Optimization of hologram computation for real-time display

Mark E. Lucente

doi:10.1117/12.59617

1 May 1992 Optimization of hologram computation for real-time display

Mark E. Lucente

Proceedings Volume 1667, Practical Holography VI; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59617
Event: SPIE/IS&T 1992 Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1992, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Several methods of increasing the speed and simplicity of the computation of off-axis transmission holograms are presented, with applications to the real-time display of holographic images. A bipolar intensity approach enables a linear summation of interference fringes, a factor of two speed increase, and the elimination of image noise caused by object self- interference. An order of magnitude speed increase is obtained through the use of precomputed look-up tables containing a large array of elemental interference patterns corresponding to point source contributions from each of the possible locations in image space. Results achieved using a data-parallel supercomputer to compute horizontal-parallax- only holographic patterns containing 6 megasamples indicate that an image comprised of 10,000 points with arbitrary brightness (grayscale) can be computed in under one second.

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Mark E. Lucente "Optimization of hologram computation for real-time display", Proc. SPIE 1667, Practical Holography VI, (1 May 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59617

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