Design of an optical see-through head-mounted display with a low f-number and large field of view using a freeform prism

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2655-2668

  Cheng, Dewen ^a,b   Wang, Yongtian ^a   Hua, Hong ^b   Talha, M M ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PRISMS;

FREE-FORM SURFACE; FREEFORM LENS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; MICRODISPLAYS; NON-INTRUSIVE; OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS; PLASTIC MATERIALS; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER TERMINALS; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAD; LENSES; LIGHTING; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 67649252065     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002655     Document Type: Article

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