Abstract: A head mounted display is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a head mounted display includes a lens unit configured to be disposed in front of an eye of a wearer; an holographic optical element disposed on an eye side surface or a surface opposite the eye side surface of the lens unit; and an image display unit configured to be disposed on a lateral side of the eye of the wearer and configured to output image display light. The image display unit includes at least one of a liquid crystal display panel or an organic light emitting display panel to output the image display light toward the holographic optical element, and the holographic optical element diffracts the image display light and reflects the diffracted image display light toward the eye of the wearer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a head mounted display which can secure an eye motion box having a certain level by implementing an image using a holographic optical element, the eye motion box being an area where a wearer can visually recognize the image, extend the field of view (FOV) of the wearer by disposing a lens (imaging lens) on an optical path between a display source and the holographic optical element, and secure an eye motion box having a certain level and extend the field of view (FOV) of the wearer by adjusting the positions of the display source and the lens.

Abstract: A diffraction light guide plate capable of increasing the area of an output image without increasing the total size thereof and having an advantage that the pupil position of a user is not limited. The diffraction light guide plate comprises first and second diffraction optical elements, wherein the first diffraction optical element is an element capable of receiving light incident onto the first diffraction optical element and outputting the received light toward the second diffraction optical element, and the second diffraction optical element is an element capable of emitting light therefrom out of the incident light from the first diffraction optical element.

Abstract: A holographic waveguide includes a light guide unit configured to guide lights; a first holographic optical element disposed on one surface or the other surface of the light guide unit and configured to diffract an input light; a second holographic optical element disposed on any one of the one surface and the other surface, and configured to receive a light diffracted by the first holographic optical element and to direct a part of the received light to the other one of the one surface and the other surface; a third holographic optical element disposed on a surface, and configured to receive diffracted lights by the second holographic optical element and to guide the lights; and a fourth holographic optical element configured to receive a diffracted light by the third holographic optical element, and to allow the light to be output from the light guide unit.

Abstract: A smaller and lighter diffraction light guide plate, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a light source; a compensating diffraction optical element which reflects a light incident from the light source; and an off-axis reflection diffraction optical element which reflects a light reflected from the compensating diffraction optical element to the outside, wherein the compensating diffraction optical element reflects the light incident from the light source toward the off-axis reflection diffraction optical element while adjusting the reflection angle of the light incident from the light source so as to compensate for the reflection angle distortion of the light reflected from the off-axis reflection diffraction optical element.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for manufacturing a diffractive optical element, the apparatus including: a prism for manufacturing a diffractive optical element, the prism comprising a photoreactive material attachment surface and a light reflecting surface inclined at a predetermined angle from the photoreactive material attachment surface; and a light source positioned at the opposite side of the prism with respect to the photoreactive material attached to the photoreactive material attachment surface, and configured to irradiate light toward the photoreactive material, and a method for manufacturing a diffractive optical element.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a heterogeneous material joined body, the method comprising irradiating a surface of a glass layer with a first laser to form two or more etched lines on the surface of the glass layer; providing a resin layer on the surface of the glass layer having the two or more etched lines; and irradiating the surface of the glass layer with the resin layer with a second laser to fill the etched lines and the surface of the glass layer with the resin layer and join the resin layer and the glass layer, wherein the glass layer having the two or more etched lines is irradiated with the second laser in a direction from the glass layer to the resin layer with focus on the surface of the glass layer which is in contact with the resin layer.

Abstract: A diffractive light guide plate and a display device including the same, the diffractive light guide plate including a light guide unit; a first diffractive optical element including a linear grating repeatedly formed at a predetermined pitch; and a second diffractive optical element disposed in a region distinct from a region where the first diffractive optical element is disposed and including a two-dimensional pattern provided in a region where a virtual first linear pattern repeatedly arranged at a predetermined pitch along a first direction and a virtual second linear pattern repeatedly arranged at a predetermined pitch along a second direction intersect each other, where a horizontal section of the two-dimensional pattern has an elliptical shape and an angle between the long axis of the elliptical shape and a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the linear grating in the first diffractive optical element is less than 20°.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a diffraction light guide plate, including a light guide unit, an input diffraction optical device configured to receive light from a light source and diffract the received light, an intermediate diffraction optical device configured to receive the diffracted light from the input diffraction optical device and extend the received light one-dimensionally by diffraction, and an output diffraction optical device configured to receive the extended light from the intermediate diffraction optical device and output the received light from the light guide unit by diffraction. The intermediate diffraction optical device and the output diffraction optical device are separately disposed in regions divided horizontally on the light guide unit, and the intermediate diffraction optical device includes a main intermediate diffraction optical device and an auxiliary intermediate diffraction optical device, which are disposed separate apart from each other vertically on the light guide unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a waveguide display apparatus. The waveguide waveguide display apparatus of the present disclosure is a waveguide display apparatus for correcting curved surface reflection distortion, the waveguide display apparatus including a waveguide for guiding light inputted from the outside; a first diffractive optical element disposed at the waveguide, and diffracting the light inputted from the outside to the inside of the waveguide; and a second diffractive optical element disposed at the waveguide, and diffracting the light guided by the waveguide to output a plurality of diffracted lights in a direction of a curved surface reflector located outside, wherein the second diffractive optical element has a structure of a diffraction grating corresponding to a curvature of the curved surface reflector such that the diffracted lights are reflected at different locations of the curved surface reflector in directions parallel to each other.

