Display-sized full-parallax holograms with large viewing angles require resolutions surpassing tens of Gigapixels. Unfortunately, computer-generated holography is computationally intensive, particularly for these huge display resolutions. Existing algorithms designed for diffraction of typical Megapixel-sized holograms do not scale well for these large resolutions.Furthermore, since the holograms will not fit in the RAM of most of today{\textquoteright}s computers, the algorithms should be modified to minimize disk access. We propose two novel algorithms respectively for short-distance and long-distance propagation, and accurately compute the diffraction of a 17.2 Gigapixel hologram on a standard desktop machine. We report a 500-foldspeedup over the reference rectangular tiling algorithm for the short-distance version, and a 50-fold speedup for the long-distance version.
Blinder, D & Shimobaba, T 2019, 'Efficient algorithms for the accurate propagation of extreme-resolution holograms', Optics Express, vol. 27, no. 21, pp. 29905-29915. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.029905
Blinder, D., & Shimobaba, T. (2019). Efficient algorithms for the accurate propagation of extreme-resolution holograms. Optics Express, 27(21), 29905-29915. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.029905
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title = "Efficient algorithms for the accurate propagation of extreme-resolution holograms",
abstract = "Display-sized full-parallax holograms with large viewing angles require resolutions surpassing tens of Gigapixels. Unfortunately, computer-generated holography is computationally intensive, particularly for these huge display resolutions. Existing algorithms designed for diffraction of typical Megapixel-sized holograms do not scale well for these large resolutions.Furthermore, since the holograms will not fit in the RAM of most of today{\textquoteright}s computers, the algorithms should be modified to minimize disk access. We propose two novel algorithms respectively for short-distance and long-distance propagation, and accurately compute the diffraction of a 17.2 Gigapixel hologram on a standard desktop machine. We report a 500-foldspeedup over the reference rectangular tiling algorithm for the short-distance version, and a 50-fold speedup for the long-distance version.",
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