OPTICAL EYEPIECE USING SINGLE-SIDED PATTERNING OF GRATING COUPLERS

    公开(公告)号:US20210271070A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-02

    申请号:US17246936

    申请日:2021-05-03

    Abstract: An eyepiece includes a substrate and an in-coupling grating patterned on a single side of the substrate. A first grating coupler is patterned on the single side of the substrate and has a first grating pattern. The first grating coupler is optically coupled to the in-coupling grating. A second grating coupler is patterned on the single side of the substrate adjacent to the first grating coupler. The second grating coupler has a second grating pattern different from the first grating pattern. The second grating coupler is optically coupled to the in-coupling grating.

    Method and system for tunable gradient patterning using a shadow mask

    公开(公告)号:US10747012B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-18

    申请号:US16705127

    申请日:2019-12-05

    Abstract: A method of depositing a variable thickness material includes providing a substrate and providing a shadow mask having a first region with a first aperture dimension to aperture periodicity ratio and a second region with a second aperture dimension to aperture periodicity ratio less than the first aperture dimension to aperture periodicity ratio. The method also includes positioning the shadow mask adjacent the substrate and performing a plasma deposition process on the substrate to deposit the variable thickness material. A layer thickness adjacent the first region is greater than a layer thickness adjacent the second region.

    DISPLAY DEVICE WITH DIFFRACTION GRATING HAVING REDUCED POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY

    公开(公告)号:US20250020841A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-16

    申请号:US18898376

    申请日:2024-09-26

    Abstract: Diffraction gratings provide optical elements, e.g., in a head-mountable display system, that can affect light, for example by incoupling light into a waveguide, outcoupling light out of a waveguide, and/or multiplying light propagating in a waveguide. The diffraction gratings may be configured to have reduced polarization sensitivity such that light of different polarization states, or polarized and unpolarized light, is incoupled, outcoupled, multiplied, or otherwise affected with a similar level of efficiency. The reduced polarization sensitivity may be achieved through provision of a transmissive layer and a metallic layer on one or more gratings. A diffraction grating may comprise a blazed grating or other suitable configuration.

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