US20160195664A1 - Multibeam diffraction grating-based backlighting - Google Patents

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US20160195664A1 US14/908,523 US201314908523A US2016195664A1 US 20160195664 A1 US20160195664 A1 US 20160195664A1 US 201314908523 A US201314908523 A US 201314908523A US 2016195664 A1 US2016195664 A1 US 2016195664A1
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  • Electronic displays are a nearly ubiquitous medium for communicating information to users of a wide variety of devices and products.
  • electronic displays are the cathode ray tube (CRT), plasma display panels (PDP), liquid crystal displays (LCD), electroluminescent displays (EL), organic light emitting diode (OLED) and active matrix OLEDs (AMOLED) displays, electrophoretic displays (EP) and various displays that employ electromechanical or electrofluidic light modulation (e.g., digital micromirror devices, electrowetting displays, etc.).
  • CTR cathode ray tube
  • PDP plasma display panels
  • LCD liquid crystal displays
  • EL electroluminescent displays
  • OLED organic light emitting diode
  • AMOLED active matrix OLEDs
  • electrophoretic displays EP
  • electrophoretic displays e.g., digital micromirror devices, electrowetting displays, etc.
  • electronic displays may be categorized as either active displays (i.e., displays that emit light) or passive displays (i.e., displays that modulate light provided
  • Displays that are typically classified as passive when considering emitted light are LCDs and EP displays.
  • Passive displays while often exhibiting attractive performance characteristics including, but not limited to, inherently low power consumption, may find somewhat limited use in many practical applications given the lack of an ability to emit light.
  • the coupled light source may allow these otherwise passive displays to emit light and function substantially as an active display.
  • Examples of such coupled light sources are backlights.
  • Backlights are light sources (often panel light sources) that are placed behind an otherwise passive display to illuminate the passive display.
  • a backlight may be coupled to an LCD or an EP display.
  • the backlight emits light that passes through the LCD or the EP display.
  • the light emitted is modulated by the LCD or the EP display and the modulated light is then emitted, in turn, from the LCD or the EP display.
  • Often backlights are configured to emit white light.
  • Color filters are then used to transform the white light into various colors used in the display.
  • the color filters may be placed at an output of the LCD or the EP display (less common) or between the backlight and the LCD or the EP display, for example.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates graphical view of angular components ⁇ , ⁇ of a light beam having a particular principal angular direction, according to an example of the principles describe herein.
  • FIG. 2A illustrates a perspective view of a multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight, according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 2B illustrates a cross sectional view of the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight illustrated in FIG. 2A , according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 2C illustrates a cross sectional view of a multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight, according to another example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a plan view of a multibeam diffraction grating, according to another example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of an electronic display, according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a flow chart of a method of electronic display operation, according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • Examples in accordance with the principles described herein provide electronic display backlighting using multibeam diffractive coupling.
  • backlighting of an electronic display described herein employs a multibeam diffraction grating.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating is used to couple light out of a light guide and to direct the coupled out light in a viewing direction of the electronic display.
  • the coupled out light directed in the viewing direction by the multibeam diffraction grating includes a plurality of light beams that have different principal angular directions from one another, according to various examples of the principles described herein.
  • the light beams having the different principal angular directions also referred to as ‘the differently directed light beams’
  • the differently directed light beams produced by the multibeam diffraction grating may be modulated and serve as pixels of a ‘glasses free’ 3-D electronic display, for example.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating produces the plurality of light beams having a corresponding plurality of different, spatially separated angles (i.e., different principal angular directions).
  • each light beam produced by the multibeam diffraction grating has a principal angular direction given by angular components ⁇ , ⁇ .
  • the angular component ⁇ is referred to herein as the ‘elevation component’ or ‘elevation angle’ of the light beam.
  • the angular component ⁇ is referred to as the ‘aziumuth component’ or ‘azimuth angle’ of the light beam, herein.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the angular components ⁇ , ⁇ of a light beam 10 having a particular principal angular direction, according to an example of the principles describe herein.
