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Proceedings Article | 16 March 2023 Presentation + Paper

Efficient all-dielectric metasurface in-coupler for waveguide-based near-eye display

Pei Xiong, Jeremy Goodsell, Daniel Nikolov, Jannick Rolland, A. Nick Vamivakas

Proceedings Volume 12449, 124490Y (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2646494

KEYWORDS: Waveguides, Near eye displays, Diffraction, Augmented reality, Solids, Diffraction limit, Design and modelling, Simulations, Reflection, Optical design

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The creation of new see-through near-eye displays (NEDs) architectures is a topic of intense research focus. A fundamental problem that each design must address is the field of view (FOV) and eyebox of NEDs are limited by etendue conservation for a fixed display optics size. Waveguide architecture provides the solution to increasing the eyebox in NEDs without increasing the optics size through exit pupil expansion. Brightness and uniformity are two key features of waveguide architecture. In this work, we focus on the brightness of the waveguide since the image uniformity can be compensated by the display engine. We show that the geometry of the waveguide sets a fundamental limit on the in-coupling efficiency for a given FOV. This limit can be used as a tool for waveguide designers to benchmark the in-coupling efficiency of their incoupler gratings. With this derived limit, we designed and optimized a metasurface-based grating (metagrating) and a surface relief grating (SRG) as in-couplers. The diffractive efficiencies of the two types of in-couplers were then compared to the theoretical efficiency limit. The metagrating's 28% efficiency surpasses the SRG's 20% efficiency and nearly matches the geometry-based limit of 29% due to the superior angular response control of metasurfaces compared to SRGs. This work provides a new understanding of the brightness efficiency limit of waveguide-based combiners and paves a novel path toward implementing metasurfaces in efficient waveguide AR displays.

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