A method for producing a volume hologram with at least one first area in a first color and at least one second area in a second color includes, providing a volume hologram layer made of a photopolymer; arranging a master with a surface structure on the volume hologram layer; exposing the master using coherent light, wherein light which is incident on at least one first partial area of the surface of the master is diffracted or reflected in the direction of the at least one first area of the volume hologram layer and light which is incident on at least one second partial area of the surface of the master is diffracted or reflected in the direction of the at least one second area of the volume hologram, and wherein the light diffracted or reflected by the first and second partial areas differs in at least one optical property.

Both a hologram and fluorescence are simultaneously captured in a state in which they can be reconstructed separately. A recording device (10) includes: a laser light source (LS1) which irradiates a subject (13) with object illumination light so that object light is generated; and an image capturing device (12) which captures (i) a hologram formed by interference between reference light and object light and (ii) an image of fluorescence, and the object illumination light further excites a fluorescent material (14) contained in the subject (13).

A method of producing information from at least one camera image of an object, including: A) recording raw image data of the at least one camera image, B) evaluating the raw image data by a mathematical linkage to produce combination image data, C) deriving the information from the combination image data, D) outputting the information, E) determining an actual measure for a data quality of the raw image data prior to or after evaluation steps in step B), F) determining a deviation between the actual measure for the data quality and a target measure for the data quality of the raw image data of at least one camera image, and G) again recording all raw image data of those camera images, for which the deviation determined in step F) is greater than a predetermined threshold value and repeating at least one evaluation step from step B) and steps C) to F) either until the deviation determined in step F) for the raw image data of all camera images from the plurality of camera images is less than the threshold value or until a predetermined termination condition is fulfilled.

A method and display apparatus for reducing holographic speckle when displaying holographic images are described. A target image (10) is decomposed into input images (11). A first input image includes higher spatial frequency components of the target image and is imaged using a first display method (12) to generate a first holographic display image. The second input image includes lower spatial frequency components of the target image and is imaged using a second display method (12) to generate a second display image. The first and second display images are combined for display to a user. The second display method (12) is adapted to reduce holographic speckle or include no holographic speckle compared to the first holographic display method (12) thereby reducing holographic speckle in the combined display image (13).

Provided is a waveguide having a light diffraction unit that diffracts incident light by a multiplex-recorded hologram, in which, in the light diffraction unit, a plurality of holograms having different angles with respect to an incident surface of the waveguide are formed, and when certain parallel light beams are incident, different wavelengths are diffracted by the plurality of holograms.

The present invention features new waveguide layouts for input, redirection (expansion), and output holograms that minimize cross talk between colors and allow all three colors to reside in a single waveguide. The use of multiple incoupling holograms that diffract different colors of light in different directions, or along different paths, through a waveguide substrate advantageously provides for a reduction of cross-talk between the colors of a holographic image. In a square-shaped design, red, green, and blue input and output holograms approximately overlay on top of each other. The green redirection hologram is laterally separated from the red and blue redirection holograms. Using this square-shape design, the light beams for the three colors are separated into two paths propagating from input to output holograms.

Provided is a hologram printing method and apparatus using a hologram medium light efficiency map. A hologram printing method according to an embodiment emits a laser to a hologram medium, acquires an image by photographing light diffracted from the hologram medium, generates a light efficiency map of the hologram medium from the acquired image, and records hogels on the hologram medium by referring to the generated light efficiency maps of the hologram medium. Accordingly, light efficiency is measured on each hogel area, and hologram printing is performed by adjusting an intensity of a laser of each wavelength according to a hogel, so that uniformity of luminance and color of a hologram printing result can be enhanced.

A holographic projector comprises an image processing engine arranged to, a hologram engine and a display engine. The image processing engine is arranged to receive a source image for projection. The source image comprises a first colour component and a second colour component. The image processing engine is further arranged to form a first colour secondary image from the first colour component by nulling alternate pixel values of the first colour component in accordance with a first checkerboard pattern. The image processing engine is further arranged to form a second colour secondary image from the second colour component by nulling alternate pixel values of the second colour component in accordance with a second checkerboard pattern. The first checkerboard pattern is opposite to the second checkerboard pattern. The hologram engine is arranged to determine a first colour hologram corresponding to the first colour secondary image and a second colour hologram corresponding to the second colour secondary image. The display engine is arranged to form a first colour holographic reconstruction from the first colour hologram and a second colour holographic reconstruction from the second colour hologram.

A holographic imaging device is disclosed. In one aspect, the holographic imaging device comprises an imaging unit comprising at least two light sources, wherein the imaging unit is configured to illuminate an object by emitting at least two light beams with the at least two light sources. A first and second light beams have different wave-vectors and wavelengths. The holographic imaging device further comprises a processing unit configured to obtain at least two holograms of the object by controlling the imaging unit to sequentially illuminate the object with respectively the first light beam and the second light beam, construct at least two 2D image slices based on the at least two holograms, wherein each 2D image slice is constructed at a determined depth within the object volume, and generate a three-dimensional image of the object based on a combination of the 2D image slices.

An interference imaging device includes a light interference generator that includes: a light wave splitter configured to reflect a part of incident light and to allow a remaining part of the incident light to pass through; a phase modulator configured to modulate a phase of incident light that has passed through the light wave splitter; and a reflector configured to reflect the phase-modulated incident light from the phase modulator so that the reflected, phase-modulated incident light overlaps with incident light that has been reflected by the light wave splitter.