Holographic display with LED illumination based on phase-only spatial light modulator

Yan Zhao; Liangcai Cao; Hao Zhang; Qingsheng He

doi:10.1117/12.999913

27 November 2012 Holographic display with LED illumination based on phase-only spatial light modulator

Yan Zhao, Liangcai Cao, Hao Zhang, Qingsheng He

Proceedings Volume 8559, Information Optics and Optical Data Storage II; 85590B (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999913
Event: Photonics Asia, 2012, Beijing, China

Abstract

A new holography display technology based on a phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) is proposed. The normal use of laser diode (LD) light source led to the inevitable speckle noise introduced by the coherence of the laser beam. Algorithms and special diffractive optical elements have been proposed to reduce the speckle noise. In this paper, a selected light-emitted diode (LED) light source was used in the holographic display system to replace the LD light source. The temporal coherence and spatial coherence of the LED were studied. Though the temporal coherence of LED is short, the spatial coherence of the light field can be improved by optimizing the optical paths such as decreasing the emitting area of the light source and so on. A high-power LED with a narrow band-width was selected. An algorithm to generate computer-generated hologram for the SLM was proposed. The phase-only holograms for the display were computed using the coherent light algorithm. Then the phase holograms were uploaded to the SLM. LED was used as the light source to illuminate the SLM uniformly, and the reconstructions can be observed by naked eye. It is demonstrated that LED is an acceptable light source for holographic display. The reconstruction results showed that the speckle noise and multiple reflections were eliminated when LED was used as the light source.

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Yan Zhao, Liangcai Cao, Hao Zhang, and Qingsheng He "Holographic display with LED illumination based on phase-only spatial light modulator", Proc. SPIE 8559, Information Optics and Optical Data Storage II, 85590B (27 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.999913

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