  • each light beam is emitted or emanates from a particular point, by definition herein. That is, by definition, each light beam has a central ray associated with a particular point of origin within the multibeam diffraction grating.
  • FIG. 1 also illustrates the light beam point of origin P.
  • the elevation component ⁇ of the light beam is related to, and in some examples determined by, a diffraction angle ⁇ m of the multibeam diffraction grating.
  • the elevation component ⁇ may be determined by the diffraction angle ⁇ m local to or at the point of origin P of the light beam, according to some examples.
  • the azimuth component ⁇ of the light beam may be determined by an orientation or rotation of features of the multibeam diffraction grating, according to various examples.
  • An example propagation direction of incident light is illustrated in FIG. 1 using a bold arrow.
  • characteristics of the multibeam diffraction grating and the features thereof may be used to control one or both of the angular directionality of the light beams and a wavelength or color selectivity of the multibeam diffraction grating with respect to one or more of the light beams.
  • the characteristics that may be used to control the angular directionality and wavelength selectivity include, but are not limited to, a grating length, a grating pitch (feature spacing), a shape of the features, a size of the features (e.g., groove or ridge width), and an orientation of the grating.
  • the various characteristics used for control may be characteristics that are local to a vicinity of the point of origin of a light beam.
  • a ‘diffraction grating’ is generally defined as a plurality of features (i.e., diffractive features) arranged to provide diffraction of light incident on the diffraction grating.
  • the plurality of features may be arranged in a periodic or quasi-periodic manner.
  • the diffraction grating may include a plurality of features (e.g., a plurality of grooves in a material surface) arranged in a one-dimensional (1-D) array.
  • the diffraction grating may be a two-dimensional (2-D) array of features.
  • the diffraction grating may be a 2-D array of bumps on a material surface.
  • the diffraction grating is a structure that provides diffraction of light incident on the diffraction grating. If the light is incident on the diffraction grating from a light guide, the provided diffraction may result in, and thus be referred to as, ‘diffractive coupling’ in that the diffraction grating may couple light out of the light guide by diffraction.
  • the diffraction grating also redirects or changes an angle of the light by diffraction (i.e., a diffractive angle).
  • the diffraction grating may be understood to be a structure including diffractive features that diffractively redirects light incident on the diffraction grating and, if the light is incident from a light guide, the diffraction grating may also diffractively couple out the light from light guide.
  • diffractive coupling is defined as coupling of an electromagnetic wave (e.g., light) across a boundary between two materials as a result of diffraction (e.g., by a diffraction grating).
  • a diffraction grating may be used to couple out light propagating in a light guide by diffractive coupling across a boundary of the light guide.
  • the diffractive coupling substantially overcomes total internal reflection that guides the light within the light guide to couple out the light, for example.
  • ‘diffractive redirection’ is the redirection or change in propagation direction of light as a result of diffraction, by definition. Diffractive redirection may occur at the boundary between two materials if the diffraction occurs at that boundary (e.g., the diffraction grating is located at the boundary).
  • the features of a diffraction grating are referred to as ‘diffractive features’ and may be one or more of at, in and on a surface (e.g., a boundary between two materials).
  • the surface may be a surface of a light guide, for example.
  • the diffractive features may include any of a variety of structures that diffract light including, but not limited to, grooves, ridges, holes and bumps at, in or on the surface.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating may include a plurality of parallel grooves in the material surface.
  • the diffraction grating may include a plurality of parallel ridges rising out of the material surface.
  • the diffractive features may have any of a variety of cross sectional shapes or profiles that provide diffraction including, but not limited to, one or more of a rectangular profile, a triangular profile and a saw tooth profile.
  • a ‘multibeam diffraction grating’ is a diffraction grating that produces a plurality of light beams.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating may be or include a ‘chirped’ diffraction grating.
  • the light beams of the plurality produced by the multibeam diffraction grating may have different principle angular directions denoted by the angular components ⁇ , ⁇ , as described above.
  • each of the light beams may have a predetermined principal angular direction as a result of diffractive coupling and diffractive redirection of incident light by the multibeam diffraction grating.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating may produce eight (8) light beams in eight different principal directions.
