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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,290 Views
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18 June 2022

The recent development of the Micro Electromechanical System (MEMS) Phase Light Modulator (PLM) enables fast laser beam steering for lidar applications by displaying a Computer-Generated Hologram (CGH) without employing an iterative CGH calculation a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beam Steering via Arrayed Micromachines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,999 Views
10 Pages

Performance Estimation of Intensity Accumulation Display by Computer-Generated Holograms

  • Jung-Ping Liu,
  • Yu-Chih Lin,
  • Shuming Jiao and
  • Ting-Chung Poon

22 August 2021

The image generated by binary computer-generated holograms (CGHs) always suffers from serious speckle noise. Thanks to the fast frame rate of the binary spatial light modulator, the speckle can be significantly suppressed by intensity accumulation, i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography, 3D Imaging and 3D Display Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,063 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2022

Real-time, simultaneous, and adaptive beam steering into multiple regions of interest replaces conventional raster scanning with a less time-consuming and flexible beam steering framework, where only regions of interest are scanned by a laser beam. C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beam Steering via Arrayed Micromachines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,112 Views
13 Pages

A spatial light modulator (SLM) is a key element in several applications, but it is subject to surface deformation due to manufacturing imperfections or environmental factors. Therefore, the current study aims to analyze and compensate for such defor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Spectral Analysis with Optical Sensors: Modern Approaches and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,029 Views
10 Pages

18 August 2022

The binary computer-generated hologram (BCGH) has attracted much attention recently because it can address the high-speed binary spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a digital micromirror device (DMD) SLM. In this paper, our concern is the developm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Holography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,973 Views
10 Pages

26 August 2022

Phase light modulator (PLM) by MEMS mirror array operating in a piston-mode motion enables a high-speed diffractive beam steering in a random-access and flexible manner that makes a lidar system more intelligent and adaptive. Diffraction efficiency i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beam Steering via Arrayed Micromachines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,477 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2025

This paper presents a hybrid fabrication method for producing anti-counterfeit optical elements on plastic products and surfaces targeting multidiscipline applications such as food, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and electronics industry. Our proposi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,277 Views
17 Pages

28 August 2025

We present a deep learning-based approach to optimize the central angle between adjacent camera viewpoints for the efficient generation of natural 360-degree holographic 3D content. High-quality 360-degree digital holograms require the acquisition of...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
22,403 Views
16 Pages

LCoS SLM Study and Its Application in Wavelength Selective Switch

  • Mi Wang,
  • Liangjia Zong,
  • Lei Mao,
  • Andres Marquez,
  • Yabin Ye,
  • Han Zhao and
  • Francisco Javier Vaquero Caballero

The Liquid-Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulator (SLM) has been used in wavelength selective switch (WSS) systems since the 1990s. However, most of the LCoS devices used for WSS systems have a pixel size larger than 6 µm. Although there a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Networks for Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,569 Views
19 Pages

Computing 3D Phase-Type Holograms Based on Deep Learning Method

  • Huadong Zheng,
  • Jianbin Hu,
  • Chaojun Zhou and
  • Xiaoxi Wang

Computer holography is a technology that use a mathematical model of optical holography to generate digital holograms. It has wide and promising applications in various areas, especially holographic display. However, traditional computational algorit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,220 Views
11 Pages

High Resolution Computer-Generated Rainbow Hologram

  • Takeshi Yamaguchi and
  • Hiroshi Yoshikawa

17 October 2018

We have developed an output device for a computer-generated hologram (CGH) named a fringe printer, which can output a 0.35- μ m plane-type hologram. We also proposed several CGH with a fringe printer. A computer-generated rainbow hologram (CGR...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography, 3D Imaging and 3D Display)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,006 Views
9 Pages

24 May 2019

Holographic three-dimensional (3D) displays can reconstruct a whole wavefront of a 3D scene and provide rich depth information for the human eyes. Computer-generated holographic techniques offer an efficient way for reconstructing holograms without c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography, 3D Imaging and 3D Display)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,010 Views
13 Pages

Computer-Generated Holograms Application in Security Printing

  • Evgenii Y. Zlokazov,
  • Vasilii V. Kolyuchkin,
  • Dmitrii S. Lushnikov and
  • Andrei V. Smirnov

24 March 2022

In the present article the application of computer-generated holograms in security printing was considered. The main subject was creation of informative memory marks based on CGH for automatic read out of the information embedded in this marks that c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holographic Technologies: Theory and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,967 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2024

Traditional methods of hologram generation, such as point-, polygon-, and layer-based physical simulation approaches, suffer from substantial computational overhead and generate low-fidelity holograms. Deep learning-based computer-generated holograph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Holography Imaging Techniques and Applications Using Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,891 Views
14 Pages

