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公开(公告)号:US12248166B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-11
申请号:US18464732
申请日:2023-09-11
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Dianmin Lin , Mauro Melli , Pierre St. Hilaire , Christophe Peroz , Evgeni Poliakov
Abstract: A display system comprises a waveguide having light incoupling or light outcoupling optical elements formed of a metasurface. The metasurface is a multilevel (e.g., bi-level) structure having a first level defined by spaced apart protrusions formed of a first optically transmissive material and a second optically transmissive material between the protrusions. The metasurface also includes a second level formed by the second optically transmissive material. The protrusions on the first level may be patterned by nanoimprinting the first optically transmissive material, and the second optically transmissive material may be deposited over and between the patterned protrusions. The widths of the protrusions and the spacing between the protrusions may be selected to diffract light, and a pitch of the protrusions may be 10-600 nm.
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公开(公告)号:US11954809B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-09
申请号:US17733391
申请日:2022-04-29
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Melanie Maputol West , Christophe Peroz , Mauro Melli
IPC: G06T15/00 , B29D11/00 , G02B5/18 , G02B6/24 , G02B27/01 , G02B27/42 , G06F3/16 , G06T7/50 , G06T19/00
CPC classification number: G06T19/006 , B29D11/00 , G02B5/1814 , G02B6/24 , G02B27/0103 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/4205 , G06F3/16 , G06T7/50 , G02B2027/0109 , G02B2027/0123 , G02B2027/014 , G02B2027/0178
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. In one aspect, a method of fabricating an optical element includes providing a substrate having a first refractive index and transparent in the visible spectrum. The method additionally includes forming on the substrate periodically repeating polymer structures. The method further includes exposing the substrate to a metal precursor followed by an oxidizing precursor. Exposing the substrate is performed under a pressure and at a temperature such that an inorganic material comprising the metal of the metal precursor is incorporated into the periodically repeating polymer structures, thereby forming a pattern of periodically repeating optical structures configured to diffract visible light. The optical structures have a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index.
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公开(公告)号:US20240036321A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-01
申请号:US18257516
申请日:2021-12-21
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Ling Li , Christophe Peroz , Chieh Chang , Sharad D. Bhagat , Ryan Jason Ong , Ali Karbasi , Stephen Richard Rugg , Mauro Melli , Kevin Messer , Brian George Hill , Melanie Maputol West
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0176 , G02B6/0076
Abstract: In some embodiments, a near-eye, near-eye display system comprises a stack of waveguides having pillars in a central, active portion of the waveguides. The active portion may include light outcoupling optical elements configured to outcouple image light from the waveguides towards the eye of a viewer. The pillars extend between and separate neighboring ones of the waveguides. The light outcoupling optical elements may include diffractive optical elements that are formed simultaneously with the pillars, for example, by imprinting or casting. The pillars are disposed on one or more major surfaces of each of the waveguides. The pillars may define a distance between two adjacent waveguides of the stack of waveguides. The pillars may be bonded to adjacent waveguides may be using one or more of the systems, methods, or devices herein. The bonding provides a high level of thermal stability to the waveguide stack, to resist deformation as temperatures change.
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公开(公告)号:US20230168425A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-01
申请号:US18154833
申请日:2023-01-15
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Mauro Melli , Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad , Christophe Peroz , Pierre St. Hilaire , Dianmin Lin
CPC classification number: G02B6/0063 , G06T19/006 , G02B6/0055 , G02B6/0056 , G02B6/26 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0101 , G02B27/01 , G02B27/017 , G02B27/0093 , G02B27/0944 , G02B2027/0178
Abstract: Display devices include waveguides with metasurfaces as in-coupling and/or out-coupling optical elements. The metasurfaces may be formed on a surface of the waveguide and may include a plurality or an array of sub-wavelength-scale (e.g., nanometer-scale) protrusions. Individual protrusions may include horizontal and/or vertical layers of different materials which may have different refractive indices, allowing for enhanced manipulation of light redirecting properties of the metasurface. Some configurations and combinations of materials may advantageously allow for broadband metasurfaces. Manufacturing methods described herein provide for vertical and/or horizontal layers of different materials in a desired configuration or profile.
