Digital holographic three-dimensional display of 50-Mpixel holograms using a two-axis scanning mirror device

Ridwan Bin Adrian Tanjung; Xuewu Xu; Xinan Liang; Sanjeev Solanki; Yuechao Pan; Farzam Farbiz; Baoxi Xu; Chong Tow Chong

doi:10.1117/1.3309476

1 February 2010 Digital holographic three-dimensional display of 50-Mpixel holograms using a two-axis scanning mirror device

Ridwan Bin Adrian Tanjung, Xuewu Xu, Xinan Liang, Sanjeev Solanki, Yuechao Pan, Farzam Farbiz, Baoxi Xu, Chong Tow Chong

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 2, 025801 (February 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3309476

Abstract

The current limitation in pixel count of a single spatial light modulator (SLM) is one of the technological hurdles that must be overcome to produce a holographic 3-D display with a large image size. A conventional approach is to tile subholograms that are predivided from a reconfigurable computer-generated hologram (CGH) with a high pixel count. We develop a new approach to achieve a 50 Mpixel display by tiling reconstructed subholograms computed from a predivided 3-D object. The tiling is done using a two-axis scanning mirror device with a new tiling sequence. A shutterless system design is also implemented to enable effective tiling of subholograms. A high-speed digital micromirror device (DMD) at 6 kHz with 1920×1080 pixels is utilized to reconstruct the subholograms. Our current system shows the potential to tile up to 120 subholograms, which corresponds to about 240 Mpixels. The approach we demonstrate gives a scalable solution to achieve a gigapixel-level display in the future.

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Ridwan Bin Adrian Tanjung, Xuewu Xu, Xinan Liang, Sanjeev Solanki, Yuechao Pan, Farzam Farbiz, Baoxi Xu, and Chong Tow Chong "Digital holographic three-dimensional display of 50-Mpixel holograms using a two-axis scanning mirror device," Optical Engineering 49(2), 025801 (1 February 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3309476

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