Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Waveguide-based projector
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Application No.: US16950109Application Date: 2020-11-17
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Publication No.: US11604352B2Publication Date: 2023-03-14
- Inventor: Alexander Koshelev , Giuseppe Calafiore
- Applicant: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Pequignot + Myers
- Agent Matthew A. Pequignot
- Main IPC: G02B27/01
- IPC: G02B27/01 ; F21V8/00 ; G02B6/293 ; G02B6/35 ; G02B27/09 ; G02B27/30

Abstract:
A projector includes an illumination waveguide layer, a collimation waveguide layer, and a spatial modulator. The illumination waveguide layer expands a light beam which is coupled to the spatial modulator. The spatial modulator modulates the expanded light beam to provide a line of light points of controllable brightness. The collimation waveguide collimates light of the light points to obtain a fan of collimated light beams. Each collimated light beam of the fan has an angle corresponding to a coordinate of the corresponding light point of the line. A tiltable reflector may be placed at the exit pupil to scan the fan of light beams in a plane non-parallel to the plane of the fan, thus providing a 2D image in angular domain. An array of Mach-Zehnder interferometers may be used in place of the illumination waveguide layer and the spatial modulator to provide the line of light points.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220035159A1 WAVEGUIDE-BASED PROJECTOR Public/Granted day:2022-02-03
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