title: Suppression of undesired diffraction orders of binary phase holograms.
abstract: A method to remove undesired diffraction orders of computer-generated binary phase holograms is demonstrated. Normally, the reconstruction of binary Fourier holograms, made from just two phase levels, results in an undesired inverted image from the minus first diffraction order, which is superposed with the desired one. This can be avoided by reconstructing the hologram with a diffuse light field with a pseudorandom, but known, phase distribution, which is taken into account for the hologram computation. As a consequence, only the desired image is reconstructed, whereas all residual light is dispersed, propagating as a diffuse background wave. The method may be advantageous to employ ferroelectric spatial light modulators as holographic display devices, which can display only binary phase holograms, but which have the advantage of fast switching rates.
authors.affiliation: Division for Biomedical Physics, Innsbruck Medical University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maurer
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schwaighofer
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jesacher
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bernet
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ritsch-Marte
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D006696:Holography / Q000379:methods*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity