This document is an introduction to the design and fabrication of computer generated hologram (CGH) as I understood them back in 1997. At that time, I was visiting Professor Toyohiko Yatagai1 in Japan. I also included in this document a short description of the application ‘DoCGH’ that I wrote to generate simple hologram. This work was supported by a grant of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sc...

Recent noteworthy advancements in the field of incoherent digital holography (the production of 3D images) include optical scanning holography and Fresnel incoherent correlation holography (FINCH) techniques.1, 2 The latter acts as a single channel incoherent interferometer (a device that splits light into two beams and recombines them to produce an interference pattern) and does not require an...

Volume holographic storage combines fast, parallel readout (because each hologram stores a large data page) with high density (because many holograms are multiplexed within the same volume). Phase-conjugate readout has been proposed as a way to eliminate the precision optics that recent demonstrations have relied upon to image the pixels of the input spatial light modulator (SLM) onto those of ...

Optical scanning holography (OSH) records a three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional hologram through two-dimensional optical scanning. The recovery of sectional images from the hologram, termed as an inverse problem, has been previously implemented by conventional methods as well as the use of l₂ norm. However, conventional methods require time consuming processing of section by section...

Methods of generating multiple viewpoint projection holograms of three-dimensional (3-D) realistic objects illuminated by incoherent white light are reviewed in this paper. Using these methods, it is possible to obtain holograms with a simple digital camera, operating in regular light conditions. Thus, most disadvantages characterizing conventional digital holography, namely the need for a powe...

A digital hologram includes not only the light intensity but also the depth information of the 3D (dimensional) object. That is, both the whole amplitude and the phase infor‐ mation are necessary to reconstruct the original 3D object, which are included in the interference pattern between the reference light and the object light. Since a digital hologram signal has much different characteristic...

A digital hologram generated by a computer calculation (computer-generated hologram or capture using charge-coupled device [CCD] camera) is one of the most expensive types of content, and its usage is expanding. Thus, it is highly necessary to protect the ownership of digital holograms. This paper presents an efficient visual security scheme for holographic image reconstruction with a low scram...

Multireference, scan-based near-field acoustical holography is a useful measurement tool that can be applied when an insufficient number of microphones is available to make measurements on a complete hologram surface simultaneously. The scan-based procedure can be used to construct a complete hologram by joining together subholograms captured using a relatively small, roving scan array and a fi...

In combination with charge coupled device (CCD) sensor technology and image processing systems, real time dynamic analysis becomes one of the significant advantages of digital holography. In order to achieve the dynamic analysis, lots of holograms should be recorded and every hologram should be numerical reconstructed. The most popular numerical reconstruction methods for digital holography inc...