Augmented reality(AR) glasses are smart wearing devices which is promising to be the next generation computing platform. The most important components in AR glasses is the near eye display module, which can be built dependent on different optics structures, for example, free-form optics, bird-bath and light or wave-guide. The diffractive wave-guide makes it possible to be a colorful near-eye display with high transparency and ultra-small form factor. Compared with other structures, the two-dimensional diffraction grating wave-guide is able to provide larger field of view with certain area, because it can expand and out-couple the light in the same region. To ensure the uniformity of lightness, it requires high flexibility of control on diffraction energy distribution. In this work a new 2D structure is proved as effective and efficient to concentrate light on the desired diffraction orders under different condition. The new structure was optimized by using Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) method. The wave-guide model based on this structure had been simulated by VirtualLab software as a benchmark. The simulation results demonstrate that the uniformity of eye box and field of view is good enough for human perception.
Metasurface is a kind of functional device based on assemblies of subwavelength structures, which can perform multiple operations on light modulation, such as phase, amplitude and polarization modulation. However, due to the difficulty of design and high processing cost of three-dimensional nano-structure, it is far from practical applications. In this paper, we propose a method to replicate the metasurface structure at room temperature using Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL), the process including: use electron beam lithography to fabricate metasurface structure as the master for NIL; transfer the inverse structure of metasurface onto the PET substrate as the working NIL stamp; imprint the metasurface structure into proper UV resist as the metasurface holographic substrate. The imprinted metasurface structure was characterized by SEM, and the image information recorded inside the metasurface structure was reproduced by laser illumination, which proved the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Automatic optimization of diffractive structures is of great interest and has potential applications in see-through near-eye displays. Here, we propose an approach of on-demand design of diffractive elements using the physics-driven topological optimization. The topology is iteratively optimized according to the added constrains in dispersion and angle uniformity. The proposed model provides an effective way for the design of complex electromagnetic components that are essentially irregular and out of the box of human’s designing.
Color rainbow holographic near-eye display with none-overlapping frequency components from color object has been proposed. The resolution, however, is low due to the very small bandwidth of object information used in the calculation. Numerical simulation methods for color rainbow hologram calculation and simulation that allow a certain overlap in the frequency domain is demonstrated in this study to improve the image quality of reconstructed image of color rainbow hologram. Through optical experiments, it has been proved that allowing higher recording bandwidth can improve the display quality.
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