22 June 2020

The Gerchberg–Saxton (GS) algorithm is a Fourier iterative algorithm that can effectively optimize phase-only computer-generated holograms (CGHs). This study proposes a new optimization technique for phase-only CGHs based on the gradient descent meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Computer-Generated Hologram for 3D Display)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,543 Views
20 Pages

Diffractive Sensor Elements for Registration of Long-Term Instability at Writing of Computer-Generated Holograms

  • Ruslan V. Shimansky,
  • Dmitrij A. Belousov,
  • Victor P. Korolkov and
  • Roman I. Kuts

6 October 2021

The research and development of methods using of the specialized diffractive microstructure sensors embedded in the pattern of computer-generated holograms (CGH) manufactured on circular and X-Y laser writing systems is discussed. These microstructur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Optical Sensors Technology in Russia 2021-2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,326 Views
12 Pages

Imperfections of Scalar Approximation in Calibration of Computer-Generated Holograms for Optical Surface Measurements

  • Yingying Bai,
  • Zhiyu Zhang,
  • Ruoqiu Wang,
  • Tianbao Chen,
  • Xu Wang and
  • Xuejun Zhang

27 July 2021

Computer-generated hologram (CGH) null correctors are used as accuracy standards for interferometric measurements of optical surfaces and optical systems. Diffractive optics calibrators (DOCs) have been developed to evaluate the phase tolerance of CG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,624 Views
8 Pages

11 January 2019

At present, people are using holographic technologies to shape complex optical beams for both fundamental research and practical applications. However, most of the reported works are focusing on the generation of a single beam pattern based on the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,187 Views
16 Pages

Fast 3D Analytical Affine Transformation for Polygon-Based Computer-Generated Holograms

  • Houxin Fan,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Yaping Zhang,
  • Fan Wang,
  • Wenlong Qin,
  • Qingyang Fu and
  • Ting-Chung Poon

7 July 2022

We present a fast 3D analytical affine transformation (F3DAAT) method to obtain polygon-based computer-generated holograms (CGHs). CGHs consisting of tens of thousands of triangles from 3D objects are obtained by this method. We have attempted a revi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography, 3D Imaging and 3D Display Volume II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,300 Views
15 Pages

Fast 3D Content Update for Wide-Angle Holographic Near-Eye Display

  • Rafał Kukołowicz,
  • Maksymilian Chlipala,
  • Juan Martinez-Carranza,
  • Moncy Sajeev Idicula and
  • Tomasz Kozacki

29 December 2021

Near-eye holographic displays are the holy grail of wear-on 3D display devices because they are intended to project realistic wide-angle virtual scenes with parameters matching human vision. One of the key features of a realistic perspective is the a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Digital Holographic Technology: Imaging Methods and Devices Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,491 Views
20 Pages

High-Precision Depth Map Estimation from Missing Viewpoints for 360-Degree Digital Holography

  • Hakdong Kim,
  • Heonyeong Lim,
  • Minkyu Jee,
  • Yurim Lee,
  • MinSung Yoon and
  • Cheongwon Kim

20 September 2022

In this paper, we propose a novel model to extract highly precise depth maps from missing viewpoints, especially for generating holographic 3D content. These depth maps are essential elements for phase extraction, which is required for the synthesis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,481 Views
11 Pages

26 July 2020

Axicon is an interesting optical element for its optical properties. This paper presents an approach to dynamically generated tunable axicons with a spatial light modulator (SLM). 256-level phase computer-generated holograms (CGHs) were loaded into t...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,122 Views
15 Pages

5 December 2025

High-speed realization of computer-generated holograms (CGHs) is a crucial problem in the field of modern 3D visualization and optical image processing system development. Binary CGHs can be realized using high-resolution, high-speed spatial light mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,097 Views
11 Pages

5 July 2021

Computer-generated holography (CGH) is a notoriously difficult computation problem, simulating numerical diffraction, where every scene point can affect every hologram pixel. To tackle this challenge, specialized software instructions and hardware so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Digital Holographic Technology: Imaging Methods and Devices Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,379 Views
13 Pages

21 September 2022

Holographic communication is a three-dimensional (3D) video communication technology based on computer-generated holograms (CGHs) which has the potential to give users a more realistic visual perception. As this is an emerging field, the encrypted en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Application of Imaging on Digital Holography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,619 Views
17 Pages

A Complementary Approach for Securing and Anti-Counterfeiting of Valuable Documents Based on Encryption of Computer-Generated Hologram

  • Zakaria E. Ahmed,
  • Rania M. Abdelazeem,
  • Yasser A. Attia,
  • Tawfik A. Khattab,
  • Claas Falldorf,
  • Ralf B. Bergmann and
  • Mostafa Agour

