Interactive computation of holograms using a look-up table

Mark E. Lucente

doi:10.1117/12.133376

1 January 1993 Interactive computation of holograms using a look-up table

Mark E. Lucente

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 2, Issue 1, (January 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.133376

Abstract

Several methods of increasing the speed and simplicity of the computation of off-axis transmission holograms are presented, with applications to the real-time display of holographic images. The bipolar intensity approach allows for the real-valued linear summation of interference fringes, a factor of 2 speed increase, and the elimination of image noise caused by object self-interference. An order of magnitude speed increase is obtained through the use of a precomputed look-up table containing a large array of elemental interference patterns corresponding to point source contributions from each of the possible locations in image space. Results achieved using a data-parallel supercomputer to compute horizontal-parallax-only holographic patterns containing six megasamples indicate that an image comprised of 10,000 points with arbitrary brightness (gray scale) can be computed in under 1 s. Implemented on a common workstation, the look-up table approach increases computation speed by a factor of 43.

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Mark E. Lucente "Interactive computation of holograms using a look-up table," Journal of Electronic Imaging 2(1), (1 January 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.133376

Published: 1 January 1993

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