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14‐4: Invited Paper : A Diffractive LCD Backlight Approach to Dynamic Lightfield Displays
Author(s) -
Aieta Francesco,
Vo Sonny,
Ma Ming,
Niederberger Armand,
Fattal David
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.10625
Subject(s) - backlight , liquid crystal display , computer graphics (images) , computer science , optics , physics
We introduce a novel approach to LCD backlighting that allows for the generation of dynamic lightfields through a single LCD panel. The backlight is based on diffractive nanostructures that are 90% transparent. Full control over the spatio‐angular parameters of the lightfield is achieved, providing new opportunities for the design of naked‐eye 3D displays, heads‐up displays and near‐eye Virtual / Augmented Reality systems.