Design of a large field-of-view see-through near to eye display with two geometrical waveguides
Author(s) -
Jianming Yang,
Patrice Twardowski,
P. Gérard,
Joël Fontaine
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
optics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1071-2763
pISSN - 0146-9592
DOI - 10.1364/ol.41.005426
Subject(s) - optics , optical transfer function , distortion (music) , coupling (piping) , physics , field of view , prism , modulation (music) , field (mathematics) , computer science , optoelectronics , materials science , acoustics , mathematics , pure mathematics , amplifier , cmos , metallurgy
A novel waveguide near to eye display (WGNED), with new in-coupling and propagation subsystems, is proposed for the first time, to our knowledge, to enlarge the vertical field-of-view (FOV) and the vertical size of the eye box. Two waveguides are stacked-one is for in-coupling and the other for out-coupling. A freeform prism is used to correct the aberrations. These components are combined to form the WGNED. We have simulated such a system; as a result, we show that it achieves a FOV of 30°horizontal (H)×60°vertical (V) and an eye box of about 15 mm (H)×12 mm (V). The modulation transfer function of the system is larger than 0.3 at 33 lp/mm and the distortion is smaller than 5%.
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