  • the elevation angle ⁇ of the light beam may be determined by a diffraction angle ⁇ m of the multibeam diffraction grating, while the azimuth angle ⁇ may be associated with an orientation or rotation of features of the multibeam diffraction grating at a point of origin of the light beam relative to a propagation direction of light incident on the multibeam diffraction grating, as described above.
  • a diffraction angle ⁇ m provided by a locally periodic, transmissive diffraction grating may be given by equation (1) as:
  • ⁇ m sin - 1 ⁇ ( m ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ d - n ⁇ sin ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ i ) ( 1 )
  • ⁇ is a wavelength of the light
  • m is a diffraction order
  • d is a distance between features of the diffraction grating
  • ⁇ i is an angle of incidence of the light on the diffraction grating
  • n is a refractive index of a material (e.g., a liquid crystal) on a side of the diffraction grating from which light is incident on the diffraction grating (i.e., ‘light-incident’ side).
  • Equation (1) assumes that a refractive index on a side of the diffraction grating opposite the light-incident side has a refractive index of one.
  • equation (1) may be modified accordingly.
  • the plurality of light beams produced by the multibeam diffraction grating may all have the same diffractive order m, according to various examples.
  • a ‘light guide’ is defined as a structure that guides light within the structure using total internal reflection.
  • the light guide may include a core that is substantially transparent at an operational wavelength of the light guide.
  • the term ‘light guide’ generally refers to a dielectric optical waveguide that provides total internal reflection to guide light at an interface between a dielectric material of the light guide and a material or medium that surrounds that light guide.
  • a condition for total internal reflection is that a refractive index of the light guide is greater than a refractive index of a surrounding medium adjacent to a surface of the light guide material.
  • the light guide may include a coating in addition to or instead of the aforementioned refractive index difference to further facilitate the total internal reflection.
  • the coating may be a reflective coating, for example.
  • the light guide may be any of several light guides including, but not limited to, one or both of a plate or slab guide and a strip guide.
  • a plate light guide when applied to a light guide as in a ‘plate light guide’ is defined as a piecewise or differentially planar layer or sheet.
  • a plate light guide is defined as a light guide configured to guide light in two substantially orthogonal directions bounded by a top surface and a bottom surface of the light guide.
  • the top and bottom surfaces are both separated from one another and substantially parallel to one another in a differential sense. That is, within any differentially small region of the plate light guide, the top and bottom surfaces are substantially parallel or co-planar.
  • a plate light guide may be substantially flat (e.g., confined to a plane) and so the plate light guide is a planar light guide.
  • the plate light guide may be curved in one or two orthogonal dimensions.
  • the plate light guide may be curved in a single dimension to form a cylindrical shaped plate light guide.
  • any curvature has a radius of curvature sufficiently large to insure that total internal reflection is maintained within the plate light guide to guide light.
  • the article ‘a’ is intended to have its ordinary meaning in the patent arts, namely ‘one or more’.
  • ‘a grating’ means one or more gratings and as such, ‘the grating’ means ‘the grating(s)’ herein.
  • any reference herein to ‘top’, ‘bottom’, ‘upper’, ‘lower’, ‘up’, ‘down’, ‘front’, back′, ‘left’ or ‘right’ is not intended to be a limitation herein.
  • the term ‘about’ when applied to a value generally means within the tolerance range of the equipment used to produce the value, or in some examples, means plus or minus 10%, or plus or minus 5%, or plus or minus 1%, unless otherwise expressly specified.
  • examples herein are intended to be illustrative only and are presented for discussion purposes and not by way of limitation.
  • FIG. 2A illustrates a perspective view of a multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 , according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 2B illustrates a cross sectional view of the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 illustrated in FIG. 2A , according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • FIG. 2C illustrates a cross sectional view of a multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 , according to another example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 is configured to provide a plurality of light beams 102 directed away from the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 .
  • the plurality of light beams 102 forms a plurality of pixels of an electronic display.
