Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece
Abstract Wide field of view and light weight optics are critical for advanced eyewear, with applications in augmented/virtual reality and night vision. Conventional refractive lenses are often stacked to correct aberrations at a wide field of view, leading to limited performance and increased size a...
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| author | Anna Wirth-Singh Johannes E. Fröch Fan Yang Louis Martin Hanyu Zheng Hualiang Zhang Quentin T. Tanguy Zhihao Zhou Luocheng Huang Demis D. John Biljana Stamenic Juejun Hu Tian Gu Arka Majumdar |
| author_facet | Anna Wirth-Singh Johannes E. Fröch Fan Yang Louis Martin Hanyu Zheng Hualiang Zhang Quentin T. Tanguy Zhihao Zhou Luocheng Huang Demis D. John Biljana Stamenic Juejun Hu Tian Gu Arka Majumdar |
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| description | Abstract Wide field of view and light weight optics are critical for advanced eyewear, with applications in augmented/virtual reality and night vision. Conventional refractive lenses are often stacked to correct aberrations at a wide field of view, leading to limited performance and increased size and weight. In particular, simultaneously achieving a wide field of view and large aperture for light collection is desirable but challenging to realize in a compact form-factor. Here, we demonstrate a wide field of view (greater than 60∘) meta-optic doublet eyepiece with an entrance aperture of 2.1 cm. At the design wavelength of 633 nm, the meta-optic doublet achieves comparable performance to a refractive lens-based eyepiece system. This meta-doublet eyepiece illustrates the potential for meta-optics to play an important role in the development of high-quality monochrome near-eye displays and night vision systems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0e8f53bc39d5471b8ef1f522ec22f5392025-01-05T12:46:54ZengNature Publishing GroupLight: Science & Applications2047-75382025-01-0114111010.1038/s41377-024-01674-0Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepieceAnna Wirth-Singh0Johannes E. Fröch1Fan Yang2Louis Martin3Hanyu Zheng4Hualiang Zhang5Quentin T. Tanguy6Zhihao Zhou7Luocheng Huang8Demis D. John9Biljana Stamenic10Juejun Hu11Tian Gu12Arka Majumdar13Department of Physics, University of WashingtonDepartment of Physics, University of WashingtonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of MassachusettsDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of WashingtonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of WashingtonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of WashingtonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of CaliforniaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of CaliforniaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Physics, University of WashingtonAbstract Wide field of view and light weight optics are critical for advanced eyewear, with applications in augmented/virtual reality and night vision. Conventional refractive lenses are often stacked to correct aberrations at a wide field of view, leading to limited performance and increased size and weight. In particular, simultaneously achieving a wide field of view and large aperture for light collection is desirable but challenging to realize in a compact form-factor. Here, we demonstrate a wide field of view (greater than 60∘) meta-optic doublet eyepiece with an entrance aperture of 2.1 cm. At the design wavelength of 633 nm, the meta-optic doublet achieves comparable performance to a refractive lens-based eyepiece system. This meta-doublet eyepiece illustrates the potential for meta-optics to play an important role in the development of high-quality monochrome near-eye displays and night vision systems.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01674-0 |
| spellingShingle | Anna Wirth-Singh Johannes E. Fröch Fan Yang Louis Martin Hanyu Zheng Hualiang Zhang Quentin T. Tanguy Zhihao Zhou Luocheng Huang Demis D. John Biljana Stamenic Juejun Hu Tian Gu Arka Majumdar Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece Light: Science & Applications |
| title | Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece |
| title_full | Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece |
| title_fullStr | Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece |
| title_short | Wide field of view large aperture meta-doublet eyepiece |
| title_sort | wide field of view large aperture meta doublet eyepiece |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01674-0 |
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