-
71.
公开(公告)号:US20190064735A1
公开(公告)日:2019-02-28
申请号:US16118328
申请日:2018-08-30
Applicant: DigiLens, Inc.
Inventor: Jonathan David Waldern , Sihui He , Alastair John Grant , Milan Momcilo Popovich
Abstract: Typical waveguides rely on total internal reflection between the outer surfaces of substrates, which can make them highly susceptible to beam misalignment caused by nonplanarity of the substrates. In the manufacturing of the glass sheets commonly used for substrates, ripples can occur during the stretching and drawing of glass as it emerges from a furnace. Although glass manufacturers try to minimize ripples using predictions from mathematical models, it is difficult to totally eradicate the problem from the glass manufacturing process. Typically, these beam misalignments manifest themselves as image distortions and non-uniformities in the output illumination from the waveguide. Many embodiments of the invention are directed toward optically efficient, low cost solutions to the problem of controlling output image quality in waveguides manufactured using commercially available substrate glass and to the problem of compensating the image distortions and non-uniformity of curved waveguides.
-
公开(公告)号:US10185154B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-22
申请号:US15043806
申请日:2016-02-15
Applicant: DigiLens, Inc.
Inventor: Milan Momcilo Popovich , Jonathan David Waldern
IPC: G02B5/32 , G03H1/04 , G02B27/48 , G02B5/02 , G02F1/1334 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/29 , F21V8/00 , G02B27/28 , G03B21/00 , G03B21/20 , G02F1/1335
Abstract: A device for reducing laser speckle using a micro scanner and a holographic diffuser. The micro scanner includes a first transparent optical substrate with an input surface and an output surface and a second transparent optical substrate with an input surface and an output surface and a variable refractive index medium sandwiched between the output surface of the first substrate and the input surface of the second substrate. Transparent electrodes are applied to the output surface of the first substrate and the input surface of the second substrate. The electrodes are coupled to a voltage generator. The input surface of the first substrate is optically coupled to a laser source. The input surface of the second substrate is configured as an array of prismatic elements. At least one of the input surface of the first substrate or the output surfaces of the second substrate is planar.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180143449A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15857783
申请日:2017-12-29
Applicant: DIGILENS, INC.
Inventor: Milan Momcilo Popovich , Jonathan David Waldern , John James Storey
IPC: G02B27/48 , G03H1/32 , G02F1/1335 , G03B21/20 , G02F1/01 , G02B27/42 , F21V8/00 , G03H1/02 , G02B5/18 , G02F1/137 , G02F1/1334
CPC classification number: G02B27/48 , G02B5/1828 , G02B6/0023 , G02B6/0035 , G02B6/005 , G02B27/425 , G02F1/0136 , G02F1/13342 , G02F1/133553 , G02F1/133606 , G02F1/13731 , G02F2203/62 , G03B21/2033 , G03H1/0248 , G03H1/32
Abstract: An apparatus for recording a holographic device comprises: a master hologram comprising a multiplicity of holographic elements each characterized by one of a predefined set of grating prescriptions; a transparent substrate supporting a layer of holographic material; and a light source. Each holographic element diffracts source light onto a predefined region of the layer. Each prescription modulates at least one of phase, amplitude, and angle of the light. There is further provided a method of recording a holographic device, comprising the steps of: providing said apparatus; exposing the master to illumination from the source; and diffracting light from each holographic element onto a predefined region of the layer.
-
公开(公告)号:US20180120669A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-03
申请号:US15799590
申请日:2017-10-31
Applicant: DigiLens, Inc.
Inventor: Milan Momcilo Popovich , Jonathan David Waldern
IPC: G02F1/29 , G02F1/1334
CPC classification number: G02F1/292 , G02B6/0076 , G02B6/12002 , G02B26/0808 , G02B27/4277 , G02B2006/12107 , G02B2006/12138 , G02F1/13342 , G02F2201/307 , G02F2203/62 , G06F3/0421 , G06K9/0004 , H01L27/14618 , H01L27/14625 , H01L27/14678 , H01L2924/0002 , H01L2924/00
Abstract: A contact image sensor comprises: a light source providing a collimated beam; a detector and a switchable grating array comprising first and second transparent substrates sandwiching an array of switchable grating elements with transparent electrodes applied to said substrates, said substrates together providing a total internal reflection light guide. A first transmission grating layer overlays said first substrate. A second transmission grating layer overlays said second substrate. A quarter wavelength retarder layer overlays said second transmission grating layer. A platen overlays said quarter wavelength retarder layer; a polarization-rotating reflecting layer overlaying said first transmission grating layer. An input coupler for directing light from said light source into said light guide and an output coupler for extracting light out of said light guide towards said detector are also provided.
-
公开(公告)号:US09632226B2
公开(公告)日:2017-04-25
申请号:US14620969
申请日:2015-02-12
Applicant: DigiLens Inc. , Rockwell Collins Inc.
Inventor: Jonathan David Waldern , Alastair John Grant , Milan Momcilo Popovich , James H. Stanley , Robert D. Brown
CPC classification number: G02B6/34 , G02B5/1819 , G02B5/1823 , G02B5/32 , G02B6/0016 , G02B6/124 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/4205 , G02B27/4261 , G02B2027/0125 , G02F1/13342
Abstract: An optical waveguide comprises at least two TIR surface and contains a grating. Input TIR light with a first angular range along a first propagation direction undergoes at least two diffractions at the grating. Each diffraction directs light into a unique TIR angular range along a second propagation direction.
-
公开(公告)号:US12298513B2
公开(公告)日:2025-05-13
申请号:US18059246
申请日:2022-11-28
Applicant: DigiLens Inc.
Inventor: Jonathan David Waldern , Alastair John Grant , Milan Momcilo Popovich
Abstract: Various embodiments of waveguide devices are described. A debanding optic may be incorporated into waveguide devices, which may help supply uniform output illumination. Accordingly, various waveguide devices are able to output a substantially flat illumination profile eliminating or mitigating banding effects.
-
公开(公告)号:US20250147316A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-08
申请号:US18942123
申请日:2024-11-08
Applicant: DigiLens Inc.
Inventor: Milan Momcilo Popovich , Alastair John Grant , Nima Shams , Jonathan David Waldern , Sihui He , Edward Lao , Roger Allen Conley Smith
Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing waveguide display devices utilizing overlapping integrated dual action (IDA) waveguides. One embodiment includes a waveguide display device including: a first input image source providing first image light; a second input image source provide second image light; a first IDA waveguide; and a second IDA waveguide. The first IDA waveguide and the second IDA waveguide may include an overlapping region where a first two-dimensionally expanded first image light, a second two-dimensionally expanded first image light, a first two-dimensionally expanded second image light, and a second two-dimensionally expanded second image light is ejected towards an eyebox. Advantageously, resolution may be enhanced and field of view may be expanded through the use of overlapping IDA waveguides.
-
公开(公告)号:US12276895B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-15
申请号:US18377683
申请日:2023-10-06
Applicant: Rockwell Collins, Inc. , Digilens Inc.
Inventor: Robert D. Brown , Alastair John Grant , Wyatt L. Hendrick , Milan Momcilo Popovich , James H. Stanley , Jonathan David Waldern
Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus for displaying an image comprising: a first optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate light in a first direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the first optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract the light from the first substrate along the first direction; and a second optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate the light in a second direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the second optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract light from the second substrate along the second direction; wherein the at least one grating lamina of at least one of the first and second optical substrates comprises an SBG in a passive mode.
-
公开(公告)号:US11899238B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US17931495
申请日:2022-09-12
Applicant: DigiLens Inc.
Inventor: Jonathan David Waldern , Alastair John Grant , Milan Momcilo Popovich , Shibu Abraham , Baeddan George Hill , Tsung-Jui Ho
CPC classification number: G02B6/02076 , G02B5/1857 , G02B6/12023 , G02B6/29302 , G02F1/1326 , G02B6/02066 , G02B6/02123
Abstract: Improvements to gratings for use in waveguides and methods of producing them are described herein. Deep surface relief gratings (SRGs) may offer many advantages over conventional SRGs and Bragg gratings, an important one being a higher S-diffraction efficiency. In one embodiment, deep SRGs can be implemented as polymer surface relief gratings or evacuated Bragg gratings (EBGs). EBGs can be formed by first recording a holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) grating. Removing the liquid crystal from the cured grating provides a polymer surface relief grating. Polymer surface relief gratings have many applications including for use in waveguide-based displays.
-
80.
公开(公告)号:US20240027689A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-25
申请号:US18362870
申请日:2023-07-31
Applicant: DigiLens Inc.
Inventor: Jonathan David Waldern , Alastair John Grant , Hyesog Lee , Gerald Buxton , Milan Momcilo Popovich
CPC classification number: G02B6/3522 , G02B6/0016 , G02B6/02276 , G02B27/0081 , G02B6/02076
Abstract: Multiplexed reflection and transmission gratings, and methods of their manufacture, are provided that improve uniformity with laser light, that is, reduced banding and other illumination artifacts occurring in waveguides. The mechanism for this can be the multiple reflections between the waveguide reflecting surfaces and the reflection hologram, which promote illumination averaging as beam propagation processes within a waveguide. In some gratings, a beam splitter layer overlapping the multiplexed gratings can be provided for the purposes of reducing banding in a laser-illuminated waveguide. The beam splitter can be provided by one or more dielectric layers. The beamsplitter can have sensitivity to one polarization. The beamsplitter can be sensitive to S-polarization. The beam splitter can be an anti-reflection coating optimized for normal incidence that becomes reflective at high TIR angles when immersed in glass or plastic.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-