Diffractive exit-pupil expander for display applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 32, 2001, Pages 5840-5851

  Urey, Hakan ^a  

^a MICROVISION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT MODULATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

RETINAL SCANNING DISPLAYS (RSD);

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0000229454     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005840     Document Type: Article

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