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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ningfeng Huang, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexander Koshelev, Redmond, WA (US);
Giuseppe Calafiore, Redmond, CA (US);
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A pupil-replicating waveguide usable in a VR display may have a slab of transparent material, an input grating coupler supported by the slab at the center of the slab, with output gratings supported by the slab and surrounding the input grating coupler. The input grating coupler couples image light into the slab, which propagates in the slab by total internal reflections. The out-coupling grating or gratings spread the image light all around the input grating, providing a wide beam of image light illuminating the eyebox of the VR display.