A new type of multi-viewing zone screen for multiview 3-D display is described. The screen is made by stacking a Fresnel lens and a reflective prism array plate. The screen performs both focusing and beam dividing functions and directs very narrow light beams to three viewing zones for three spectators. The results of experimental testing of the screen have demonstrated that current technology of Fresnel lens and prism grooves on PMMA(Ploymethyl Methacrylate) allows manufacture of screen having a pixel size of about 1-2 mm. This size is reasonable enough for a screen with dimensions about 1m size. Optical qualities of Fresnel lenses and grooved prism arrays achieve an angular resolution for the screen of several angular minutes.

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1. Jung-Young Son, Victor G. Komar, You-Seek Chun, Sergey Sabo, Victor Maiorov, L. Balasny, S. Belyaev, Michail Semin, M. Krutik, and Hyung-Wook Jeon, Proc. SPIE 3295, 218 (1998) [CrossRef]
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4. Takanori Okoshi, Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques (Academic Press, New York, 1976)
5. Jung-Young Son, Victor G. Komar, and Yong-Jin Choi, Proc. of Workshop on 3-D Display Technologies and Human Factor in the Third International Display Workshop (IDW"96), (Kobe, Japan, November 1996) pp. 509-512
6. Seon-Ho Hwang, V.I.Bobrinev, Jung-Young Son, S.A.Shestak, and Hyung-Wook Jeon, Appl. Opt. 36, 6605 (1997) [CrossRef]
7. Jung- Young Son, Vadim V. Smirnov, Jae-Soon Kim, You-Seek Chun, and Kyoung-Tae Kim, Viewing Zone Multiply with a Beam Dividing Prism, 3-D Conference (Tokyo, Japan, July, 1999) p.213
8. Puisha A.E. and S.I.Vavilov, State Optical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia (private discussion)
9. D. Malacara, Optical Shop Testing (John Willy & Sons Inc., New York, 1992). p. 658

Applied Optics

• Seon-Ho Hwang, V.I.Bobrinev, Jung-Young Son, S.A.Shestak, and Hyung-Wook Jeon, Appl. Opt. 36, 6605 (1997) [CrossRef]

Proc. of Sixth International Symposium on Display Holography

• Jung- Young Son, Vadim V. Smirnov, Joo-Hwan Chun, Vladimir I. Bobrinev, Victor G. Komar, and You-Seek Chun, Proc. of Sixth International Symposium on Display Holography, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, USA, (July 21-25, 1997) pp. 337-346

Proc. of the 3-rd Conference on Photonic Information Processing & International Workshop on 3-D Imaging Technology

• Vadim V. Smirnov, Jung-Young Son, and Vadim V. Novoselky, Proc. of the 3-rd Conference on Photonic Information Processing & International Workshop on 3-D Imaging Technology (Seoul, Korea, June, 1998)

Proc. of Workshop on 3-D Display Technologies and Human Factor in the Third International Display Workshop(IDW'96)

• Jung-Young Son, Victor G. Komar, and Yong-Jin Choi, Proc. of Workshop on 3-D Display Technologies and Human Factor in the Third International Display Workshop (IDW"96), (Kobe, Japan, November 1996) pp. 509-512

Proc. SPIE

• Jung-Young Son, Victor G. Komar, You-Seek Chun, Sergey Sabo, Victor Maiorov, L. Balasny, S. Belyaev, Michail Semin, M. Krutik, and Hyung-Wook Jeon, Proc. SPIE 3295, 218 (1998) [CrossRef]

Viewing Zone Multiply with a Beam Dividing Prism, 3-D Conference

• Jung- Young Son, Vadim V. Smirnov, Jae-Soon Kim, You-Seek Chun, and Kyoung-Tae Kim, Viewing Zone Multiply with a Beam Dividing Prism, 3-D Conference (Tokyo, Japan, July, 1999) p.213

Other

• Puisha A.E. and S.I.Vavilov, State Optical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia (private discussion)
• D. Malacara, Optical Shop Testing (John Willy & Sons Inc., New York, 1992). p. 658
• Takanori Okoshi, Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques (Academic Press, New York, 1976)

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