Depth formulation assessment of 1D light field display using self-interference incoherent digital holography

Abstract

Light field display based on a lenticular lens is currently the most commercially available three-dimensional (3D) display system that can only provide one-dimensional (1D) parallax. In this paper, we outline the criteria for evaluating the voxel formulation of a 1D light field display system and experimentally measure its expressible depth range using an incoherent holographic camera. We use self-interference incoherent digital holography with a geometric phase lens to obtain the phase profile of the light field. To analyze the characteristic of the light field display, we reconstruct the incoherent hologram and apply the autofocus algorithm to evaluate the sharpness of formulated light field.

Keywords

• Light field display
• multiview display
• incoherent digital holography
• display quality assessment