Segmented polarization selective device

    公开(公告)号:US11747655B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US17122311

    申请日:2020-12-15

    IPC分类号: G02F1/01 G02F1/139 G02F1/133

    摘要: A device includes a segmented polarization switch including a plurality of polarization switch segments. The device also includes a polarization selective optical element (“PSOE”) optically coupled to the segmented polarization switch and including a plurality of polarization selective segments. The device further includes a controller configured to control the polarization switch segments to operate in a switching state or a non-switching state to control optical states of the polarization selective segments.

    Systems and methods for eye tracking with spatially varying k-vectors

    公开(公告)号:US11615647B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-28

    申请号:US16696776

    申请日:2019-11-26

    摘要: Systems and method for eye tracking are provided. In some embodiments, the eye tracking system includes a light source configured to generate light and project the light toward an object in a field of view, a detector configured to receive reflected portions of the light from the field of view in order to image the object, and a combiner including a volume grating configured to direct light reflected from different points in a field of view to the light detector. The volume grating includes a plurality of portions along a first area and each of the portions comprising a unique k-vector that is dependent on a respective portion of the field of view.

    Freeform varifocal optical assembly

    公开(公告)号:US11598964B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-07

    申请号:US16854528

    申请日:2020-04-21

    摘要: A freeform varifocal optical assembly includes at least three optical modules including a first plurality of optical elements including Pancharatnam-Berry phase (PBP) lenses, polarization sensitive hologram (PSH) lenses, metamaterials, or combinations thereof. The plurality of optical elements of each optical module include a property associated with a Zernike polynomial. Each of the first and the three optical modules are configurable between a plurality of optical powers. The freeform varifocal optical assembly is configurable to output a predetermined wavefront in response to an input wavefront.

    POLARIZATION-SELECTIVE VARIFOCAL LIQUID LENS
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240319509A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18734641

    申请日:2024-06-05

    摘要: A varifocal liquid lens includes a body filled with two different fluids separated by an interface of a variable curvature across a clear aperture of the varifocal liquid lens. At least one of the first or second fluids is birefringent, such that a refractive index difference between the first and second fluids and resulting optical power of the varifocal liquid lens is dependent on polarization of impinging light. At a first light polarization, the first and second fluids may be matched in refractive index, while at a second, orthogonal light polarization, the first and second fluids may be mismatched in refractive index, whereby the first interface between the first and second fluids may have a variable, non-zero optical power for the second polarization while having a substantially non-variable, zero optical power for the first polarization of light.

    Holographic near-eye display having pupil steering

    公开(公告)号:US11561510B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-24

    申请号:US16517535

    申请日:2019-07-19

    摘要: An optical device includes a light source configured to provide a light beam. The optical device includes a light source configured to generate a light beam, and a spatial light modulator (“SLM”) configured to modulate the light beam to provide a hologram for generating a display image. The optical device includes a polarization-selective steering assembly configured to provide a plurality of steering states for the modulated light beam. The optical device includes an image combiner configured to focus the modulated light beam steered by the polarization-selective steering assembly to generate an array of spots at an eye-box of the optical device.