ADAPTIVE LENS ASSEMBLIES INCLUDING POLARIZATION-SELECTIVE LENS STACKS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY

    公开(公告)号:US20210041703A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US16978165

    申请日:2019-03-05

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. In one aspect, an adaptive lens assembly includes a lens stack configured to exert polarization-dependent optical power to linearly polarized light. The lens stack includes a birefringent lens and an isotropic lens contacting each other to form a conformal interface therebetween. The adaptive lens assembly is configured to be selectively switched between a plurality of states having different optical powers.

    BROADBAND ADAPTIVE LENS ASSEMBLY FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY

    公开(公告)号:US20190227375A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-25

    申请号:US16171290

    申请日:2018-10-25

    Abstract: A display device comprises a waveguide configured to guide light in a lateral direction parallel to an output surface of the waveguide. The waveguide is further configured to outcouple the guided light through the output surface. The display device additionally comprises a broadband adaptive lens assembly configured to incouple and to diffract therethrough the outcoupled light from the waveguide. The broadband adaptive lens assembly comprises a first waveplate lens comprising a liquid crystal (LC) layer arranged such that the waveplate lens has birefringence (Δn) that varies in a radially outward direction from a central region of the first waveplate lens and configured to diffract the outcoupled light at a diffraction efficiency greater than 90% within a wavelength range including at least 450 nm to 630 nm. The broadband adaptive lens assembly is configured to be selectively switched between a plurality of states having different optical powers.

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