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公开(公告)号:US20220163709A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-26
申请号:US17666224
申请日:2022-02-07
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Dianmin Lin , Michael Anthony Klug , Pierre St. Hilaire , Mauro Melli , Christophe Peroz , Evgeni Poliakov
Abstract: Metasurfaces provide compact optical elements in head-mounted display systems to, e.g., incouple light into or outcouple light out of a waveguide. The metasurfaces may be formed by a plurality of repeating unit cells, each unit cell comprising two sets or more of nanobeams elongated in crossing directions: one or more first nanobeams elongated in a first direction and a plurality of second nanobeams elongated in a second direction. As seen in a top-down view, the first direction may be along a y-axis, and the second direction may be along an x-axis. The unit cells may have a periodicity in the range of 10 nm to 1 μm, including 10 nm to 500 nm or 300 nm to 500 nm. Advantageously, the metasurfaces provide diffraction of light with high diffraction angles and high diffraction efficiencies over a broad range of incident angles and for incident light with circular polarization.
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公开(公告)号:US11243338B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-08
申请号:US16672983
申请日:2019-11-04
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Dianmin Lin , Michael Anthony Klug , Pierre St. Hilaire , Mauro Melli , Christophe Peroz , Evgeni Poliakov
Abstract: Metasurfaces provide compact optical elements in head-mounted display systems to, e.g., incouple light into or outcouple light out of a waveguide. The metasurfaces may be formed by a plurality of repeating unit cells, each unit cell comprising two sets or more of nanobeams elongated in crossing directions: one or more first nanobeams elongated in a first direction and a plurality of second nanobeams elongated in a second direction. As seen in a top-down view, the first direction may be along a y-axis, and the second direction may be along an x-axis. The unit cells may have a periodicity in the range of 10 nm to 1 μm, including 10 nm to 500 nm or 300 nm to 500 nm. Advantageously, the metasurfaces provide diffraction of light with high diffraction angles and high diffraction efficiencies over a broad range of incident angles and for incident light with circular polarization.
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公开(公告)号:US20210295601A1
公开(公告)日:2021-09-23
申请号:US17169273
申请日:2021-02-05
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Melanie Maputol West , Christophe Peroz , Mauro Melli
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. In one aspect, a method of fabricating an optical element includes providing a substrate having a first refractive index and transparent in the visible spectrum. The method additionally includes forming on the substrate periodically repeating polymer structures. The method further includes exposing the substrate to a metal precursor followed by an oxidizing precursor. Exposing the substrate is performed under a pressure and at a temperature such that an inorganic material comprising the metal of the metal precursor is incorporated into the periodically repeating polymer structures, thereby forming a pattern of periodically repeating optical structures configured to diffract visible light. The optical structures have a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index.
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公开(公告)号:US10852542B2
公开(公告)日:2020-12-01
申请号:US15912877
申请日:2018-03-06
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Mauro Melli
Abstract: In some embodiments, a display device includes one or more waveguides having a vapor deposited light absorbing film on edges of the waveguide to mitigate ghost images. In some embodiments, the film is formed directly on the edge of the waveguide by a vapor deposition, such as an evaporative deposition process. In some embodiments, the light absorbing films may comprise carbon, for example carbon in the form of one or more allotropes of carbon, such as fullerenes, or black silicon.
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公开(公告)号:US10442727B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-15
申请号:US15862078
申请日:2018-01-04
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Mauro Melli , Christophe Peroz , Vikramjit Singh
Abstract: Plasma etching processes for forming patterns in high refractive index glass substrates, such as for use as waveguides, are provided herein. The substrates may be formed of glass having a refractive index of greater than or equal to about 1.65 and having less than about 50 wt % SiO2. The plasma etching processes may include both chemical and physical etching components. In some embodiments, the plasma etching processes can include forming a patterned mask layer on at least a portion of the high refractive index glass substrate and exposing the mask layer and high refractive index glass substrate to a plasma to remove high refractive index glass from the exposed portions of the substrate. Any remaining mask layer is subsequently removed from the high refractive index glass substrate. The removal of the glass forms a desired patterned structure, such as a diffractive grating, in the high refractive index glass substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US10436958B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-08
申请号:US15723851
申请日:2017-10-03
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Mauro Melli , Christophe Peroz
IPC: G02B5/18 , H01J37/305 , G02B27/42 , H01J37/317 , G02B6/124 , G02B6/136 , G02B27/01 , G02B6/12
Abstract: A method of fabricating non-uniform gratings includes implanting different densities of ions into corresponding areas of a substrate, patterning, e.g., by lithography, a resist layer on the substrate, etching the substrate with the patterned resist layer, and then removing the resist layer from the substrate, leaving the substrate with at least one grating having non-uniform characteristics associated with the different densities of ions implanted in the areas. The method can further include using the substrate having the grating as a mold to fabricate a corresponding grating having corresponding non-uniform characteristics, e.g., by nanoimprint lithography.
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