Abstract: A diffractive light guide plate including a light guide unit; an input diffractive optical element that receives lights output from a light source and diffracts the received lights to be guided on the light guide unit; and two output diffractive optical elements disposed in a predetermined region of the light guide unit and having different linear grating patterns from each other, wherein the two output diffractive optical elements are configured so that each one output diffractive optical element receives the lights from the input diffractive optical element and allows the received lights to be directed to the other output diffractive optical element by diffraction, and so that each one output diffractive optical element receives lights from the other output diffractive optical element and allows the received lights to be output from the light guide unit by diffraction, and the two output diffractive optical elements having different linear grating patterns are alternately arranged in at least one dimension

Abstract: An embodiment according to an aspect of the present disclosure provides a device for manufacturing a display lens, a method for manufacturing a display lens using the device, and a head-mounted display device including the display lens manufactured thereby. The device for manufacturing a display lens including a holographic optical element formed by recording a hologram on a photosensitive substrate, in which a substrate is coated with a photosensitive material, through irradiation of laser beams includes: a first laser light incidence unit configured to cause first laser light, converging along an irradiation direction, to be incident on one surface of the photosensitive substrate; and a second laser light incidence unit configured to cause second laser light, diverging at a plurality of points along an irradiation direction, to be incident on the other surface of the photosensitive substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a diffraction light guide plate including: a light guide unit; an input diffraction optical element configured to diffract light which is outputted from a light source and inputted to the input diffraction optical element, to guide the inputted light on the light guide unit; and two diffraction optical elements configured to receive the diffracted light from the input diffraction optical element and one-dimensionally expand the received light by diffraction, wherein each of the two diffraction optical elements receives the expanded light from the other of the diffraction optical elements and outputs the received light from the light guide unit by the diffraction, and there is no region where the two diffraction optical elements overlap each other on the light guide unit.

Abstract: A diffraction light guide plate, including: a first diffraction substrate; and a second diffraction substrate provided on the first diffraction substrate. The first diffraction substrate includes a first diffraction grating layer on one surface and a second diffraction grating layer on an opposite surface. The second diffraction substrate includes a third diffraction grating layer on one surface and a stress compensation layer on an opposite surface. The first diffraction grating layer separates light having a wavelength of 550 nm or more and 700 nm or less, the second diffraction grating layer separates light having a wavelength of 400 nm or more and 550 nm or less, the third diffraction grating layer separates light having a wavelength of 450 nm or more and 650 nm or less, and the stress compensation layer has stress in the same direction as a direction of stress of the third diffraction grating layer.

Abstract: A method of quantifying whether an adhesive agent leaks from a polarizing plate and/or a degree of leakage of the adhesive agent according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, including: (a) preparing a polarizing plate including an adhesive layer; (b) providing the polarizing plate so that one end of the polarizing plate adjoins a guide unit; (c) moving the polarizing plate on the guide unit; (d) measuring frictional force applied between the polarizing plate and the guide unit while moving the polarizing plate; (e) deriving a determination criterion based on the measured value of the frictional force, and (f) determining whether the adhesive agent leaks from the polarizing plate and/or the degree of leakage of the adhesive agent based on the determination criterion.

Abstract: A display device capable of minimizing a light loss occurring due to photodiffraction by scattering, through a light scattering unit, light outputted by a light output unit in a given direction is provided. A part for the display device includes a light scattering unit configured to scatter light, and a light guide unit configured to expand the scattered light in a given direction. The light guide unit includes a light guide, a first optical element disposed on one surface or other surface of the light guide and a second optical element disposed on the one surface or the other surface of the light guide.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a holographic optical element, including: irradiating a first surface of a photosensitive substrate with a first layer, and irradiating a second surface of the photosensitive substrate with a second laser. The light emitted by the first laser is spread in an irradiation direction and the light emitted by the second laser is collected in the irradiation direction to form a plurality of groups and a plurality of overlapping angles formed by a progress direction of the light emitted by the first laser and the progress direction of the light emitted by the second laser at a predetermined location of a photosensitive area, and each of the plurality of the overlapping angles are different from each other. A display device including the holographic optical element measured using this method.

Abstract: A system for observing an object by using a hologram optical element is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a system for observing an object includes an infrared (IR) light source for emitting infrared light, a hologram optical element (HOE) including an optical element film, wherein the optical element film for reflecting and diffracting the emitted infrared light, wherein infrared light of a specific wavelength from among the emitted infrared light emitted is reflected towards the object, and an IR light detector for detecting the infrared light of a specific wavelength reflected from the object.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a diffraction light guide plate, including a light guide unit, an input diffraction optical device configured to receive light from a light source and diffract the received light, an intermediate diffraction optical device configured to receive the diffracted light from the input diffraction optical device and extend the received light one-dimensionally by diffraction, and an output diffraction optical device configured to receive the extended light from the intermediate diffraction optical device and output the received light from the light guide unit by diffraction. The intermediate diffraction optical device and the output diffraction optical device are separately disposed in regions divided horizontally on the light guide unit, and the intermediate diffraction optical device includes a main intermediate diffraction optical device and an auxiliary intermediate diffraction optical device, which are disposed separate apart from each other vertically on the light guide unit.