Computing high quality phase-only holograms for holographic displays

Praneeth Chakravarthula, Yifan Peng, Joel Kollin, Felix Heide, Henry Fuchs

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Abstract

Holography has demonstrated potential to achieve a wide field of view, focus supporting, optical see-through augmented reality display in an eyeglasses form factor. Although phase modulating spatial light modulators are becoming available, the phase-only hologram generation algorithms are still imprecise resulting in severe artifacts in the reconstructed imagery. Since the holographic phase retrieval problem is non-linear and non-convex and computationally expensive with the solutions being non-unique, the existing methods make several assumptions to make the phase-only hologram computation tractable. In this work, we deviate from any such approximations and solve the holographic phase retrieval problem as a quadratic problem using complex Wirtinger gradients and standard first-order optimization methods. Our approach results in high-quality phase hologram generation with at least an order of magnitude improvement over existing state-of-the-art approaches.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOptical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR)
EditorsBernard C. Kress, Christophe Peroz
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510633872
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventOptical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR) 2020 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Feb 2 2020 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11310
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceOptical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR) 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period2/2/20 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Augmented reality
  • Holographic displays
  • Near eye display
  • Phase retrieval
  • Phase-only holograms
  • Vergence-accommodation conflict
  • Wide field of view

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