Wide Field of View Large Aperture Meta-Doublet Eyepiece

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 wide field of view, leading to limited performance and increased size and weight....

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Wirth-Singh, Anna, Fröch, Johannes E, Yang, Fan, Martin, Louis, Zhang, Hualiang, Tanguy, Quentin T, Zhou, Zhihao, Huang, Luocheng, John, Demis D, Stamenic, Biljana, Hu, Juejun, Gu, Tian, Majumdar, Arka
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 20.06.2024
Subjects
Apertures
Eyewear
Field of view
Night vision
Refractive lenses
Virtual reality
Vision systems
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Summary: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 wide field of view, leading to limited performance and increased size and weight. In particular, simultaneously achieving 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\(^\circ\)) 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 display and night vision systems.
ISSN:2331-8422