Advanced liquid crystal devices for augmented reality and virtual reality displays: principles and applications

K Yin, EL Hsiang, J Zou, Y Li, Z Yang, Q Yang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and photonic devices play a pivotal role to augmented reality
(AR) and virtual reality (VR). The recently emerging high-dynamic-range (HDR) mini-LED …

[HTML][HTML] Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives

J Xiong, EL Hsiang, Z He, T Zhan, ST Wu - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
With rapid advances in high-speed communication and computation, augmented reality
(AR) and virtual reality (VR) are emerging as next-generation display platforms for deeper …

[HTML][HTML] Design and manufacture AR head-mounted displays: A review and outlook

D Cheng, Q Wang, Y Liu, H Chen, D Ni… - Light: Advanced …, 2021 - light-am.com
Augmented reality head-mounted displays (AR-HMDs) enable users to see real images of
the outside world and visualize virtual information generated by a computer at any time and …

Matrix Fourier optics enables a compact full-Stokes polarization camera

NA Rubin, G D'Aversa, P Chevalier, Z Shi, WT Chen… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Polarization describes the path along which light's electric field vector
oscillates. An essential quality of electromagnetic radiation, polarization is often omitted in its …

Planar liquid crystal polarization optics for augmented reality and virtual reality: from fundamentals to applications

J Xiong, ST Wu - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Planar and ultrathin liquid crystal (LC) polarization optical elements have found promising
applications in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and photonic devices. In this …

Metasurface polarization optics: independent phase control of arbitrary orthogonal states of polarization

JP Balthasar Mueller, NA Rubin, RC Devlin, B Groever… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We present a method allowing for the imposition of two independent and arbitrary phase
profiles on any pair of orthogonal states of polarization—linear, circular, or elliptical—relying …

A review of dielectric optical metasurfaces for wavefront control

SM Kamali, E Arbabi, A Arbabi, A Faraon - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
During the past few years, metasurfaces have been used to demonstrate optical elements
and systems with capabilities that surpass those of conventional diffractive optics. Here, we …

Extreme‐angle silicon infrared optics enabled by streamlined surfaces

F Zhang, M Pu, X Li, X Ma, Y Guo, P Gao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared optical systems are indispensable in almost all domains of society, but their
performances are often restricted by bulky size, small field of view, large thermal sensitivity …

Polarization in diffractive optics and metasurfaces

NA Rubin, Z Shi, F Capasso - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Polarization, the path traced by light's electric field vector, appears in all areas of optics. In
recent decades, various technologies have enabled the precise control of light's polarization …

Methods and systems for diagnosing and treating health ailments

NE Samec, JG Macnamara, CM Harrises… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Configurations are disclosed for a health system to be used in various healthcare
applications, eg, for patient diagnostics, monitoring, and/or therapy. The health system may …