  • the electronic display is a so-called ‘glasses free’ three-dimensional (3-D) display (e.g., a multiview display).
  • a light beam 102 of the plurality of light beams provided by the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 is configured to have a different principal angular direction from other light beams 102 of the plurality (e.g., see FIGS. 2B and 2C ). Further, the light beam 102 may have both a predetermined direction (principal angular direction) and a relatively narrow angular spread. In some examples, the light beams 102 may be individually modulated (e.g., by a light valve as described below). The individual modulation of the light beams 102 directed in different directions away from the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 may be particularly useful for 3-D electronic display applications that employ relatively thick light valves, for example.
  • the directional grating-based backlight 100 includes a light guide 110 .
  • the light guide 110 is configured to guide light 104 (e.g., from a light source 130 ).
  • the light guide 110 guides the guided light 104 using total internal reflection.
  • the light guide 110 may include a dielectric material configured as an optical waveguide.
  • the dielectric material may have a first refractive index that is greater than a second refractive index of a medium surrounding the dielectric optical waveguide.
  • the difference in refractive indices is configured to facilitate total internal reflection of the guided light 104 according to one or more guided modes of the light guide 110 , for example.
  • the light guide 110 may be a slab or plate optical waveguide that is an extended, substantially planar sheet of optically transparent material (e.g., as illustrated in cross section in FIGS. 2B and 2C and from the top in FIG. 2A ).
  • the substantially planar sheet of dielectric material is configured to guide the light 104 through total internal reflection.
  • the light guide 110 may include a cladding layer on at least a portion of a surface of the light guide 110 (not illustrated). The cladding layer may be used to further facilitate total internal reflection, for example.
  • the light 104 may be coupled into an end of the light guide 110 to propagate and be guided along a length of the light guide 110 .
  • One or more of a lens, a mirror and a prism may facilitate the coupling of the light into the end or an edge of the light guide 110 .
  • the optically transparent material of the light guide 110 may include or be made up of any of a variety of dielectric materials including, but not limited to, various types of glass (e.g., silica glass, alkali-aluminosilicate glass, borosilicate glass, etc.) and substantially optically transparent plastics or polymers (e.g., poly(methyl methacrylate) or ‘acrylic glass’, polycarbonate, etc.).
  • the guided light 104 may propagate along the light guide 110 in a generally horizontal direction. Propagation of the guided light 104 is illustrated from left to right in FIG. 2B as several bold horizontal arrows representing various propagating optical beams within the light guide 110 .
  • FIG. 2 C illustrates propagation of the guided light 104 from right to left, also as several horizontal arrows.
  • the propagating optical beams may represent plane waves of propagating light associated with one or more of the optical modes of the light guide 110 , for example.
  • the propagating optical beams of the guided light 104 may propagate by ‘bouncing’ or reflecting off of walls of the light guide 110 at an interface between the material (e.g., dielectric) of the light guide 110 and the surrounding medium due to total internal reflection, for example.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 further includes a multibeam diffraction grating 120 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 is located at a surface of the light guide 110 and is configured to couple out a portion or portions of the guided light 104 from the light guide 110 by or using diffractive coupling.
  • the coupled out portion of the guided light 104 is diffractively redirected away from the light guide surface as the plurality of light beams 102 .
  • each of the light beams 102 of the plurality have a different principal angular direction, according to various examples.
  • FIG. 2B illustrates the plurality of light beams 102 as diverging while FIG. 2C illustrates the light beams 102 of the plurality as converging.
  • Whether the light beams 102 are diverging ( FIG. 2B ) or converging ( FIG. 2C ) may be determined by a direction of the guided light 104 , for example.
  • the diverging light beams 102 may appear to be diverging from a ‘virtual’ point (not illustrated) located some distance below or behind the multibeam diffraction grating 120 .
  • the converging light beams 102 may converge to a point (not illustrated) above or in front of the multibeam diffraction grating 120 , according to some examples.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 includes a plurality of diffractive features 122 that provide diffraction.
