Table 1 Characteristics of the holographic displays

From: Ultrathin wide-angle large-area digital 3D holographic display using a non-periodic photon sieve

System

Pixel pitch

Pixels (modes)

Screen size

Viewing angle

Contrast factor

Hamamatsu, phase-only SLM

20 µm

800 × 600

1.2 cm × 1.6 cm

1.5°

–

Texas Instruments, DMD

5.4 µm

1920 × 1080

1.04 cm × 0.58 cm

5.6°

–

Holoeye, 10 Megapixel SLM

3.74 µm

4160 × 2464

1.60 cm × 0.94 cm

8.2°

–

Holoeye, transmissive SLM

36 µm

1024 × 768

3.68 cm × 2.76 cm

0.8°

–

System by Yu et al.26

~0.5 µma

128 × 128

4.2 cm in diameter

~60°

~1671

Proposed system

~2.2 µmb

1024 × 768

3.68 cm × 2.76 cm

~30°

~200,000

  1. Characteristics of the holographic display with the non-periodic photon sieve are compared with that of the commercially available SLMs, and the previously proposed holographic display. A graphical illustration is provided in Supplementary Figure 6.
  2. aEffective pixel pitch corresponding to the diffraction angle
  3. bPinhole size