Abstract:
Described is a holographic film (100) whose transmission and/or reflection properties vary periodically along at least one of its directions of principal extent, said film being designed for at least partial transmission (22, 28) of light (20, 26) of at least one first wavelength range that is irradiated from a multiplicity of periodically disposed illuminants (200) and that impinges on the holographic film (100). Also described are a lighting means (300), a backlighting means and a method for producing a holographic film (100).
Abstract:
A substrate includes a diffracting structure providing a hologram (20, 6). The diffracting structure encodes a holographic image so that thatholographic image is produced in response to reference light being incident on a major surface of the substrate at an angle of incidence with respect to the said major surface of the substrate, wherein the angle of incidence is no more than 20°.
Abstract:
Light modulator displays may be illuminated using a light guide comprising diffractive optics that directs light onto the light modulators. The light guide may comprise, for example, a holographic light turning element that turns light propagating within the light guide onto the array of light modulators. In some embodiments, the holographic element has multiple holographic functions. For example, the holographic element may additionally collimate ambient light or diffuse light reflected form the light modulators.
Abstract:
Light modulator displays may be illuminated using a light guide comprising diffractive optics that directs light onto an array of light modulators. A holographic light turning element may be included with the light guide to turn light propagating within the light guide onto the light modulators. In some embodiments, the holographic element is configured to distribute a substantially uniform amount of light across the array of modulators. The holographic element may, for example, have a turning efficiency that changes along the length of the holographic element. A holographic element can also be used to function as a light bar. Such a holographic element may receive light from a light source such as a light emitting diode and distribute the light along a light guide disposed in front of an array of light modulators.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for performing reproduction position servo-control without reducing the recording capacity of a holographic recording medium. Upon the reproduction of a holographic recording medium 18, part of a reproduction beam serving as a servo beam is projected onto a recording layer 18A of the holographic recording medium 18 from the side opposite to the side of the reproduction beam (a reference beam) along the same optical axis as that of the reproduction beam, and the diffraction beam thereof is detected by a photodetector 26C through a polarizing beam splitter 26B.
Abstract:
A hologram recording film has a hologram image of an object recorded in a volume hologram photosensitive material by holographic duplication and further has a hologram image of an additional information pattern, e.g. a character or an image, recorded superimposedly in the same volume hologram photosensitive material simultaneously with the holographic duplication so that the additional information pattern is reconstructable in a plane with a depth from the hologram plane. Reflection type additional information is recorded in the hologram recording film so as to be reconstructable simultaneously in superimposition with a reconstructed image from the volume hologram. In addition, transmission type additional information that is in mirror image relation to the reflection type additional information is recorded in the hologram recording film so as to be reconstructable simultaneously in superimposition with the reconstructed image from the volume hologram.
Abstract:
A hologram copying system that includes a first reconstruction beam, a second reconstruction beam that is incoherent with respect to the first reconstruction beam, a first master hologram responsive to the first reconstruction beam for producing a first diffracted beam, a second master hologram responsive to the second reconstruction beam for producing a second diffracted beam, and a holographic recording layer responsive to the first and second reconstruction beams and the first and second diffracted beams, whereby a first hologram is formed by interference of the first reconstruction beam and the first diffracted beam, and a second hologram is formed by interference of the second reconstruction beam and the second diffracted beam.
Abstract:
A light spatial modulator typically used with computer holography for modulating incident laser light with respect to two factors of three characteristic factors of a light wave, that is, the amplitude, the phase and the direction of polarization, said modulator consisting of two component modulator means tandemly disposed with respect to the incident light, each for one factor of the light wave to be modulated and each component modulator means including a plate of ferroelectric crystal such as gadolinium molybdate, the polarization of which is changed by application of a voltage.
Abstract:
Described is a holographic film (100) whose transmission and/or reflection properties vary periodically along at least one of its directions of principal extent, said film being designed for at least partial transmission (22, 28) of light (20, 26) of at least one first wavelength range that is irradiated from a multiplicity of periodically disposed illuminants (200) and that impinges on the holographic film (100). Also described are a lighting means (300), a backlighting means and a method for producing a holographic film (100).
Abstract:
Disclosed is a surface relief structure. The structure includes a recording medium configured to be structurally modified when exposed to interfering and non-interfering portions of radiation beams, the structurally modified recording medium including, when viewed in a two-dimensional cross-section along one of the axes of the recording medium a plurality of equally spaced steps of fine-sized periodicity superimposed upon a plurality of deep depressions of substantially coarse-sized periodicity. The structurally modified recording medium is configured to produce in reflection single and multiple colors in a broad spectral range when illuminated by a source of light.