Holo Display
Three-dimensional display technologies, Adv Opt Photonics. 2013; 5(4): 456–535.
Wikipedia: Volumetric display
Survey of Alternative Displays

Holographic Plates
Holorad

O/LED
3D Volumetric Display using Passive Optical Scatterers
Hypnocube

Spinners - 3D Zoetropes
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Water Vapor Based
Instructables: Fogscreen

Ambient Dust
Holodust

CFD
Gerris_Flow_Solver_Programming_Course_for_Dummies

Polymers
Optical trapping of microalgae at 735–1064 nm: Photodamage assessment

Scanning & Calibration
Fotoopa on Flickr
Exocortex Technologies, Computer graphics and simulation software

Dispersion Hardware & MEMS
Creating a laminar airflow?, Photonlexicon discussion
Turbines
Millimeter-Scale, MEMS Gas Turbine Engines

Plasma
Holografika

Air Breakdown
Plasma Lasers for Shielding - and Advertising, Wired article
Laser FAQ: Air Breakdown
Three Dimensional Images in the Air - Visualization of "real 3D images" using laser plasma
Tesla Down Under

Lenticular
3 Ways to Render 3D Source Art from CG Programs


Lasers and LEDs
diodes sorted by wavelength, K3PGP.Experimenter's.Corner

Red 650nm: AIGaInP - GaAs
TinyProjector, log narrative includes details on common red diodes and insight into the hardware development process
Green 532nm: GaAs(808nm Pump) + Nd:YVO4(1064nm) + KTP (KToOPO4)
Photo breaking down green 532nm (DPSS) lasers
Xenotim - DPSS is easy to construct and powerful, from Diane's Laser Page
Blue 445nm: InGaN - Nd:YVO4(Coated 946nm) + KTP(KToOPO4/β-BaB2O4)
Violet 405nm: GaN - GaAs(808nm) + KTP(KToOPO4)
Yellow 593.5nm: Nd:LuVO4(1343nm) + Nd:YAG(1064nm) KTP(KToOPO4)

LED: Don Klipstein's LED Main Page

Diode Emitter Drivers
Die4LASER.com The guide to soldering grains of sand
Intensify Nx50 laser diode driver
Pulse Circuits for Infrared LEDs and Visible Diode Lasers

Photonic Crystals (PhC)
Photonic Crystal Research, MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.977 Ultrafast Optics, Spring 2005 | Lecture Notes
Inverse Design of Photonic Crystal Devices
Integrated Optical Devices Design by Genetic Algorithm Inverse designed photonic crystal de-multiplex waveguide coupler
Lensless light focusing with the centric marine diatom
Mirasol
Prism
Making DIC Prisms

DMD
MEMS and MOEMS By P. Rai-Choudhury, includes TI DMD details


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