METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING COMPUTER-GENERATED HOLOGRAMS IN PIXELATED LIGHT MODULATORS

摘要

The object is to largely eliminate the errors which arise in the reconstruction of a hologram, calculated point by point, as a result of the encoding of said hologram into pixels of finite extent. The invention achieves the object by means of a method in which the common wavefront calculated from the object sectional planes (6, 7, 8) is multiplied by the inverse transform of the pixel shape and pixel transparency in the viewer's window (11) before the wavefront modified by the multiplication is transformed to the hologram plane (14) and encoded as an amplitude and/or phase distribution of the hologram in the pixels of the light modulator (9, 91). This method is implemented in a corresponding apparatus which contains an additional memory unit for providing a Fourier transform or its inverse Fourier transform and also a multiplication unit.