Design, tolerance, and fabrication of an optical see-through head-mounted display with free-form surface elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Qingfeng ^a   Cheng, Dewen ^a   Wang, Yongtian ^a   Hua, Hong ^b   Jin, Guofan ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; INJECTION MOLDING; LENSES; MOLDING; MOLDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PRISMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

FABRICATION PROCESS; FREE-FORM SURFACE; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH; OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS; OPTICAL SURFACES; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PROBABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PROBABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84875034587     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.000C88     Document Type: Article

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