An illumination apparatus using a coherent light source, including a light beam scanning device that irradiates a light beam onto a hologram recording medium, and scans the light beam so that an irradiation position of the light beam on the hologram recording medium changes with time. The light beam scanning device scans the light beam so that an irradiation direction of the light beam with respect to the hologram recording medium is along the particular optical path, the light beam scanning device having a function of bending the light beam at a fixed scanning origin so that the light beam swings around the fixed scanning origin on a plane including the fixed scanning origin, and scans the light beam in a one-dimensional direction on the hologram recording medium. Illumination light obtained from the hologram recording medium is irradiated onto a light receiving surface.

A deflection optical element, which diffracts incident light, includes a substrate having translucency, and a holographic material layer disposed so as to overlap the substrate, the holographic material layer being formed with a diffraction grating composed of interference fringes, wherein the holographic material layer is formed with an alignment mark where the interference fringes are discontinuous, and the alignment mark is located in an optically effective area where the holographic material layer diffracts the incident light.

Disclosed is a coherence-adjustable digital holography system. More particularly, the coherence-adjustable digital holography system includes a light source part for generating low-interference light; a dispersion part for dispersing the generated light, an adjustment part for adjusting coherence by adjusting a spectrum bandwidth of the light which has passed through the dispersion part; and a detection part for detecting a holographic image of a subject from the adjusted light. In accordance with such a configuration, an interference fringe may be easily obtained through coherence adjustment, whereby the accuracy of a detected holographic image may be improved.

A holographic imaging device and method realizes both a transmission type and a reflection type, and also realizes a long working distance wide field of view or ultra-high resolution. Object light emitted from an object, sequentially illuminated with parallel illumination light whose incident direction is changed, is recorded on a plurality of object light holograms for each incident direction using off-axis spherical wave reference light. The reference light is recorded on a reference light hologram using in-line spherical wave reference light being in-line with the object light. An object light wave hologram and its spatial frequency spectrum at the object position are generated for each incident direction using each hologram. A synthetic spectrum which occupies a wider frequency space is generated by matching each spectrum in the overlapping area, and a synthetic object light wave hologram with increased numerical aperture is obtained thereby.

An eye-tracking system includes a holographic illuminator and a detector. The holographic illuminator includes a light source configured to provide light and a holographic medium optically coupled with the light source. The holographic medium is configured to receive the light provided from the light source and concurrently project a plurality of separate light patterns toward an eye. The detector is configured to detect a reflection of at least a subset of the plurality of separate light patterns, reflected off the eye, for determining a location of a pupil of the eye. Also disclosed is a method for determining a location of a pupil of an eye with the eye-tracking system that includes the holographic illuminator.

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 method includes providing light from a light source and separating 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 method also includes transmitting the first portion of the light through a first set of optical elements to provide a first wide-field beam, transmitting the second portion of the light through a second set of optical elements to provide a second wide-field beam that is spatially separated from the first wide-field beam, and transmitting the second wide-field beam through a third set of optical elements to provide a plurality of separate light patterns. The method further includes concurrently projecting the first wide-field beam and the plurality of separate light patterns onto an optically recordable medium to form a holographic 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.