WO2019185976A1 - Waveguide element - Google Patents

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WO2019185976A1
WO2019185976A1 PCT/FI2019/050172 FI2019050172W WO2019185976A1 WO 2019185976 A1 WO2019185976 A1 WO 2019185976A1 FI 2019050172 W FI2019050172 W FI 2019050172W WO 2019185976 A1 WO2019185976 A1 WO 2019185976A1
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  • the invention relates to waveguide-based display elements.
  • the invention relates to a waveguide comprising a novel type of diffractive optical element.
  • the invention can be used in modern personal displays, such as Head-mounted displays (HMDs) and head-up displays (HUDs).
  • HMDs Head-mounted displays
  • HUDs head-up displays
  • HMDs and HUDs can be implemented using waveguides.
  • Light can be coupled to waveguide, redirected therein or coupled out of the waveguide and to a user's eye using diffraction gratings.
  • Exit pupil expansion can be carried out in the waveguide using grating at which the light rays bounce in two dimensions, thus effectively spreading the light field to a larger area.
  • grating At each location of the grating, light waves having travelled along different paths are summed. Due to manufacturing-related inaccuracies, waves, whose modelled optical path difference is zero, have actually experienced different phase shifts, making the waves partially coherent.
  • one problem relates to computational challenges induced due to the partial incoherence.
  • Partially coherent waves are of concern particularly when the light source itself is nearly coherent (laser light).
  • the invention provides a waveguide element comprising a waveguide capable of guiding light rays in two dimensions via total internal reflections, and a diffractive optical element (DOE) arranged on or within the waveguide, wherein the DOE is adapted to allow propagation of light rays inside the waveguide along the two dimensions so that the light rays can propagate at least from one first location of the diffractive optical element to at least one second location of the DOE along different routes having the same geometrical optical path length.
  • the DOE is further adapted so that at least for one wavelength range the difference in physical optical path lengths for light rays having propagated along the different routes is longer than the coherence length, so that the rays sum incoherently at the second location.
  • the invention offers significant benefits. Most of all, the invention solves the partial coherence problem at least for some wavelengths and propagation routes in the waveguide and therefore mitigates both coherence-related computational and practical optical quality problems.
  • Fig. 1 shows a top view of a two-dimensional waveguide element having a DOE in accordance with the invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows a schematic cross-sectional view of a waveguide element.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates the graph of the phase as a function of the wavenumber together with a linear approximation thereof.
  • Figs. 4A and 4B show side and top views, respectively, of a microstructure of a single period of a large-period grating.
  • Phase function denotes the phase distribution as a function of the wavenumber within a wavelength (wavenumber) range of interest.
  • Measureal optical path length is herein defined as the distance travelled in waveguide multiplied by real part of the refractive index of the waveguide material for the studied wavelength.
  • Physical optical path length is defined as the slope of the linear approximation to the phase function at the wavelengths of interest. That is, as the ratio between the phase change and the wavenumber difference. We observe that this approximation is used only to simplify the discussion and does not imply that the phase function is or should be linear or nearly so.
  • incoherent and “fully incoherent” describes the relationship between two rays whose path length difference exceeds the coherence length in the waveguide material concerned. Specifically, if the slope of the linear approximation to the difference of the phase functions of two rays exceeds the coherence length, these rays are incoherent.
  • Fig. 1 shows a waveguide element comprising a waveguide 100 capable of guiding light rays in two dimensions via total internal reflections.
  • a DOE 120 There is provided on or within the waveguide 100 a DOE 120.
  • the DOE is adapted to spread light rays inside the waveguide along the two dimensions, for example along first and second routes 160A, 160B between a first location 140 and a second location 150 thereof.
  • the routes 160A, 160B have the same geometrical optical path length.
  • Each arrow represents a single "hop" of rays via total internal reflection in the waveguide from the DOE back to the DOE.
  • the DOE has a suitable diffractive structure so as to turn/split the rays in a predefined manner so as to spread the rays within the DOE.
  • the structure of the DOE 120 is configured to cause a difference in physical optical path lengths for light rays having propagated along the different routes 160A, 160B, which is longer than the coherence length, so that the rays sum incoherently at the second location, at least for some wavelength range.
  • the phase function is not controlled per se and the majority of the phase function along any path is due to manufacturing inaccuracies and is thereby uncontrollable.
  • the phase functions thus induced cause phase function differences for equal geometrical optical path lengths that invalidate coherent summation, but do not have (approximate) slopes large enough to exceed that of the linear phase function corresponding to the coherence length.
  • third and fourth routes 180A, 180B which have the same geometrical optical path length, that, may be the same or different from that of the first and second routes 160A, 160B.
  • there are several location pairs (corresponding to the pair 140/150) for which at least some of the abovementioned conditions hold.
  • the DOE is adapted to cause said difference in physical optical path lengths.
  • the DOE is adapted to cause said difference in the physical optical path lengths for all of the several different routes.
  • Fig. 2 shows schematically a single interaction of a ray with the DOE 122 at a specific location of the waveguide 100.
  • the DOE microstructure (not shown detail) is such that a predefined significant phase shift occurs.
  • the incoming ray has a different phase than the light ray having diffracted by the DOE. This effect is preferably arranged to take place on most or all locations of the DOE.
  • the phase shift efficiency can be wavelength- and/or angle dependent.
  • the DOE comprises several different areas having different grating properties.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates an exemplary typical phase shift curve of a grating structure usable for the purposes of the invention. It can be seen that for at least some wave vector values, and therefore for at least some wavelengths, a large phase shift is caused. The slope describes an approximate of the phase shift between the dotted vertical lines denoting the wavenumber (wavelength) region of interest.
  • the DOE comprises one or more leaky mode grating areas, which participate in the generation of the phase difference.
  • the DOE comprises one or more resonant grating areas, which participate in the generation of the phase difference.
  • resonant grating areas which participate in the generation of the phase difference.
  • Detailed discussion of the type of gratings capable of causing the required phase shift can be found in Vartiainen I. et al, Depolarization of quasi-monochromatic light by thin resonant gratings, OPTICS LETTERS / Vol. 34, No. 1 1 / June 1 , 2009.
  • the DOE is adapted to essentially maintain the intensity of light when the light rays hit the DOE, irrespective of wavelength.
  • each period of the grating comprises a two-dimensional non-periodic microstructure pattern which repeats from period to period within a single grating area.
  • the DOE there is in the DOE at least one area comprising a grating which has a substantially larger period than the wavelength of visible light.
  • the period is at least fivefold compared to the maximum visible light wavelength (700 nm) and typically 5 mhi or more, for example 5 - 75 mhi, and usually less than 1000 mhi.
  • Such gratings are still diffractive for incident light beams that are larger than the period, as the case typically is in display applications, but their diffraction is not limited to conventional few diffraction orders (+/-1 and 0).
  • Such gratings give additional freedoms of design which can be used to implement the desired phase shift behavior all over the DOE.
  • Fig. 4A and 4B show an exemplary unit element 14 having a lateral dimension
  • the unit element has a surface profile 15, which is essentially non-periodic, in order not to decrease the effective period of the grating.
  • the structure is composed of microfeatures, which have the average size f and maximum height of h.
  • f is defined as the average distance from the bottom of a valley to the top of the neighboring peak.
  • the feature size f can be e.g. 10 - 700 nm and maximum height h e.g. 20 - 500 nm.

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