Digital phase conjugation by Texas Instruments PLM for near-to-eye display

Yefu Zhang; Rajesh Shrestha; Emil Rajan Varghese; John Bass; Ted Liang-tai Lee; Jeff Ching-wen Chan; Xianyue Deng; Yushi Kaneda; Florian Willomitzer; Yuzuru Takashima

doi:10.1117/12.3001156

13 March 2024 Digital phase conjugation by Texas Instruments PLM for near-to-eye display

Yefu Zhang, Rajesh Shrestha, Emil Rajan Varghese, John Bass, Ted Liang-tai Lee, Jeff Ching-wen Chan, Xianyue Deng, Yushi Kaneda, Florian Willomitzer, Yuzuru Takashima

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Proceedings Volume 12900, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications XVI; 129000F (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3001156
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2024, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

An ideal Near-to-Eye display (NED) requires high-resolution images, a large field of view (FOV) and depth cues. Sometimes, those performances are degraded due to optical aberrations of optics. To correct for aberrations, in this work, we utilize digital phase conjugation (DPC) with a Texas Instruments phase light modulator (TI-PLM) to generate a 3D image with TIR/geometrical image guide. TI-PLM is a type of MEMS device that modulates the phase of the incoming light by moving the micromirrors in a piston motion, thereby modulating the phase. To measure aberration induced by the image guide combiner, we employed an off-axis holography, capturing the off-axis fringes using a camera sensor. Subsequently, image processing on the captured fringes, involving Fourier transform and cropping of +1st order, to extract the final field information while reducing low-frequency noise. Computer-generated hologram (CGH) was generated to negate the phase aberration, which is then displayed on the PLM. Through phase conjugation, we reconstruct the wavefront, resulting in a series of point sources displayed at different depths, and producing a 3D point images. This method allows us to generate multiple point sources with different depths, contributing to the 3D image in our Near-to-Eye display even via aberrated medium.

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Yefu Zhang, Rajesh Shrestha, Emil Rajan Varghese, John Bass, Ted Liang-tai Lee, Jeff Ching-wen Chan, Xianyue Deng, Yushi Kaneda, Florian Willomitzer, and Yuzuru Takashima "Digital phase conjugation by Texas Instruments PLM for near-to-eye display", Proc. SPIE 12900, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications XVI, 129000F (13 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3001156

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