Wirth-Singh Anna, Fröch Johannes E, Yang Fan, Martin Louis, Zheng Hanyu, Zhang Hualiang, Tanguy Quentin T, Zhou Zhihao, Huang Luocheng, John Demis D, Stamenic Biljana, Hu Juejun, Gu Tian, Majumdar Arka
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Light Sci Appl. 2025 Jan 2;14(1):17. doi: 10.1038/s41377-024-01674-0.
Wide field of view and light weight optics are critical for advanced eyewear, with applications in augmented/virtual reality and night vision. Conventional refractive lenses are often stacked to correct aberrations at a wide field of view, leading to limited performance and increased size and weight. In particular, simultaneously achieving a wide field of view and large aperture for light collection is desirable but challenging to realize in a compact form-factor. Here, we demonstrate a wide field of view (greater than 60) meta-optic doublet eyepiece with an entrance aperture of 2.1 cm. At the design wavelength of 633 nm, the meta-optic doublet achieves comparable performance to a refractive lens-based eyepiece system. This meta-doublet eyepiece illustrates the potential for meta-optics to play an important role in the development of high-quality monochrome near-eye displays and night vision systems.
宽视场和轻质光学器件对于先进眼镜至关重要，在增强/虚拟现实和夜视领域有应用。传统折射透镜通常堆叠起来以校正宽视场下的像差，这导致性能受限以及尺寸和重量增加。特别是，同时实现宽视场和大孔径的光收集是理想的，但要以紧凑的外形实现却具有挑战性。在此，我们展示了一种宽视场（大于60°）的超透镜双合目镜，其入射孔径为2.1厘米。在633纳米的设计波长下，该超透镜双合目镜实现了与基于折射透镜的目镜系统相当的性能。这种超透镜双合目镜说明了超光学器件在高质量单色近眼显示器和夜视系统开发中发挥重要作用的潜力。
