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US 4,542,955 AGranted
Device for illuminating an electro-optical medium for recording holograms in real time
AssigneeThomson-CSF
InventorsPhilippe Graindorge, Herve Arditty
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Abstract
The invention relates to electro-optical media which make it possible to record holograms in real time. It consists in using a lamina of a selected material such as bismuth-silicon oxide, this lamina being subjected to a transverse electric field perpendicular to the fringes of the hologram to be inscribed, and in illuminating this lamina with a light beam which is not coherent with the two object and reference beams which interfere within this lamina.
Claims9
A device for illuminating an electro-optical medium for recording holograms in real time, comprising:
- a source of coherent light producing an object wave intended to illuminate an object and a reference wave;
- an interaction medium, receiving the object wave emerging from the object and the reference wave so that these two waves interfere in this interaction medium to produce interference fringes wherein spatial modulation of light intensity results from the interference fringes induces a spatial modulation of the refractive index of the medium inducing a pattern of strata diffracting a fraction of the reference wave in the form of a wave front in phase with the object wave, said medium being subjected to an electric field perpendicular to the direction of the fringes, and said device comprising in addition a second light source which produces a light beam which is not coherent with the light coming from the coherent light source, which illuminates the interaction medium uniformly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.