with the holographic image synthesis information. The image display system can synthesize holographic image information to combine several holographic three-dimensional display scenes into one holographic three-dimensional scene, so that the user can perceive display effects almost the same as the real scenes, improving user experience. An image display method is also provided.

There is provided a holographic display device, which includes a display panel including plural sub-pixels, wherein each sub-pixel includes plural subdivided pixels, and each subdivided pixel has an adjustable light transmittance; a backlight, configured to provide reference light to the display panel; a phase adjustment layer, including plural transparent phase adjustment components, wherein each phase adjustment component is configured to adjust a phase of a light ray transmitted through the phase adjustment component, and the phase adjustment components corresponding to a single sub-pixel have phase adjustment amounts different from each other; and a controller, configured to obtain a target phase of a light ray to be transmitted through each sub-pixel, and determine a target subdivided pixel, which corresponds to the target phase, in each sub-pixel, and further configured to obtain a target intensity of the light ray, and adjust a light transmittance of the target subdivided pixel.

There is provided a lighting device arranged to produce a controllable light beam for illuminating a scene. The device comprises an addressable spatial light modulator arranged to provide a selectable phase delay distribution to a beam of incident light. The device further comprises Fourier optics arranged to receive phase-modulated light from the spatial light modulator and form a light distribution. The device further comprises projection optics arranged to project the light distribution to form a pattern of illumination as said controllable light beam.