Multiemulsion on-axis computer generated hologram.
Multiemulsion on-axis computer generated hologram.
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多乳液轴上计算机生成全息图。
作者:
D. Chu;J. Fienup;J. Goodman
Letters to the Editors should be addressed to the Editor, APPLIED OPTICS, AFCRL, Bedford, Mass. 01730. If authors will state in their covering communication whether they expect their institutions to pay the publication charge, publication time should be shortened (for those who do). A key problem in computer holography is the realization of a transparency that controls both the amplitude and phase of a transmitted wave at each point in accord with a computed complex function. There are many approaches to simultaneous amplitude and phase control, including sandwiching of two independent transmitting structures, 1-2 the use of quadrature holograms, 3 carrier frequency holograms, 4 detour phase holograms, 5 and related methods. 6-8 Sandwich transparencies are generally difficult to align properly, and quadrature holograms must be reconstructed in a precision interferometric arrangement. Carrier frequency holograms and detour phase ho-lograms reconstruct twin images; as a consequence, they are both wasteful of resolution, and in computer-generated form are low in realizable diffraction efficiency. Kino-forms 9 make better use of available resolution and can be highly efficient, but suffer a degree of background noise due to the discarding of amplitude information. We wish to report on a new type of computer generated hologram that retains the advantages of a kinoform but provides effective control over both amplitude and phase transmittance. By means of multiemulsion color film, a sandwich filter is recorded with no need for later alignment. An added benefit of this approach is that the film can be purchased and processed through any drug store; the experimentor need not have personal access to any film processing facility. The basic principle we have used can be explained as follows. Color reversal films contain several emulsion layers, each ideally sensitive to light in a different region of the visible spectrum. Our particular experiments have used Kodachrome II, which has three layers sensitive individually to blue, green, and red light. These emulsions give rise to dye images that are predominantly blue absorbing (yellow), green absorbing (magenta), and red absorbing (cyan), respectively. If a developed transparency is illuminated by monochromatic light, such light will be attenuated predominantly by just one of the three emulsions. The other two emulsions, while not attenuating the light, do exert an influence on the phase of the transmitted light, presumably through both relief and index changes (preliminary experiments indicate that both effects play a role). Thus with a judicious pair of exposures …