Abstract

A holographic super multi-view (SMV) Maxwellian display based on flexible wavefront modulation is proposed for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. It solves the issue that the previous holographic Maxwellian displays could not provide depth cues for monocular vision. Different from the previous methods, two or more parallax images are multiplied by quadric phase distributions and converged to the viewpoints existing in the pupil to provide 3-D vision. A time division method is proposed to eliminate the cross talk caused by the coherence of different spherical waves. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can accurately reconstruct images at different depth without cross talk. The proposed method inherits the previous holographic Maxwellian display's advantages of flexible viewpoint position adjustment and large depth of field (DOF). Superior to geometric optics based SMV displays, the proposed system is compact without lens aberration since only a single spatial light modulator (SLM) is needed without any additional optical elements.

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