  • the provided diffraction is responsible for the diffractive coupling of the guided light 104 out of the light guide 110 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include one or both of grooves in a surface of the light guide 110 and ridges protruding from the light guide surface 110 that serve as the diffractive features 122 .
  • the grooves and ridges may be arranged parallel to one another and, at least at some point, perpendicular to a propagation direction of the guided light 104 that is to be coupled out by the multibeam diffraction grating 120 .
  • the grooves and ridges may be etched, milled or molded into the surface or applied on the surface.
  • a material of the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include a material of the light guide 110 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 includes substantially parallel grooves that penetrate the surface of the light guide 110 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may be a film or layer applied or affixed to the light guide surface. The diffraction grating 120 may be deposited on the light guide surface, for example.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may be arranged in a variety of configurations at, on or in the surface of the light guide 110 , according to various examples.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may be a member of a plurality of gratings (e.g., multibeam diffraction gratings) arranged in columns and rows across the light guide surface.
  • a plurality of multibeam diffraction gratings 120 may be arranged in groups (e.g., a group of three gratings, each grating in the group being associated with a different color of light) and the groups may be arranged in rows and columns.
  • the plurality of multibeam diffraction gratings 120 may be distributed substantially randomly across the surface of the light guide 110 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include a chirped diffraction grating 120 .
  • the chirped diffraction grating 120 is a diffraction grating exhibiting or having a diffraction spacing d of the diffractive features that varies across an extent or length of the chirped diffraction grating 120 , as illustrated in FIGS. 2A-2C .
  • the varying diffraction spacing d is referred to as a ‘chirp’.
  • guided light 104 that is diffractively coupled out of the light guide 110 exits or is emitted from the chirped diffraction grating 120 as the light beam 102 at different diffraction angles ⁇ m corresponding to different points of origin across the chirped diffraction grating 120 , e.g., see equation (1) above.
  • the chirped diffraction grating 120 may produce the plurality of light beams 102 having different principal angular directions in terms of the elevation component ⁇ of the light beams 102 .
  • the chirped diffraction grating 120 may have or exhibit a chirp of the diffractive spacing d that varies linearly with distance.
  • the chirped diffraction grating 120 may be referred to as a ‘linearly chirped’ diffraction grating.
  • FIGS. 2B and 2C illustrates the multibeam diffraction grating 120 as a linearly chirped diffraction grating, for example.
  • the diffractive features 122 are closer together at a second end 120 ′′ of the multibeam diffraction grating 120 than at a first end 120 ′.
  • the diffractive spacing d of the illustrated diffractive features 122 varies linearly from the first end 120 ′ to the second end 120 ′′.
  • light beams 102 produced by coupling light out of the light guide 110 using the multibeam diffraction grating 120 including the chirped diffraction grating may diverge (i.e., be diverging light beams 102 ) when the guided light 104 propagates in a direction from the first end 120 ′ to the second end 120 ′′ (e.g., as illustrated in FIG. 2B ).
  • converging light beams 102 may be produced when the guided light 104 propagates from the second end 120 ′′ to the first end 120 ′ (e.g., as illustrated in FIG. 2C ), according to other examples.
  • the chirped diffraction grating 120 may exhibit a non-linear chirp of the diffractive spacing d.
  • Various non-linear chirps that may be used to realize the chirped diffraction grating 120 include, but are not limited to, an exponential chirp, a logarithmic chirp and a chirp that varies in another, substantially non-uniform or random but still monotonic manner.
  • Non-montonic chirps such as, but not limited to, a sinusoidal chirp and a triangle or sawtooth chirp, may also be employed.
  • the diffractive features 122 within the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may have varying orientations relative to an incident direction of the guided light 104 .
  • an orientation of the diffractive features 122 at a first point within the multibeam diffraction grating 130 may differ from an orientation of the diffractive features 122 at another point.
  • an azimuthal component ⁇ of the principal angular direction ⁇ , ⁇ of the light beam 102 may be determined by or correspond to the azimuthal orientation angle ⁇ f of the diffractive features 122 at a point of origin of the light beam 102 , according to some examples.
