Holographic optical scanning elements: analytical method for determining the phase function

Holographic Optical Elements for Holographic Stereogram Printers

A number of methods for producing holographic optical elements (HOEs) for use in projecting integral images in holographic stereogram printers are presented, with emphasis on application to Ultragram format one-step stereograms. Creation of HOEs to replace standard diffusion screens and enhance stereogram printer imaging properties and efficiency is discussed. Monolithic and integral holographi...

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Holographic Optical Elements and Application

Holographic optical element has a high diffraction efficiency and a narrow-band frequency characteristic, and it has a characteristic that is able to implement several features in a single flat device. It is widely applied in various fields. In this chapter, the principle and characteristics of the holographic optical elements are described in detail, and few typical holographic optical element...

Production of Holographic Optical Interconnection Elements

Current trends in computing and telecommunications point to a growing need for devices that are able to switch optical beams carrying information without having to convert them to electric signals. This would create a whole new generation of hybrid optoelectronic processors combining the computational strength of electronics with the very large information throughput density of optics. Holograp...

Analytic design of optimum holographic optical elements

A method is developed for analytically determining the holographic optical element phase function that is optimum for transforming a set of input wave fronts into a corresponding set of output wave fronts. These sets are allowed to be infinite in the sense that the wave-front phases can be given as functions of continuous parameters. The method can be tolerant of specified wave-front aberration...