Optimal Sampled Phase-Only Hologram (Ospoh)

A sampled phase-only hologram (SPOH) is the phase component of the hologram of an object image with pixels being sampled with a periodic grid-cross pattern. The reconstructed image of a SPOH is a sparse image with abundant empty voids and degradation in sharpness and contrast. In this paper we proposed a method based on a new sampling scheme, together with stochastic binary search (SBS), to obtain an optimal sampling lattice that can be applied to generate phase-only holograms with enhanced reconstructed image. Experimental results show that with our proposed method, the fidelity and quality of the reconstructed image are increased. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement