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公开(公告)号:US12216357B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-04
申请号:US18464338
申请日:2023-09-11
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Zhimin Shi , Xi Wu , James Ronald Bonar , Yun Wang , Edward Buckley
IPC: G02F1/1335 , F21V8/00
Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus may include a backlight unit (BLU) including an electronic integrated circuit layer, a photonic integrated circuit layer, a color conversion module, and a display interface layer. In some examples, a BLU may include at least one laser or may be configured to receive laser light from at least one external laser source. Laser light may be transmitted towards a portion of the display interface layer using the photonic integrated circuit. Color conversion modules may be used to convert the laser light into one or more desired colors. Example apparatus may be used in head-mounted devices such as augmented reality and/or virtual reality devices. Other devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11727891B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-15
申请号:US17528036
申请日:2021-11-16
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Zhimin Shi , James Ronald Bonar , Fenglin Peng , Ying Geng
IPC: G09G3/36 , G09G3/34 , F21V8/00 , G02F1/1335
CPC classification number: G09G3/3473 , G02B6/005 , G09G3/3406 , G09G3/36 , G02F1/133512 , G09G2300/0426 , G09G2320/0209
Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus comprises a composite backplane that modulates light from a light source, where the composite backplane comprises an electronics layer disposed on a substrate, a photonics integrated circuit (IC) layer disposed on the electronics layer that causes light from the light source to propagate in a first direction, and an active light modulation (ALM) interface layer disposed on the photonics IC layer controls an ALM interface layer in order to control the light propagating in the first direction.
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公开(公告)号:US11493767B1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-08
申请号:US17516831
申请日:2021-11-02
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail , James Ronald Bonar , Gareth Valentine
Abstract: The disclosed projector device may include (1) a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and (2) a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The first and second monochromatic emitter arrays may be configured to emit images of the first and second colors into a waveguide configuration, and the first color may be different than the second color. Associated display systems and methods are also provided.
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公开(公告)号:US11862932B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-02
申请号:US17124319
申请日:2020-12-16
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Gareth Valentine , Maik Andre Scheller , James Ronald Bonar
IPC: H01S3/10 , H01S5/026 , H01S5/00 , H01S5/40 , H01S5/10 , H01S5/062 , G02B27/01 , G02F1/35 , H01S3/109 , H04N9/31 , H01S5/183
CPC classification number: H01S5/0268 , H01S5/0092 , H01S5/06206 , H01S5/1092 , H01S5/4087 , G02B27/0172 , G02B2027/0178 , G02F1/3532 , H01S3/109 , H01S5/18397 , H04N9/3161 , H04N9/3164
Abstract: A light source based on an optical frequency mixer is disclosed. The light source has a first laser for emitting light at a first optical frequency, and a plurality of second lasers for emitting light at different second optical frequencies. The optical frequency mixer provides output light beams at mixed optical frequencies of the first and second lasers. Wavelength of output light beams may be tuned by tuning wavelength of any of the first or second lasers. In this manner, RGB wavelength-tunable light sources may be constructed based on red or near-infrared lasers. The wavelength tunability of the output light beams may be used to angularly scan or refocus the light beams.
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公开(公告)号:US11835722B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-05
申请号:US16810458
申请日:2020-03-05
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02B27/10 , G02B3/08 , G02B5/02 , H04N9/31 , G02B5/18 , G02B5/30 , G02B27/28 , G02F1/1334 , G02F1/137
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B3/08 , G02B5/0289 , G02B5/1819 , G02B5/3025 , G02B27/0176 , G02B27/10 , G02B27/106 , G02B27/283 , G02F1/137 , G02F1/1334 , H04N9/3152 , G02B2027/0178 , G02B2027/0187 , G02F1/13345
Abstract: A display device includes an optical assembly and a display that includes a front surface and a back surface. The display is configured to output image light from the front surface and transmit ambient light from the back surface to the front surface. The optical assembly includes a substrate that has a substantially uniform thickness, a beam splitter, and a reflector. The optical assembly is configured to receive the image light output from the front surface of the display and to transmit a portion of the image light at a first non-zero optical power via an optical path that includes reflections at the reflector and at the beam splitter. The optical assembly is also configured to transmit a portion of the ambient light through the optical assembly at a second optical power without reflection at the reflector. The second optical power is less than the first optical power.
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公开(公告)号:US11424289B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-23
申请号:US17096764
申请日:2020-11-12
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Anurag Tyagi , James Ronald Bonar , Gareth Valentine
IPC: H01L27/15
Abstract: LED apparatuses featuring etched mesas and techniques for manufacturing LED apparatuses are described, including techniques for reducing surface recombination and techniques for charge carrier confinement. Etched facets of an LED mesa can be passivated using epitaxial regrowth of one or more semiconductor regrowth layers. The one or more semiconductor regrowth layers can include a transition layer. The transition layer can be configured with a bandgap energy between that of layers that are on opposite sides of the transition layer. A transition layer can separate an etched facet and another regrowth layer or separate two regrowth layers. In some instances, selective etching can be performed to preferentially etch a quantum well layer relative to a barrier layer. The selective etching removes surface imperfections, which contribute to surface recombination and which tend to be more prevalent in etched facets of the quantum well layer than etched facets of the barrier layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20240085740A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US18464338
申请日:2023-09-11
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Zhimin Shi , Xi Wu , James Ronald Bonar , Yun Wang , Edward Buckley
IPC: G02F1/1335 , F21V8/00
CPC classification number: G02F1/133614 , G02B6/0001
Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus may include a backlight unit (BLU) including an electronic integrated circuit layer, a photonic integrated circuit layer, a color conversion module, and a display interface layer. In some examples, a BLU may include at least one laser or may be configured to receive laser light from at least one external laser source. Laser light may be transmitted towards a portion of the display interface layer using the photonic integrated circuit. Color conversion modules may be used to convert the laser light into one or more desired colors. Example apparatus may be used in head-mounted devices such as augmented reality and/or virtual reality devices. Other devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11869922B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-09
申请号:US17866452
申请日:2022-07-15
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Anurag Tyagi , James Ronald Bonar , Gareth Valentine
IPC: H01L27/15
CPC classification number: H01L27/156
Abstract: LED apparatuses and corresponding manufacturing techniques are described. In some examples, an LED apparatus includes a mesa etched from a layered epitaxial structure. The layered epitaxial structure includes a quantum well layer and a barrier layer adjacent to the quantum well layer. The barrier layer overhangs the quantum well layer as a result of the quantum well layer having been etched to a greater depth compared to the barrier layer. In some examples, the quantum well layer and the barrier layer are etched together to produce an area where the barrier layer overhangs the quantum well layer. Etching of the quantum well layer and the barrier layer can be performed after the layered epitaxial structure has been etched to form the mesa, in order to reduce surface imperfections leftover from the mesa etch. In some examples, one or more regrowth semiconductor layers are formed over etched facets of the mesa.
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公开(公告)号:US20230194925A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US17985063
申请日:2022-11-10
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Zhimin Shi , James Ronald Bonar , Wanli Chi
IPC: G02F1/13357 , G02B27/01
CPC classification number: G02F1/133605 , G02F1/133606 , G02B27/0172 , G02F2201/05 , G02F2201/302 , G02F2201/38
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a high performance backlight device with photonic integrated circuits. The backlight device includes a light source assembly, a multi-mode slab waveguide, and an out-coupling assembly. The light source assembly includes one or more light sources that generate light in accordance with emission instructions, and a de-speckling mechanism that conditions the generated light to mitigate speckle. The multi-mode slab waveguide in-couples the conditioned light and expands the in-coupled conditioned light in two dimensions to form a homogenous area of conditioned light within a region of the multi-mode slab waveguide. The out-coupling assembly out-couples the conditioned light from the region in a direction normal to the two dimensions, wherein a light modulation layer forms an image from the out-coupled conditioned light.
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公开(公告)号:US11675199B1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-13
申请号:US17932984
申请日:2022-09-16
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail , James Ronald Bonar , Gareth Valentine
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B6/12007 , G02B6/29316 , G02B27/0955 , G03B21/142 , G03B21/2033 , G02B2027/014 , G02B2027/0112 , G02B2027/0116 , G02B2027/0147 , G02B2027/0178
Abstract: The disclosed projector device may include (1) a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and (2) a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The first and second monochromatic emitter arrays may be configured to emit images of the first and second colors into a waveguide configuration, and the first color may be different than the second color. Associated display systems and methods are also provided.
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