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 …

A review of phased array steering for narrow-band electrooptical systems

PF McManamon, PJ Bos, MJ Escuti… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonmechanical steering of optical beams will enable revolutionary systems with random
access pointing, similar to microwave radar phased arrays. An early approach was …

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 …

Architectures and methods for outputting different wavelength light out of waveguides

RD TeKolste, MA Klug, BT Schowengerdt - US Patent 10,261,318, 2019 - Google Patents
Architectures are provided for selectively outputting light for forming images, the light having
different wavelengths and being outputted with low levels of crosstalk. In some …

Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods

MA Klug, BT Schowengerdt, MN Miller… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Methods of manufacturing a liquid crystal device including depositing a layer of liquid crystal
material on a substrate and imprinting a pattern on the layer of liquid crystal material using …

Liquid-crystal photonic applications

J Beeckman, K Neyts, PJM Vanbrabant - Optical Engineering, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Liquid crystals are nowadays widely used in all types of display applications. However their
unique electro-optic properties also make them a suitable material for nondisplay …

Depth based foveated rendering for display systems

ILC Yeoh, LE Edwin, NE Samec, NU Robaina… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
US11644669B2 - Depth based foveated rendering for display systems - Google Patents
US11644669B2 - Depth based foveated rendering for display systems - Google Patents …

Display system with optical elements for in-coupling multiplexed light streams

MA Klug, BT Schowengerdt, MN Miller… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Architectures are provided for selectively incoupling one or more streams of light from a
multiplexed light stream into a waveguide. The multiplexed light stream can have light with …

Variable-focus virtual image devices based on polarization conversion

C Oh - US Patent 11,036,109, 2021 - Google Patents
Example display devices include a waveguide configured to propagate visible light under
total internal reflection in a direction parallel to a major surface of the waveguide. The …

Stacked waveguides having different diffraction gratings for combined field of view

C Oh, V Parthiban - US Patent 11,269,144, 2022 - Google Patents
In one aspect, an optical device comprises a plurality of waveguides formed over one
another and having formed thereon respective diffraction gratings, wherein the respec tive …