Abstract:
An ultrasonic apparatus (100) for creating a holographic ultrasound field comprises an ultrasound source device (10) being adapted for creating an ultrasound wave (1), and a transmission hologram device (20) having a transmission hologram (21) and an exposed acoustic emitter surface (22), said transmission hologram device (20) being acoustically coupled with the ultrasound source device (10) and being arranged for transmitting the ultrasound wave through the acoustic emitter surface (22) and creating the holographic ultrasound field in a surrounding space, wherein the acoustic emitter surface (22) is a smooth surface which does not influence the field distribution of the ultrasound. Furthermore, a method of creating a holographic ultrasound field in an object (3), wherein the ultrasonic apparatus (100) is used, and applications of the ultrasonic apparatus (100) are described.
Abstract:
A method for lens-free imaging of a sample or objects within the sample uses multi-height iterative phase retrieval and rotational field transformations to perform wide FOV imaging of pathology samples with clinically comparable image quality to a benchtop lens-based microscope. The solution of the transport-of-intensity (TIE) equation is used as an initial guess in the phase recovery process to speed the image recovery process. The holographically reconstructed image can be digitally focused at any depth within the object FOV (after image capture) without the need for any focus adjustment, and is also digitally corrected for artifacts arising from uncontrolled tilting and height variations between the sample and sensor planes. In an alternative embodiment, a synthetic aperture approach is used with multi-angle iterative phase retrieval to perform wide FOV imaging of pathology samples and increase the effective numerical aperture of the image.
Abstract:
A method of projecting a 2D video image, comprising receiving sequential image frames at a processor. Each image frame is processed to obtain a kinoform. A programmable diffractive element such as an SLM (206) represents the sequence of kinoforms allowing reproduction of the image using a suitable illumination beam and further controlling the intensity of the source of illumination (200) to be modulated correspondingly to achieve a uniform overall brightness between frames, in accordance with the number of "on" points in each frame, by pulse-width modulation with a duty cycle proportional to the desired brightness to achieve the required average intensity.
Abstract:
A holographic display device and method of generating a hologram using redundancy of 3D video are disclosed. A storage unit stores the hologram of a previous 3D image frame. A control unit generates an update map indicating an update required 3D point among 3D points included in a current 3D image frame based on the current 3D image frame and the previous 3D image frame and modifies the update map to further include information indicating the update of a 3D point related to the update required.
Abstract:
The invention provides a computer-generated hologram which can be viewed in white at the desired viewing region and a reflective liquid crystal display using the same as a reflector. The computer-generated hologram H is designed to diffuse light having a given reference wavelength λ STD and incident thereon at a given angle of incidence θ in a specific angle range. In a range of wavelengths λ MIN to λ MAX including the reference wavelength λ STD wherein zero-order transmission light or zero-order reflection light of incident light on the computer-generated hologram at a given angle of incidence is seen in white by additive color mixing, the maximum diffraction angle β 2MIN of incident light of the minimum wavelength λ MIN in the wavelength range and incident at the angle of incidence θ is larger than the minimum diffraction angle β 1MAX of incident light of the maximum wavelength λ MAX in the wavelength range and incident at said angle of incidence θ.
Abstract:
The invention, provides a computer-generated hologram which can be viewed in white at the desired viewing region and a reflective liquid crystal display using the same as a reflector. The computer-generated hologram H is designed to diffuse light having a given reference wavelength λ STD and incident thereon at a given angle of incidence θ in a specific angle range. In a range of wavelengths λ MIN to λ MAX including the reference wavelength λ STD wherein zero-order transmission light or zero-order reflection light of incident light on the computer-generated hologram at a given angle of incidence is seen in white by additive color mixing, the maximum diffraction angle β 2MIN of incident light of the minimum wavelength λ MIN in the wavelength range and incident at the angle of incidence θ is larger than the minimum diffraction angle β 1MAX of incident light of the maximum wavelength λ MAX in the wavelength range and incident at said angle of incidence θ.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of projection using an optical element (502,602) having spatially variant optical power. The method comprises combining Fourier domain data representative of a 2D image with Fourier domain data having a first lensing effect (604a) to produce first holographic data. Light is spatially modulated (504,603a) with the first holographic data to form a first spatially modulated light beam. The first spatially modulated light beam is redirected using the optical element (502,602) by illuminating a first region (607) of the optical element (602) with the first spatially modulated beam. The first lensing effect (604a) compensates for the optical power of the optical element in the first region (607). Advantageous embodiments relate to a head-up display for a vehicle using the vehicle windscreen (502,602) as an optical element to redirect light to the viewer (505,609).
Abstract:
The system comprises an SLM (3); means for irradiating a laser beam (1, 2) onto said SLM (3); controlling means (4a, 4b) intended to control said SLM (3) in order to define a CGH corresponding to the desired optical image and intended to be irradiated onto an object (5), by means of the modulated reflection of the phase of said irradiated laser light according to said CGH; and focusing means comprising a Fresnel lens holographically defined onto the SLM (3), to improve efficiency in the use of the irradiated laser light energy. The method comprises carrying out an equalization step of the pixels of one image onto which an IFTA is applied in order to generate a CGH for an SLM.