Image capture via a wedge light-guide with no margins

doi:10.1364/OE.18.008453

Image capture via a wedge light-guide with no margins

Adrian R. L. Travis, Tim Large, Neil Emerton, Zhaoming Zhu, and Steven Bathiche »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 8, pp. 8453-8458 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.008453

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Abstract

We report the capture of images via a wedge light-guide without the margin for fan-in needed heretofore. While this lets one look out of a slim panel as if it were a periscope, half the power is lost and resolution is degraded by aperture diffraction. Volume gratings may resolve these drawbacks at certain wavelengths and we consider how these might be extruded.

OCIS Codes
(050.7330) Diffraction and gratings : Volume gratings
(080.3630) Geometric optics : Lenses
(110.2990) Imaging systems : Image formation theory
(230.7390) Optical devices : Waveguides, planar

ToC Category:
Imaging Systems

History
Original Manuscript: January 22, 2010
Revised Manuscript: April 4, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: April 5, 2010
Published: April 7, 2010

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Adrian R. L. Travis, Tim Large, Neil Emerton, Zhaoming Zhu, and Steven Bathiche, "Image capture via a wedge light-guide with no margins," Opt. Express 18, 8453-8458 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-8-8453

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