Hughes Aircraft Company

Luminit LLC

Hughes Electronics Corporation

Khin Swe Yin

Kevin H Yu

Fedor Dimov

Dmitry Voloschenko

John E Wreede

Engin B Arik

Neven Rakuljic

John E Gunther

Tin M Aye

Michael J Virgadamo

David D Tanaka

Angel F Banuelos

Svetlana Soboleva

Myo Kyaw

A method for design and fabrication of holographic optical elements for a compact holographic sight is proposed. The method includes use of ray-trace software to design holographic elements having optical power using an intermediate hologram with parameters obtained through minimization of the merit function defining image quality.

Method for design and manufacturing of optics for holographic sight

A holographic substrate-guided wave-based see-through display has a microdisplay, capable of emitting light in the form of an image. The microdisplay directs its output to a holographic optical element, capable of accepting the image from the microdisplay, and capable of transmitting the light. The holographic optical element couples its output to an elongate substrate, capable of accepting the light from the holographic optical element at a first location, and transmitting the light along a length of the substrate by internal reflection to a second location, the elongate substrate being capable of transmitting the accepted light from the second location. The substrate couples out what it receives to a transparent holographic optical element, capable of accepting the light transmitted from the substrate and transmitting it to a location outside of the holographic optical element as a viewable image.

Holographic substrate-guided wave-based see-through display

A collimator can be made of a compound holographic optical element made of three holographic optical elements. The first reflection holographic optical element will have recorded within it continuous lens configured to receive light from a diffuse light beam and diffract the received light as a first collimated light beam. The second reflection holographic optical element will have recorded within it a regular hologram that is configured to permit the light from the diffuse light source to transmit through it to reach the first reflection holographic element, the second reflection holographic element having within it a second holographically reflective structure configured to receive the first collimated light beam and diffract the first collimated light beam as a second collimated light beam. The third transmission holographic optical element is configured to receive the second collimated light beam and diffract it as a third holographic light beam.

Apparatus and method for collimating diffused light using a compound holographic optical element

A hologram decal structure including a photopolymer hologram layer having hologram fringes recorded therein, a transparent pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed on a first surface of the photopolymer hologram layer, and a transparent urethane coating disposed on a second surface of the photopolymer hologram layer, and techniques for making the hologram decal.

Photopolymer holographic decal for plastic substrate

A process for making a multilayer photopolymer hologram structure without intervening adhesive layers between component photopolymer layers. The process includes the steps of exposing a first photopolymer recording layer to hologram forming light, exposing the holographically exposed first photopolymer recording layer to UV light to partially UV harden the first photopolymer recording layer, exposing a second photopolymer recording layer to hologram forming light, exposing the holographically exposed second photopolymer recording layer to UV light for a time interval that is sufficiently short to preserve the tackiness of the second photopolymer recording layer, laminating the second photopolymer recording layer onto the first photopolymer recording layer to form a laminar photopolymer structure having top and bottom photopolymer surfaces, baking the laminar photopolymer structure while subjecting the top and bottom surfaces thereof to the uniform pressure, and exposing the laminar photopolymer structure to UV light.

Lamination of multilayer photopolymer holograms

A method for transferring a photopolymer hologram from a curved exposure surface to a curved application surface including the steps of forming a release layer on the exposure surface, forming a photopolymer layer on the release layer, forming a protective layer on the photopolymer layer, recording a hologram in the photopolymer layer, removing the protective layer, attaching the laminar assembly comprised of the exposure substrate, the release layer and the photopolymer layer to the curved application surface of the final substrate with an optical adhesive layer located between the photopolymer layer and the curved application surface, and removing the exposure substrate from the release layer.

Transfer of photopolymer hologram from a curve surface to another curve

A hologram decal including a hologram layer having first and second surfaces, a first polymer layer secured to the first hologram surface, a second polymer layer secured to the second hologram surface, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed on the non-hologram side of one of the first and second polymer layers, and a release liner covering said pressure sensitive adhesive layer, and techniques for making the hologram decal.

Laminated hologram decals for identification cards and the like

Multiple layers or holographic exposures and methods for preparing multiple layers of holographic exposures are described. The multiple layers of holographic exposure combine to form holographic stacks and are fabricated from layers of exposed and processed photosensitive recording films, each of which has at least one independently recorded hologram. The holographic stacks are useful for providing wide bandwidth holograms and holograms having superimposed images.

Multiple layer holograms

A method is disclosed for making holograms on transparent surfaces. A protective thin substrate 18 is laminated to a temporary support 24 for processing. This procedure protects the delicate thin substrate 18 through the processing steps. Upon completion of the processing steps, the thin substrate 18 is then removed from the temporary support 24. The applied photosensitive material gives the delicate thin substrate 18 added strength. The thin substrate 18 is then laminated to the final surface 26. In one embodiment, the final surface 26 corresponds to a car windshield 34. Playback lamps 36 located in the dashboard 32 illuminate the thin substrate 18 to read the holographic image.

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Alhambra, CA, United States of America

Khin Swe Yin