  • the varying orientations of the diffractive features 122 within the multibeam diffraction grating 120 produce different light beams 102 having different principle angular directions ⁇ , ⁇ , at least in terms of their respective azimuthal components ⁇ .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include diffractive features 122 that are either curved or arranged in a generally curved configuration.
  • the diffractive features 122 may include one of curved grooves and curved ridges that are spaced apart from one another along radius of the curve.
  • FIG. 2A illustrates curved diffractive features 122 as curved, spaced apart grooves, for example.
  • an ‘underlying diffraction grating’ of the multibeam diffraction grating 120 associated with the curved diffractive features 122 has a different azimuthal orientation angle ⁇ f .
  • the curve has a particular azimuthal orientation angle ⁇ f that generally differs from another point along the curved diffractive feature 122 .
  • the particular azimuthal orientation angle ⁇ f results in a corresponding azimuthal component ⁇ of a principal angular direction ⁇ , ⁇ of a light beam 102 emitted from the given point.
  • the curve of the diffractive feature(s) e.g., groove, ridge, etc.
  • the circle may be coplanar with the light guide surface.
  • the curve may represent a section of an ellipse or another curved shape, e.g., that is coplanar with the light guide surface.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include diffractive features 122 that are ‘piecewise’ curved.
  • the diffractive feature may not describe a substantially smooth or continuous curve per se, at different points along the diffractive feature within the multibeam diffraction grating 120 , the diffractive feature still may be oriented at different angles with respect to the incident direction of the guided light 104 .
  • the diffractive feature 122 may be a groove including a plurality of substantially straight segments, each segment having a different orientation than an adjacent segment. Together, the different angles of the segments may approximate a curve (e.g., a segment of a circle), according to various examples. See FIG. 3 , which is described below.
  • the features may merely have different orientations relative to the incident direction of the guided light at different locations within the multibeam diffraction grating 120 without approximating a particular curve (e.g., a circle or an ellipse).
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include both differently oriented diffractive features 122 and a chirp of the diffractive spacing d.
  • both the orientation and the spacing d between the diffractive features 122 may vary at different points within the multibeam diffraction grating 120 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may include a curved and chirped diffraction grating 120 having grooves or ridges that are both curved and vary in spacing d as a function of a radius of the curve.
  • FIG. 2A illustrates the multibeam diffraction grating 120 including diffractive features 122 (e.g., grooves or ridges) that are both curved and chirped (i.e., is a curved, chirped diffraction grating).
  • diffractive features 122 e.g., grooves or ridges
  • An example incident direction of the guided light 104 is illustrated by a bold arrow in FIG. 2A .
  • FIG. 2A also illustrates the plurality of emitted light beams 102 provided by diffractive coupling as arrows pointing away from the surface of the light guide 110 . As illustrated, the light beams 102 are emitted in a plurality of different principal angular directions.
  • different principal angular directions of the emitted light beams 102 are different in both azimuth and elevation, as illustrated.
  • Six separate light beams 102 are illustrated in FIG. 2A , by way of example and not limitation.
  • the chirp of the diffractive features 122 may be substantially responsible for an elevation component of the different principal angular directions, while the curve of the diffractive features 122 may be substantially responsible for the azimuthal component, according to some examples.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a plan view of a multibeam diffraction grating 120 , according to another example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 120 is on a surface of a light guide 110 and includes diffractive features 122 that are both piece-wise curved and chirped.
  • An example incident direction of guided light 104 is illustrated by a bold arrow in FIG. 3 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 may further include the light source 130 , according to some examples.
  • the light source 130 may be configured to provide light that, when coupled into the light guide 110 , is the guided light 104 .
  • the light source 130 may be substantially any source of light including, but not limited to, one or more of a light emitting diode (LED), a fluorescent light and a laser.
  • the light source 130 may produce a substantially monochromatic light having a narrowband spectrum denoted by a particular color.
  • the color of the monochromatic light may be a primary color of a particular color gamut or color model (e.g., a red-green-blue (RGB) color model).
