A device and a method for manufacturing holographic optical elements. The device includes at least two partial light beams and one interference light beam, one deformable mirror in each case per partial light beam, a control unit, which is configured to actuate the deformable mirrors to adapt a wavefront of the partial light beam, and a holographic film. The deformable mirrors are situated so as to each reflect precisely one partial light beam and to direct the reflected partial light beam on the holographic film, and the interference light beam being directed on the holographic film to interfere with the reflected partial light beams so as to simultaneously generate at least two holographic optical elements.

Provided is a holographic display apparatus. A holographic image display apparatus includes: a light source configured to emit light, the light source including a plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) that are spaced apart from one another; a spatial light modulator configured to, based on a hologram data signal, modulate the light emitted by the light source; and a focusing optical system configured to focus an image formed by the spatial light modulator using a Maxwellian view method.

A holographic recording system includes a linear translation stage configured to position a holographic material layer, a light source configured to emit a laser beam, a beam splitting subsystem configured to split the laser beam into a first light beam and a second light beam and direct the second light beam towards the holographic material layer, a spatial-light modulator configured to implement a fringe pattern that modulates the first light beam to generate an object beam, a filter configured to filter the object beam, a demagnification optical subsystem configured to demagnify the object beam, and a switchable grating stack configurable to direct the object beam to a set of directions towards the holographic material layer to interfere with the second light beam. In some embodiments, the switchable grating stack includes a plurality of polarization gratings and/or a plurality of switchable waveplates arranged in a stack.

A holographic image film, and a holographic image recording method and reconstruction method are provided. The holographic image recording method includes a preparation step, an irradiation step and a recording step. The preparation step includes stacking a holographic negative film on a transparent substrate. The irradiation step includes emitting object light and reference light. The reference light is emitted into the transparent substrate and undergoes multiple times of total reflections in a thickness of the transparent substrate to form total internal reflected light. The recording step includes generating a holographic image interference line by a mutual interference between the total internal reflected light and the object light, and recording the holographic image interference line on the holographic negative film in a photosensitive manner.

A holographic optical apparatus includes a beam splitting component, a transmission assembly, a focal length modulation component and an optical element. The beam splitting component splits received light into reference light and signal light that are coherent light, and outputs the reference light and the signal light. The focal length modulation component includes a plurality of local length modulation regions with different focal lengths. The optical element includes a recording medium layer with a plurality of recording regions, and each recording region is located in a light-exit path of a focal length modulation region. The transmission assembly is disposed in a light-exit path of the beam splitting component, transmit the reference light to the plurality of recording regions and transmit the signal light to the plurality of focal length modulation regions.

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.

The present description may provide a method of generating a hologram measurement pattern for measuring image quality of holographic display, including: generating a test pattern and a common pattern including at least one grayscale bar; generating measurement pattern data by combining the common pattern with a frame of the test pattern; and generating the hologram measurement pattern by inserting a random phase into the measurement pattern data and an apparatus applied thereto, thereby more accurately measuring the quality of the 3D holographic image reproduced by the holographic display.

The present description may provide a method of generating a hologram measurement pattern for measuring image quality of holographic display, including: generating a test pattern and a common pattern including at least one grayscale bar; generating measurement pattern data by combining the common pattern with a frame of the test pattern; and generating the hologram measurement pattern by inserting a random phase into the measurement pattern data and an apparatus applied thereto, thereby more accurately measuring the quality of the 3D holographic image reproduced by the holographic display.

Provided is a holographic display apparatus. A holographic image display apparatus includes: a light source configured to emit light, the light source including a plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) that are spaced apart from one another; a spatial light modulator configured to, based on a hologram data signal, modulate the light emitted by the light source; and a focusing optical system configured to focus an image formed by the spatial light modulator using a Maxwellian view method.

A holographic image film, and a holographic image recording method and reconstruction method are provided. The holographic image recording method includes a preparation step, an irradiation step and a recording step. The preparation step includes stacking a holographic negative film on a transparent substrate. The irradiation step includes emitting object light and reference light. The reference light is emitted into the transparent substrate and undergoes multiple times of total reflections in a thickness of the transparent substrate to form total internal reflected light. The recording step includes generating a holographic image interference line by a mutual interference between the total internal reflected light and the object light, and recording the holographic image interference line on the holographic negative film in a photosensitive manner.