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 a...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 a wide field of view,leading to limited performance and increased size and weight.In particular,simultaneously achieving a 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°)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 displays and night vision systems.展开更多
基金supported by the DARPA-ENVision programPart of this work was conducted at the Washington Nanofabrication Facility/Molecular Analysis Facility,a National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure(NNCI)site at the University of Washington with partial support from the National Science Foundation via awards NNCI-1542101 and NNCI-2025489。
文摘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 a wide field of view,leading to limited performance and increased size and weight.In particular,simultaneously achieving a 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°)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 displays and night vision systems.
