Multi‐view display with hologram screen using three‐dimensional Bragg diffraction

AbstractMulti‐view function is important to three‐dimensional displays without dedicated glasses. It is the reason that the observers earnestly desire to change their positions freely. Multi‐viewing is also principal to the reality of three‐dimensional (3D) image displayed on the screen. The display of projection type has the advantage that the number of viewing points can be easily increased according to the number of projectors. The authors research on multi‐view projection display with hologram screen. Powerful directionality of the diffracted beam from hologram screen is required unlike two‐dimensional (2D) display. We developed a new method that all diffracted beams satisfied the same Bragg condition and became sufficiently bright to observe the 3D image under usual indoor light. The principle is based on the essential Bragg diffraction in the three‐dimensional space. Owing to such three‐dimensional Bragg diffraction we achieved an excellent hologram screen that could be multiple reconstructed in spite of single recording. This hologram screen is able to answer arbitrary numbers of viewing points within wide viewing zone. The distortion of 3D image becomes also sufficiently small with the method of dividing the cross angle between illumination and diffraction beam.