Abstract:
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to external, electronically controllable modulators. In one embodiment, a modulating device (100,400) includes a first electrode (104,404), a second electrode (106,406), and an active region (102,402). The active region is configured so that at least a portion of the active region is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. Applying a voltage of an appropriate magnitude and polarity to the electrodes changes the conductivity of the active region which in turn shifts the phase and/or amplitude of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the active region.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for reconstructing a three-dimensional scene in a holographic display. In said method, the 3D scene that is to be reconstructed is decomposed into object points, and one respective object point is encoded as a sub-hologram in the light modulator. Processor means and reconstruction means are provided for calculating and encoding as well as for reconstructing the 3D scene in order to overcome known drawbacks encountered when encoding a hologram and holographically reconstructing the 3D scene in holographic display devices. According to the proposed solution, processor elements are provided for generating a movable two-dimensional grid in the light modulating means (L), forming groups of object points (OPGm) from grid-related object points (OPn), and sequentially encoding the holograms of said groups of object points (OPGm), by means of which intrinsically coherent partial constructions of the groups of object points (OPGm) are generated in a rapid sequence, said partial constructions being incoherent relative to one another. The wave fronts of reconstructed object points are sequentially superimposed within a visible range such that the reconstruction of the 3D scene can be seen as a time-averaged reconstruction.
Abstract:
A spatial light modulator for modulating light field amplitude comprises a surface relief grating adapted to act as a diffractive lens, where a material is used to fill at least one groove of a surface grating structure, such that a controllable refractive index birefringence of the material inside the surface relief grating is controlled by an electric field, which leads to a controllable intensity at a fixed focal point.
Abstract:
A holographic display device (15) comprises an OLED array (12) writing onto an OASLM (13), the OLED array and OASLM forming adjacent layers. The OASLM encodes a hologram and a holographic reconstruction is then generated by the device when an array of read beams (10) illuminates the OASLM. The OASLM is suitably controlled by the OLED array. An advantage of the device is that it lends itself to compactness.
Abstract:
An optical device which can inscribe a pattern not only to a flat surface but also to a curve surface by using a liquid crystal spatial optical modulator, and which has high optical utilization efficiency; an optical device which can form a cube having a curve surface by using a liquid crystal spacial optical modulator, and which has high optical utilization efficiency; and an optical machining system having high versatility by mounting these optical devices on a robot. The optical device includes at least a coherent light source, a liquid crystal spatial modulator for controlling a wave plane of light from the coherent light source, and means for recording a complex amplitude distribution to the liquid crystal spatial optical modulator.
Abstract:
An optical system is described that is adapted to reconstruct an interference light field comprising: a spatial light modulator comprising an array of pixels optically aligned to an optical element comprising an array of light point forming elements formed in a first transparent substrate, each light point forming element including a light receiving area at the light receiving face of the first substrate and an associated light transmitting area at the light transmitting face of the first substrate; the light receiving area of a light point forming element being arranged to receive light from a reference light source and to form a light point that emits light out of the light emitting area; at least one mask element and/or refractive element in each light point forming element causing the locations of the points of light to be arranged a-periodically or randomly in at least one direction in a plane of the substrate; and, the pixels of the spatial light modulator controlling the intensity and, optionally, the phase of the light transmitted by the points of light, the transmitted light forming the interference light field at a predetermined location relative to the optical system.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a display device for holographic reconstruction. The display device comprises a spatial light modulator device (SLM) having combined phase modulating pixels (p) and amplitude modulating pixels (a), an illumination unit (FLU, BLU) generating sufficiently coherent light and arranged to illuminate of the spatial light modulator device (SLM) and a reflection plane (RP). The device being arranged such that light enters the spatial light modulator device (SLM) and passes both the phase modulating pixel (p) and the amplitude modulating pixel (a) of the spatial light modulator device (SLM). The light is reflected by the reflection plane (RP) in between.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a beam combining/splitting modulator, a display apparatus including the same, and a spatial light modulation method. The beam combining/splitting modulator includes a light modulator including first and second modulation regions for modulating light, a polarization converter disposed at a side of an emitting surface of the light modulator and including a first transmissive region for polarizing and converting light incident from the first modulation region to have a first polarization and a second transmissive region for polarizing and converting light incident from the second modulation region to have a second polarization, a birefringence modulator disposed at the side of an emitting surface of the polarization converter and switching between a first state in which birefringence occurs and a second state in which birefringence does not occur, and a polarizer disposed at the side of an emitting surface of the birefringence modulator.
Abstract:
A spatial light modulator for modulating light field amplitude comprises a surface relief grating adapted to act as a diffractive lens, where a material is used to fill at least one groove of a surface grating structure, such that a controllable refractive index birefringence of the material inside the surface relief grating is controlled by an electric field, which leads to a controllable intensity at a fixed focal point.