Diffractive optics for virtual reality displays

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 467-475

  Levola, Tapani ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Exit pupil expander; Planar waveguide; Virtual reality display

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; VIRTUAL REALITY; WAVEGUIDES;

EXIT PUPIL EXPANDER; IMAGING OPTICS; LOW WEIGHTS; LOW-POWER; SMALL SIZES; VIRTUAL REALITY DISPLAYS; VIRTUAL-REALITY DISPLAY;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 42149157323     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2206112     Document Type: Article

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