Hardware architecture for full analytical Fraunhofer computer-generated holograms

Zhi-Yong Pang; Zong-Xi Xu; Yi Xiong; Biao Chen; Hui-Min Dai; Shao-Ji Jiang; Jian-Wen Dong

doi:10.1117/1.OE.54.9.095101

3 September 2015 Hardware architecture for full analytical Fraunhofer computer-generated holograms

Zhi-Yong Pang, Zong-Xi Xu, Yi Xiong, Biao Chen, Hui-Min Dai, Shao-Ji Jiang, Jian-Wen Dong

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 54, Issue 9, 095101 (September 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.9.095101

Abstract

Hardware architecture of parallel computation is proposed for generating Fraunhofer computer-generated holograms (CGHs). A pipeline-based integrated circuit architecture is realized by employing the modified Fraunhofer analytical formulism, which is large scale and enables all components to be concurrently operated. The architecture of the CGH contains five modules to calculate initial parameters of amplitude, amplitude compensation, phases, and phase compensation, respectively. The precalculator of amplitude is fully adopted considering the “reusable design” concept. Each complex operation type (such as square arithmetic) is reused only once by means of a multichannel selector. The implemented hardware calculates an 800×600 pixels hologram in parallel using 39,319 logic elements, 21,074 registers, and 12,651 memory bits in an Altera field-programmable gate array environment with stable operation at 50 MHz. Experimental results demonstrate that the quality of the images reconstructed from the hardware-generated hologram can be comparable to that of a software implementation. Moreover, the calculation speed is approximately 100 times faster than that of a personal computer with an Intel i5-3230M 2.6 GHz CPU for a triangular object.

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Zhi-Yong Pang, Zong-Xi Xu, Yi Xiong, Biao Chen, Hui-Min Dai, Shao-Ji Jiang, and Jian-Wen Dong "Hardware architecture for full analytical Fraunhofer computer-generated holograms," Optical Engineering 54(9), 095101 (3 September 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.9.095101

Published: 3 September 2015

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