Polymer-based fabrication of coupled microlens arrays for application to heads-up display

W. Yan; X. Jin; H. S. Park; H. Abdollahi; B. Stoeber; J. F. Holzman

doi:10.1117/12.2290512

19 February 2018 Polymer-based fabrication of coupled microlens arrays for application to heads-up display

W. Yan, X. Jin, H. S. Park, H. Abdollahi, B. Stoeber, J. F. Holzman

Proceedings Volume 10556, Advances in Display Technologies VIII; 105560A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290512
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Optical technology is crucial to the heads-up displays used in wearable virtual reality and augmented reality goggles. However, the implemented technology can be challenging to implement. It must form a magnified image, focused at infinity, for imaging with the relaxed human eye, and it must be compact. The proposed work does this using coupled microlens arrays. The coupled plano-concave and plano-convex microlens arrays together act as a superlens that meets the requirements of heads-up displays. The required plano-concave and plano-convex microlens arrays are implemented using a technique of dispensing and in situ ultraviolet-curing of polymer microdroplets. It is shown that the planoconcave and plano-convex microlens arrays can be formed to enable imaging in a compact package with an excellent resolution, corresponding to a spatial modulation transfer function beyond 20 cycles/mm.

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W. Yan, X. Jin, H. S. Park, H. Abdollahi, B. Stoeber, and J. F. Holzman "Polymer-based fabrication of coupled microlens arrays for application to heads-up display", Proc. SPIE 10556, Advances in Display Technologies VIII, 105560A (19 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290512

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