Abstract:
A high speed hologram recording apparatus and method. The hologram recording apparatus includes: a light source for emitting coherent light; a beam splitter for splitting the coherent light emitted from the light source into a signal beam and a reference beam; a signal beam transfer unit comprising an angular deflector that changes a direction of the signal beam according to time, and irradiating the signal beam onto a hologram recording medium; and a reference beam transfer unit irradiating the reference beam at a location of the hologram recording medium where the signal beam is also irradiated.
Abstract:
A photopolymer composition includes a polymer binder; a monomer for holographic recording; a photoinitiation system including an electron acceptor, at least one of an electron donor and a hydrogen atom donor, and a dye-sensitizer; and a solvent. The monomer for holographic recording includes N-acryloylthiomorpholine.
Abstract:
A phase mask includes a phase modulation layer that modulates a phase of different portions of incident light, differently, such that a different optical phase delay, in a range between 0 and 2π is imparted to different portions of the incident light. A hologram recording apparatus includes a light source; a signal beam optical system that divides a beam emitted from the light source into a reference beam and a signal beam, modulates the signal beam according to hologram pixel information, and radiates the signal beam onto a hologram recording medium. The signal beam optical system includes the phase mask. The hologram recording apparatus also includes a reference beam optical system that radiates the reference beam onto the hologram recording medium.
Abstract:
A head up display (HUD) system and an optical element for an HUD are provided. The optical element includes a Fresnel pattern layer configured to enlarge a virtual image for the HUD, a multiband coating layer formed on the Fresnel pattern layer, the multiband coating layer configured to receive light of multiple wavelength bands from a light source and transmit a portion of the light of the multiple wavelength bands based on a transmittance set with respect to the multiple wavelength bands. The multiple bands may include a wavelength band indicating a red light, a wavelength band indicating a green light, and a wavelength band indicating a blue light.
Abstract:
A hologram recording and reproducing apparatus including: a coherent light source; a beam splitter which splits a beam emitted from the coherent light source into a signal beam and a reference beam; a signal beam forming unit which modulates the signal beam split and directs the modulated signal beam onto a hologram recording medium; and a reference beam forming unit which directs the reference beam to be irradiated onto a location on the hologram recording medium which overlaps with a location on the hologram recording medium on which the signal beam is incident, wherein the signal beam forming unit includes: a first light guide member which transmits the signal beam split by the beam splitter; a spatial light modulator (SLM) which modulates the signal beam transmitted through the first light guide member; and a holographic Fourier transformation optical device which focuses the modulated signal beam onto the hologram recording medium.
Abstract:
An optical head for a hologram optical apparatus and a method of operating the same are provided. The optical head for the hologram optical apparatus includes a reference light unit for guiding reference light, a signal light unit for guiding signal light, and a light source unit for providing 1 the reference light and the signal light to the reference light unit and the signal light unit, wherein the reference light unit and the signal light unit are stacked. The signal light unit includes: a plurality of optical waveguides stacked sequentially; composite hologram optical elements and lighting hologram optical elements disposed on the plurality of optical waveguides; an optical modulator for modulating light output from the plurality of the optical waveguides; and a lens for condensing light output from the optical modulator onto a recording layer.