Optical: systems and elements – Holographic system or element – Using a hologram as an optical element
Patent
1994-12-20
1996-03-05
Sikes, William L.
Optical: systems and elements
Holographic system or element
Using a hologram as an optical element
359 3, 359 6, 359 9, 359 10, 359 11, 359 30, 359 40, 359 93, G02F 1133, G02F 108, G02F 110, G03H 102
Patent
active
054972540
ABSTRACT:
An optical apparatus for controlling a wave front of a coherent light including at least a coherent light source, an electrically addressable liquid crystal device having a plurality of pixels receiving the light from said light source, and a signal generator for recording a complex amplitude distribution or hologram on the liquid crystal device.
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Amako Jun
Miura Hirotsuna
Sonehara Tomio
Watanabe Yoshio
Seiko Epson Corporation
Sikes William L.
Trice Ron
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