10 April 2025

We present a novel approach for securing valuable documents using a complementary approach based on the encryption of computer-generated holograms (CGHs). The proposed approach utilizes the well-known iterative Fourier transform algorithm (IFTA) to g...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,729 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2022

In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a parallel coding and two-beam combining approach for the simultaneous implementation of dynamically generating holographic patterns at their arbitrary linear polarization states. Two orthogona...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,014 Views
9 Pages

22 October 2021

Holographic display has the potential to be utilized in many 3D application scenarios because it provides all the depth cues that human eyes can perceive. However, the shortage of 3D content has limited the application of holographic 3D displays. To...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography, 3D Imaging and 3D Display Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,337 Views
17 Pages

Interactive Holographic Display System Based on Emotional Adaptability and CCNN-PCG

  • Yu Zhao,
  • Zhong Xu,
  • Ting-Yu Zhang,
  • Meng Xie,
  • Bing Han and
  • Ye Liu

Against the backdrop of the rapid advancement of intelligent speech interaction and holographic display technologies, this paper introduces an interactive holographic display system. This paper applies 2D-to-3D technology to acquisition work and uses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and 3D Display)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,603 Views
16 Pages

Occlusion Culling for Wide-Angle Computer-Generated Holograms Using Phase Added Stereogram Technique

  • Juan Martinez-Carranza,
  • Tomasz Kozacki,
  • Rafał Kukołowicz,
  • Maksymilian Chlipala and
  • Moncy Sajeev Idicula

A computer-generated hologram (CGH) allows synthetizing view of 3D scene of real or virtual objects. Additionally, CGH with wide-angle view offers the possibility of having a 3D experience for large objects. An important feature to consider in the ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,289 Views
12 Pages

Multiplane Holographic Imaging Using the Spatial Light Modulator

  • Zhongsheng Zhai,
  • Qinyang Li,
  • Xuan He,
  • Qinghua Lv,
  • Wei Feng,
  • Zhen Zeng and
  • Xuanze Wang

27 August 2023

The optimization of imaging accuracy and speed is a crucial issue in the development of computer-generated holograms (CGH) for three-dimensional (3D) displays. This paper proposes an optimized iterative algorithm based on the angular spectrum method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,206 Views
21 Pages

Mixed-scene holographic 3D display for film and television visual content presentation remains challenging because recorded digital holograms and computer-generated holograms (CGHs) are produced under different numerical and hardware constraints. Dir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Holography and 3D Display)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,276 Views
16 Pages

9 April 2025

This work presents an optical encryption process for various types of information related to 3D worlds (scenes) or 2D images, utilizing Computer-Generated Holograms (CGHs). It also introduces a modification to the Dual Random Phase Encoding (DRPE) en...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,210 Views
9 Pages

10 March 2022

We introduce a holographic wide angle system that combines the accuracy of a long focal length with the extended field of view of a wide angle lens. To accomplish this, we use a computer-generated hologram (CGH) in front of the lens to diffract light...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,032 Views
16 Pages

Due to the lack of rotational symmetry, off-axis two-mirror freeform optical systems usually exhibit coupled alignment degrees of freedom and poor sensitivity-matrix conditioning, which increase the difficulty of alignment. To address this issue, a g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,374 Views
9 Pages

Flexible Method for Generating Arbitrary Vector Beams Based on Modified Off-Axis Interference-Type Hologram Encoding

  • Zhiyu Liu,
  • Yiyan Xie,
  • Wenxu Zhu,
  • Qianqian Fu,
  • Feilong Gao,
  • Guoru Li,
  • Yiran Wang,
  • Xiancui Su,
  • Bingyuan Zhang and
  • Santosh Kumar

8 December 2022

A novel experimental setup for the generation of arbitrary vector beams is proposed. The system major includes two reflective liquid crystal spatial light modulators (RLC-SLM) and a polarizing beam splitting prism. Moreover, this method is not limite...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,852 Views
10 Pages

Design of the Polarization-Independent Wavelength Multiplexing Holographic Metasurface

  • Tianyu Zhao,
  • Yihui Wu,
  • Yi Xing,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Jie Wu and
  • Wenchao Zhou

30 January 2023

Metasurface regulates the polarization, phase, amplitude, frequency, and other characteristics of electromagnetic waves through the subwavelength microstructure. By using its polarization characteristics, it can realize the functions of optical rotat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Active/Reconfigurable Metasurfaces)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,998 Views
11 Pages

26 August 2022

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) holography has been developed and implemented as a vital method for optical encryption. However, OAM holography can only be encoded and decoded with an OAM beam, which limits the level of optical encryption. Her...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications of Photonics, Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,002 Views
12 Pages

