Large-scale high-quality full-color computer-generated volume hologram fabricated by the stacking and tiling technique

Abstract

A technique is presented to produce very high-quality full-color holographic 3D images in large-scale computer holography, which uses over a billion pixels. In this technique, three large-scale computer-generated holograms, printed using laser lithography, are transferred to three computer-generated volume holograms (CGVH) using a method called tiling contact-copy. Then, the full-color holographic image is created by stacking the three CGVHs. We demonstrate a 10-cm square stacked CGVH that reconstructs full-parallax full-color 3D images at high quality with a viewing angle of more than 35°.