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Speaker:        Prof. Ting-Chung Poon
                Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
                Virginia Tech

Topic:          Three-Dimensional Holographic Television
                Using Optical Scanning Holography

Date:           Tuesday, 13 August 2002

Time:           3:30pm - 4:30pm

Venue:          Room 3464
                Phase II (via lift nos. 25/26)
                HKUST


Abstract:

We first review a real-time three-dimensional (3-D) holographic recording
technique called optical scanning holography (OSH) and discuss holographic
reconstruction using spatial light modulators (SLMs).  We then present how
the overall system can be used for 3-D holographic television (TV) display
with a wide-angle view of a 3-D image, and address some of the issues
encountered.  Finally, we suggest some techniques to alleviate the issues
encountered in such a 3-D holographic TV system.

Keywords: optical scanning holography, holographic TV system, holographic
information reduction, twin-image elimination, wireless transmission of
holographic information


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Biography:

Ting-Chung Poon is Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University (Virginia Tech) in the Bradley Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, where he is also Director of the Optical Image
Processing (OIP) Laboratory.  His current research interests include
acousto-optics, hybrid (optical/electronic/digital) image processing,
optical scanning holography, real-time optical recognition of 3-D objects,
3-D holographic display, and 3-D microscopy.  Dr. Poon is the co-author of
the textbook Principles of Applied Optics (Irwin, 1991) and Contemporary
Optical Image Processing with Matlab (Elsevier, 2001).  He has served as a
panelist for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National
Science Foundation (NSF), as Guest editors of, among others, Applied
Optics and Optical Engineering, and is on the editorial board of Optics
and Laser Technology. Dr. Poon is a fellow of the Optical Society of
America (OSA) and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
(SPIE) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.


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