Tomoyoshi SHIMOBABA and Tomoyoshi ITO^1,2

Computational Science Division, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
¹Information Infrastructure and Applications, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)²Department of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

(Received June 5, 2003; Accepted July 14, 2003)

3D-TV systems by holography technique have been studied in the world. In this paper, we report a color holographic reconstruction system by time division multiplexing method with reference lights of laser. The method can reconstruct a color holographic image by switching reference lights of red, green and blue colors at certain intervals. We can observe a color holographic image using red and green lasers as the reference lights, a high minute liquid crystal display (LCD) panel as a spatial light modulator (SLM) and electro-shutters as the shuttering device of the laser lights in the optical system. This approach has some advantages. Namely, the structure of the optical system can be simple and the number of LCD panels in the optical system can be decreased.

Key words: 3D-TV, computer generated hologram, hologram, holography, liquid crystal display, time division multiplexing