26 January 2026

High-precision centering alignment of the lens is crucial for ensuring the imaging quality of refractive optical systems. A multi-zone computer-generated hologram (MZ-CGH) was designed and utilized for centering a large-aperture refractive infrared l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Optical Measurement Techniques and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,749 Views
12 Pages

Simplified Aberration Analysis Method of Holographic Waveguide Combiner

  • Wei-Chia Su,
  • Shao-Kui Zhou,
  • Bor-Shyh Lin and
  • Wen-Kai Lin

10 September 2020

Generally, the diffractive waveguide combiner and computer-generated hologram (CGH) technique have the potential to achieve compact head-mounted display (HMD) with a natural 3D display function. However, the diffractive waveguide combiner will degrad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,039 Views
11 Pages

Metalens Eyepiece for 3D Holographic Near-Eye Display

  • Chang Wang,
  • Zeqing Yu,
  • Qiangbo Zhang,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Chenning Tao,
  • Fei Wu and
  • Zhenrong Zheng

26 July 2021

Near-eye display (NED) systems for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been rapidly developing; however, the widespread use of VR/AR devices is hindered by the bulky refractive and diffractive elements in the complicated optical syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanophotonics and Integrated Optics Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
803 Views
14 Pages

A Fast Autofocus System Based on the Advancement of the CGH Algorithm

  • Jianing Liu,
  • Ping Jiang,
  • Huajun Yang,
  • Dongying Wang,
  • Pengjie Wang and
  • Weiwei Zhou

12 January 2026

Traditional CGH algorithms often face a trade-off between computational efficiency and reconstruction fidelity. In this study, we propose a hybrid hologram synthesis framework that combines geometric and physical optics to generate phase-only hologra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,201 Views
11 Pages

The Methods and Experiments of Shape Measurement for Off-Axis Conic Aspheric Surface

  • Shijie Li,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Weiguo Liu,
  • Haifeng Liang,
  • Yi Xie and
  • Xiaoqin Li

1 May 2020

The off-axis conic aspheric surface is widely used as a component in modern optical systems. It is critical for this kind of surface to obtain the real accuracy of the shape during optical processing. As is widely known, the null test is an effective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface and Interface Engineering for Organic Device Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,643 Views
12 Pages

Photocurable three-dimensional (3D) printing is a stepwise layer-by-layer fabrication process widely used in the manufacture of highly specialized objects. Current 3D printing techniques are easily implemented; however, the build rate is slow and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
422 Views
15 Pages

Wavefront-Based Error Calibration for Coordinate Measuring Machines in the Surface Metrology of Large Optics

  • Juliana Mei-Yuk Tam,
  • Henry Wong,
  • Yixiao Han,
  • Gang Jin and
  • Hester Yuk-Ting Chow

Precise measurement of large mirrors is essential for high-performance space-based optics. Traditionally, laser interferometry provides high accuracy but faces challenges related to the requirements of computer-generated holograms (CGHs) and the tran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Estimation and Prediction of Coordinate Measurement Uncertainty: Recent Trends and Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,443 Views
19 Pages

Process Chain for Ultra-Precision and High-Efficiency Manufacturing of Large-Aperture Silicon Carbide Aspheric Mirrors

  • Bo Zhong,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Lian Zhou,
  • Jing Hou,
  • Baojian Ji,
  • Wenhui Deng,
  • Qiancai Wei,
  • Chunjin Wang and
  • Qiao Xu

27 March 2023

A large-aperture silicon carbide (SiC) aspheric mirror has the advantages of being light weight and having a high specific stiffness, which is the key component of a space optical system. However, SiC has the characteristics of high hardness and mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Ultra-Precision Machining, Volume II)
  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
15,282 Views
15 Pages

Pursuing High Quality Phase-Only Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) Devices

  • Huang-Ming Philip Chen,
  • Jhou-Pu Yang,
  • Hao-Ting Yen,
  • Zheng-Ning Hsu,
  • Yuge Huang and
  • Shin-Tson Wu

21 November 2018

Fine pixel size and high-resolution liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) backplanes have been developed by various companies and research groups since 1973. The development of LCoS is not only beneficial for full high definition displays but also to spat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Liquid Crystal on Silicon Devices: Modeling and Advanced Spatial Light Modulation Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,521 Views
17 Pages

Pulse Burst Generation and Diffraction with Spatial Light Modulators for Dynamic Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing

  • Zheng Fang,
  • Tong Zhou,
  • Walter Perrie,
  • Matthew Bilton,
  • Jörg Schille,
  • Udo Löschner,
  • Stuart Edwardson and
  • Geoff Dearden

18 December 2022

A pulse burst optical system has been developed, able to alter an energetic, ultrafast 10 ps, 5 kHz output pulse train to 323 MHz intra-burst frequency at the fundamental 5 kHz repetition rate. An optical delay line consisting of a beam-splitting pol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Laser Microfabrication)