Photopolymers that absorb in the visible spectrum are useful for different applications such as in the development of holographic memories, holographic optical elements or as holographic recording media. Photopolymers have an undesirable feature, the toxicity of their components and their low environmental compatibility, particularly if we analyse the life cycle of the devices made with these m...

The craze for miniaturization has swept o’er most every nation, but should a hand e’er so slightly tremble no micro-machine can it assemble: and so all those really small bits leave the technicians in fits and the hope for a lab on a chip might seem frightfully flip. Yet, while optical forces are weak they provide the control that we seek. When light’s holographically defined, HOT opportunities...

Optical trapping is an increasingly important technique for controlling and probing the structure of matter at length scales ranging from nanometers to millimeters. This Article describes methods for creating large numbers of high-quality optical traps in arbitrary three-dimensional configurations and dynamically reconfiguring them under computer control. The resulting traps’ unique capacity fo...

The concept and instantiation of real-time tomographic holography (RTTH) for augmented reality is presented. RTTH enables natural hand-eye coordination to guide invasive medical procedures without requiring tracking or a head-mounted device. It places a real-time virtual image of an object's cross section into its actual location, without noticeable viewpoint dependence (e.g., parallax error). ...

We present a novel autostereoscopic optical see-through system for Augmented Reality (AR). It uses a transparent holographic optical element (HOE) to separate the views produced by two, or more, digital projectors. It is a minimally intrusive AR system that does not require the user to wear special glasses or any other equipment, since the user will see different images depending on the point o...

A novel design of dynamic holographic stereogram with a curved array of spatial light modulators (SLMs) is proposed. In general, it is difficult to simultaneously achieve a wide viewing angle and an available width for the digital holographic display. Moreover, the wide viewing angle of a display system needs a large optical numerical aperture where the paraxial approximation fails, and thus an...

Since its discovery, holographic techniques had been proved to be one of the most powerful tools for controlling the optical field in almost all the optical areas [1,2,3]. Just to mention some ones, these techniques had been used in the design of hybrid lenses to decrease or avoid aberrations, in optical metrology it had been used to analyze the vibration modes in order to detect potential risk...