High-resolution three-dimensional holographic display using dense ray sampling from integral imaging

We present a high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) holographic display using a set of elemental images obtained by passive sensing integral imaging (II). Hologram calculations using a high-density ray-sampling plane are achieved from the elemental images captured by II. In II display, ray sampling by lenslet array and light diffraction limits the achievable resolution. Our approach can improve the resolution since target objects are captured in focus and then light-ray information is interpolated and resampled with higher density on ray-sampling plane located near the object to be converted into the wavefront. Numerical experimental results show that the 3D scene, composed of plural objects at different depths from the display, can be reconstructed with order of magnitude higher resolution by the proposed technique. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America