Improved spatiotemporal-multiplexing super-multiview display based on planar aligned OLED microdisplays

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 23; no. 17; pp. 21549 - 21564
• Main Authors: Teng, Dongdong, Pang, Zhiyong, Zhang, Yueli, Wu, Dong, Wang, Jiahui, Liu, Lilin, Wang, Biao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 24.08.2015
• ISSN: 1094-4087; 1094-4087
• DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.021549

Through gating spectrum plane of multiple planar aligned OLED microdisplays by a timely sequential manner, a super-multiview (SMV) three-dimensional (3D) display based on spatiotemporal-multiplexing was developed in our previous paper. But an upper limit of the allowable sub-viewing-zones (SVZs) for an OLED microdisplay did exist in the previous system, even if microdisplays with very high frame rates could be commercially available. In this manuscript, an improved spatiotemporal-multiplexing SMV displays system is developed, which removes the above limitation through controllable fusing of light beams from adjacent OLED microdisplays. The employment of a liquid-crystal panel as the gating-aperture array allows the improved system to accommodate multiple rows of OLED microdisplays for denser SVZs. Experimentally, a prototype system is demonstrated by 24 OLED microdisplays, resulting in 120 SVZs with an interval small to 1.07mm.