Design of an ultra-thin near-eye display with geometrical waveguide and freeform optics

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 20705-20719

  Cheng, Dewen ^a   Wang, Yongtian ^a   Xu, Chen ^a   Song, Weitao ^a   Jin, Guofan ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAY LIGHT;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; DISPLAY QUALITY; FREE-FORM SURFACE; FREEFORM OPTICS; GLOBAL SEARCHING; PROJECTION OPTICS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84906771427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.020705     Document Type: Article

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