A high-speed one-step holographic stereogram printer has been developed. Since the printer is designed for easy operation under non-laboratory ambient conditions, an anti-vibration table or a dark room is not required. The printing system consists of a high-speed image processing device and a one-step holographic stereogram recording optical system. It takes less than 3 minutes to obtain a horizontal parallax 3D image 8cm x 6cm on DuPont photo-polymer film HRF700X071-20 including image processing time. The printer can be applied to many applications such as computer art graphics, visualization, CAD, medical imaging and so on. As one of the practical applications, an instant portrait printing system is developed. In this paper, we describe several key technologies as well as a practical method for evaluating the image quality produced by one-step hologram printers.
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