  • the light source 130 may be a red LED and the monochromatic light 102 is substantially the color red.
  • the light source 30 may be a green LED and the monochromatic light 130 is substantially green in color.
  • the light source 130 may be a blue LED and the monochromatic light 130 is substantially blue in color.
  • the light provided by the light source 130 has a substantially broadband spectrum.
  • the light produced by the light source 130 may be white light.
  • the light source 130 may be a fluorescent light that produces white light.
  • the guided light 104 may be light from the light source 130 that is coupled into an end or an edge of the light guide 110 .
  • a lens (not illustrated) may facilitate coupling of light into the light guide 110 at the end or edge thereof, for example.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 is substantially transparent.
  • both of the light guide 110 and the multibeam diffraction grating 120 may be optically transparent in a direction orthogonal to a direction of guided light propagation in the light guide 110 , according to some examples.
  • Optical transparency may allow objects on one side of the directional grating-based backlight 100 to be seen from an opposite side, for example.
  • an electronic display is provided.
  • the electronic display is configured to emit modulated light beams as pixels of the electronic display.
  • the emitted modulated light beams may be preferentially directed toward a viewing direction of the electronic display as a plurality of differently directed light beams.
  • the electronic display is a three-dimensional (3-D) electronic display (e.g., a glasses-free 3-D electronic display).
  • Different ones of the modulated, differently directed light beams may correspond to different ‘views’ associated with the 3-D electronic display, according to various examples.
  • the different ‘views’ may provide a ‘glasses free’ (e.g., autostereoscopic) representation of information being displayed by the 3-D electronic display, for example.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of an electronic display 200 , according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • the electronic display 200 illustrated in FIG. 4 is a 3-D electronic display 200 (e.g., a ‘glasses free’ 3-D electronic display) configured to emit modulated light beams 202 .
  • the emitted, modulated light beams 202 are illustrated as diverging (e.g., as opposed to converging) in FIG. 4 by way of example and not limitation.
  • the 3-D electronic display 200 illustrated in FIG. 4 includes a plate light guide 210 to guide light.
  • the guided light in the plate light guide 210 is a source of the light that becomes the modulated light beams 202 emitted by the 3-D electronic display 200 .
  • the plate light guide 210 may be substantially similar to the light guide 110 described above with respect to multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 .
  • the plate light guide 210 may be a slab optical waveguide that is a planar sheet of dielectric material configured to guide light by total internal reflection.
  • the 3-D electronic display 200 illustrated in FIG. 4 further includes a multibeam diffraction grating 220 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 220 may be substantially similar to the multibeam diffraction grating 120 of the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 , described above.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 220 is configured to couple out a portion of the guided light as a plurality of light beams 204 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 220 is configured to direct the light beams 204 in a corresponding plurality of different principal angular directions.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 220 includes a chirped diffraction grating.
  • diffractive features e.g., grooves, ridges, etc.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating 220 includes a chirped diffraction grating having curved diffractive features.
  • the curved diffractive features may include a ridge or a groove that is curved (i.e., continuously curved or piece-wise curved) and a spacing between the curved diffractive features that may vary as a function of distance across the multibeam diffraction grating 220 .
  • the 3-D electronic display 200 further includes a light valve array 230 .
  • the light valve array 230 includes a plurality of light valves configured to modulate the differently directed light beams 204 of the plurality, according to various examples.
  • the light valves of the light valve array 230 modulate the differently directed light beams 204 to provide the modulated light beams 202 that are the pixels of the 3-D electronic display 200 .
  • different ones of the modulated, differently directed light beams 202 may correspond to different views of the 3-D electronic display.
  • different types of light valves in the light valve array 230 may be employed including, but not limited to, liquid crystal light valves and electrophoretic light valves. Dashed lines are used in FIG. 4 to emphasize modulation of the light beams 202 .
  • the light valve array 230 employed in the 3-D display may be relatively thick or equivalently may be spaced apart from the multibeam diffraction grating 220 by a relatively large distance.
