Microlens-array-based exit-pupil expander for full-color displays

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 4930-4936

  Urey, Hakan ^a   Powell, Karlton D ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MICROVISION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ETCHING; FOURIER OPTICS; LITHOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

COLOR-DISPLAY SYSTEMS; EXIT-PUPIL EXPANDERS (EPE); ISOTROPIC ETCHING; MICROLENS ARRAYS (MLA);

MICROLENSES;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL; RETINA;

COLOR; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; PUPIL; RETINA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 24344464382     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004930     Document Type: Article

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