Computer-Generated Holography (CGH)

Joel E. Tohline, Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University

	Preface
	How I got into this stuff (by J.E. Tohline) "Interactive Three-Dimensional Holographic Displays: Seeing the Future in Depth" (by Mark Lucente).  This is a great overview of how CGH is done, from start to finish. Do It Yourself Holography Kits From the perspective of a Large Format Holography Business (by Simon Edhouse)
I.	Apertures that are Parallel to the Image Screen:
	One-dimensional Aperture Two-dimensional, Rectangular Aperture Relevance to Holograms Caution and Words of Wisdom
II.	Apertures that are Tilted with Respect to the Image Screen:
	One-dimensional Aperture Two-Dimensional, Rectangular Aperture Euler Angle Coordinate Transformations
III.	Building Holograms from VRML Files:
	Introduction Understanding How Object Surfaces are Specified in VRML Files Triangular Aperture

• DISCOVERY PAPER:    Gabor, Dennis, (1948) "A New Microscopic Principle," Nature, 161, 777.

• Born, M. and Wolf, E. (1980) "Principles of Optics," 3rd Edition. New York: Pergamon Press.
  [See especially §§ 8.5 and 8.10.]

• Leseberg, D. and Frère, C. (15 July 1988) "Computer-Generated Holograms of 3-D Objects Composed of Tilted Planar Segments," Applied Optics, 27, 3020-3024.

• Macgregor, A.E. (September, 1992), "Computer Generated Holograms from Dot Matrix and Laser Printers," American Journal of Physics, 60, 839-846.

• Nishikawa, O., Okada, T., Yoshikawa, H., Sato, K. and Honda, T. (February, 1997), "High-Speed Holographic-Stereogram Calculation Method Using 2D FFT," SPIE Proceedings of Diffractive and Holographic Device Technologies and Applications IV, 3010, paper # 3010-10.

• Patorski, K. (1983) "Fraunhofer Diffraction patterns of Tilted Planar Objects," Optica Acta, 30, 673-679.

• Rabal, H.J., Bolognini, N., and Sicre, E.E. (1985) "Diffraction by a Tilted Aperture. Coherent and Partially Coherent Cases," Optica Acta, 32, 1309.

• Trester, S. (April, 1996), "Computer Simulated Holography and Computer Generated Holograms," American Journal of Physics, 64, 472-478.

See also the list of references supplied by Mark Lucente in his 1994, MIT Ph.D. Dissertation.

Other interesting and useful links regarding CGH:

• The Spatial Imaging Group within MIT's Media Lab.

  See especially, Mark Lucente's work on electro-holography (Holovideo), and publications resulting from his Ph.D. Dissertation.

• Research into CGH at Nihon University, Japan.
  Principal researcher is Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa

• Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany
  Department of Document Imaging