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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique ET DE Microtechnique Sa-recherche ET Développement, Neuchâtel, CH;

Inventors:

Guillaume Basset, Huningue, FR;

Giorgio Quaranta, Saint Louis, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 6/0016 (2013.01); G02B 6/0036 (2013.01); G02B 27/1086 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0118 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01);
Abstract

An optical combiner including an array of pairs of resonating waveguide gratings. The waveguiding layer of the array, which includes the resonating waveguide gratings, is configured to guide at most ten guided light modes in the visible wavelength range. At least a portion of the resonating waveguide grating array is configured to incouple a portion of incident light on the array and to outcouple a fraction of that incident light. The outcoupled fraction has a predetermined wavelength λ in the visible and near-infrared wavelength range and has a predetermined spectral width Δλ. The optical combiner is preferably configured to be used in a near-eye display apparatus. The invention is also achieved by a near-eye display apparatus that is adapted to combine projected images provided by a light emitter with light provided by a scene observed by an observer looking through the optical combiner.


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