  • the light valve array 230 (e.g., using the liquid crystal light valves) may be spaced apart from the multibeam diffraction grating 220 or equivalently have a thickness that is greater than about 50 micrometers.
  • the light valve array 230 may be spaced apart from the multibeam diffraction grating 220 or include a thickness that is greater than about 100 micrometers. In yet other examples, the thickness or spacing may be greater than about 200 micrometers.
  • a relatively thick light valve array 230 or a light valve array 230 that is spaced apart from the multibeam diffraction grating 220 may be employed since the multibeam diffraction grating 220 provides light beams 204 directed in a plurality of different principal angular directions, according to various examples of the principles described herein.
  • the relatively thick light valve array 230 may be commercially available (e.g., a commercially available liquid crystal light valve array).
  • the 3-D electronic display 200 further includes a light source 240 .
  • the light source 240 is configured to provide light that propagates in the plate light guide 210 as the guided light.
  • the guided light is light from the light source 240 that is coupled into the edge of the plate light guide 210 , according to some examples.
  • the light source 240 is substantially similar to the light source 130 described above with respect to the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 .
  • the light source 240 may include an LED of a particular color (e.g., red, green, blue) to provide monochromatic light or a broadband light source such as, but not limited to, a fluorescent light to provide broadband light (e.g., white light).
  • a particular color e.g., red, green, blue
  • a broadband light source such as, but not limited to, a fluorescent light to provide broadband light (e.g., white light).
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a flow chart of a method 300 of electronic display operation, according to an example consistent with the principles described herein.
  • the method 300 of electronic display operation includes guiding 310 light in a light guide.
  • the light guide and the guided light may be substantially similar to the light guide 110 and guided light 104 , described above with respect to the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 .
  • the light guide may guide 310 the guided light according to total internal reflection.
  • the light guide may be a substantially planar dielectric optical waveguide (e.g., a plate light guide), in some examples.
  • the method 300 of electronic display operation further includes diffractively coupling out 320 a portion of the guided light using a multibeam diffraction grating.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating is located at a surface of the light guide.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating may be formed in the surface of the light guide as grooves, ridges, etc.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating may include a film on the light guide surface.
  • the multibeam diffraction grating is substantially similar to the multibeam diffraction grating 120 described above with respect to the multibeam directional grating-based backlight 100 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating produces a plurality of light beams from the diffractively coupled out 320 portion of the guided light.
  • the method 300 of electronic display operation further includes diffractively redirecting 330 the light beams of the plurality away from the light guide surface.
  • a light beam of the plurality that is diffractively redirected 330 away from the surface has a different principal angular direction from other light beams of the plurality.
  • each diffractively redirected light beam of the plurality has a different principal angular direction relative to the other light beams of the plurality.
  • Diffractively redirecting 330 the light beams away from the surface further employs the multibeam diffraction grating.
  • diffractively redirecting 330 the light beams of the plurality away from the surface in different principal angular directions using the multibeam diffraction grating may be substantially similar to the operation of the multibeam diffraction grating 120 , described above with respect to the multibeam diffraction grating-based backlight 100 .
  • the multibeam diffraction grating may simultaneously, or substantially simultaneously, diffractively couple out 320 and diffractively redirect 330 the guided light as a plurality of light beams in accordance with the method 300 .
  • the method 300 of electronic display operation further includes modulating 340 the light beams of the plurality of light beams using a corresponding plurality of light valves.
  • the diffractively redirected 330 plurality of light beams is modulated 340 by passing through or otherwise interacting with the corresponding plurality of light valves.
  • the modulated light beams may form pixels of a three-dimensional (3-D) electronic display, according to some examples.
  • the modulated light beams may provide a plurality of views of the 3-D electronic display (e.g., a glasses-free, 3-D electronic display).
  • the plurality of light valves used in modulating 340 the plurality of light beams is substantially similar to the light valve array 230 described above with respect to the 3-D electronic display 200 .
  • the light valves may include liquid crystal light valves.
  • the light valves may be another type of light valve including, but not limited to, an electrowetting light valve and an electrophoretic light valve.

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