A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in an optical system. An optical device is arranged to receive a multiplex of many optical signals at different wavelengths, to separate the optical signals into at least two groups, and to process at least one of the groups adaptively.

A holographic imaging device includes a laser device, a laser beam expanding and collimating system and a liquid crystal cell. The laser beam expanding and collimating system is configured to expand a light beam from the laser device and enable the expanded light beam to be transmitted substantially vertically to the liquid crystal cell. An amplitude-transmission coefficient distribution of the liquid crystal cell is determined in accordance with a brightness distribution of holographic interference fringes of an object to be displayed.

An example system includes a master oscillator that provides a master oscillator beam, a first fiber beam splitter that splits the master oscillator beam into a first branch and a second branch, a second fiber beam splitter that splits the first branch into an imaging branch and an amplified characteristic branch, and a compensation branch mixer that mixes the second branch and the amplified characteristic branch into a compensation branch. The example system includes transmission optics that direct the imaging branch to a target location, an imaging mixer that mixes the compensation branch and a reflected image from the target location into an imaging signal, and an acquisition device that receives the imaging signal as a final image. An example system optionally includes a mode matching lens that applies a selected wavefront characteristic to the compensation branch.

An apparatus for hologram interaction is disclosed. A method and system also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus includes an identification module that identifies a first hologram being projected within a space. The first hologram is projected by a first system. The apparatus includes a projection module that projects a second hologram within the space. The second hologram projected by a second system. The apparatus includes a detection module that detects movement and position of the first hologram and an interaction module that controls position and movement of the second hologram to dynamically interact with the first hologram. The first hologram dynamically interacting with the second hologram includes reactions of the second hologram in response to the detected movement and the position of the first hologram.

A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in an optical system. An optical device is arranged to receive a multiplex of many optical signals at different wavelengths, to separate the optical signals into at least two groups, and to process at least one of the groups adaptively.

The invention relates to a display device, in particular a head-mounted display or hocular, having a spatial light modulator and a controllable light-deflecting device for generating a multiple image of the spatial light modulator, which consists of segments, the multiple image being produced at least with a predefinable number of segments which determines the size of a visible area within which a 3D-scene holographically encoded in the spatial light modulator can be reconstructed for observation by an eye of an observer.

Provided is a method and an apparatus for correcting a distortion of a three-dimensional (3D) hologram, in which the method is performed by the apparatus and includes generating a sliced two-dimensional (2D) section of a hologram by slicing the hologram while performing translation in an optical axis direction, obtaining a sharp sliced image of the hologram from a sequence of images of generated sliced 2D sections using a focusing function of a camera, and analyzing a distortion of the obtained sliced image, and using such a method and apparatus may enable correction of a distortion of a 3D hologram independently from a display structure.

Methods, devices and systems are described that enable monitoring the diffraction efficiency of holographic material in real-time while they are being formed. One example method includes directing a reference beam and an object beam toward a holographic material for formation of a diffraction grating and blocking one of the beams for at least a portion of time during which the diffraction grating is being formed. The method further includes, upon blockage of one of the beams, based on power level measurements, determining whether or not a first diffraction efficiency is reached. If the first diffraction efficiency is reached, one of the reference or the object beams is disabled or blocked while the other beam illuminates the holographic material with a particular duty cycle. Further measurements of the diffraction efficiency are made until the final diffraction efficiency is reached.

A LCOS routing device, comprising: an optical input and plurality of optical outputs; a spatial light modulator (SLM) between said input and output, for displaying a kinoform; a data processor, configured to provide kinoform data for displaying said kinoform on said SLM. Said data processor inputs routing and calculates said kinoform data. Said data processor calculates kinoform data by: determining an initial phase pattern for said kinoform; calculating a replay field of said phase pattern; modifying an amplitude component of said replay field, retaining a phase component of said replay field to provide an updated replay field; performing a space-frequency transform on said updated replay field to determine an updated phase pattern for said kinoform; and repeating said calculating and updating of said replay field and said performing of said space-frequency transform until said kinoform for display is determined; and outputting said kinoform data for display on said LCOS SLM.

Examples are disclosed that relate to holographic near-eye display systems. One example provides a near-eye display device, comprising a diverging light source, an image producing dynamic digital hologram panel configured to receive light from the diverging light source and form an image. The near-eye display device also includes and a combiner comprising a holographic optical element positioned to receive light from the dynamic digital hologram panel and to redirect the light toward an eyebox, the holographic optical element being positioned between the eyebox and a view of an external environment to combine a view of the image formed by the dynamic digital hologram panel and the view of the external environment.