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

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Polymer-based fabrication of coupled microlens arrays for application to heads-up displays Yan, W.; Jin, Xian; Park, Hongbae S.; Abdollahai, H.; Stoeber, Boris; Holzman, Jonathan

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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Title	Polymer-based fabrication of coupled microlens arrays for application to heads-up displays
Creator	Yan, W.; Jin, Xian; Park, Hongbae S.; Abdollahai, H.; Stoeber, Boris; Holzman, Jonathan
Contributor	Integrated Optics Laboratory (University of British Columbia)
Publisher	SPIE
Date Issued	2018-02-19
Description	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
Subject	heads-up display; microlens arrays; Gabor superlens; modulation transfer function
Genre	Conference Paper
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2021-04-16
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0396738
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77815
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of; Mechanical Engineering, Department of; Engineering, School of (Okanagan)
Citation	W. Yan, X. Jin, H. S. Park, H. Abdollahi, B. Stoeber, J. F. Holzman, "Polymer-based fabrication of coupled microlens arrays for application to heads-up displays," Proc. SPIE 10556, Advances in Display Technologies VIII, 105560A (19 February 2018)
Publisher DOI	10.1117/12.2290512
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty; Researcher
Copyright Holder	SPIE
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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