Optical: systems and elements – Holographic system or element – Having defined page composer
Patent
1990-07-17
1992-05-26
Arnold, Bruce Y.
Optical: systems and elements
Holographic system or element
Having defined page composer
358 2, 359 22, G03H 126, G02B 532
Patent
active
051172968
ABSTRACT:
A novel technique for synthetic holography is disclosed. An image combiner such as a hologram comprising a number of independent off-axis holographic optical elements serves to image a set of off-axis regions to images disposed at various distances along an optical axis; this set of images comprises a synthesized three dimensional object wavefront. These images are derived substantially from off-axis incoherent-to-coherent converters, such as liquid crystal light valves illuminated with a laser. A photosensitive medium is exposed to the wavefront comprising the set of sectional images, the 3-D object wavefront, and simultaneously to a reference wavefront composed of a source coherent with that wave source used to illuminate the incoherent to coherent converters. The resulting synthetic hologram can thus be made with one exposure. The 3-D wavefront may be preprocessed to produce, for instance, a one step synthetic rainbow hologram means which may be employed to produce various synthetic color holograms or a synthetic color volumetric display.
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Arnold Bruce Y.
Brown Robert A.
Lerner Martin
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