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Near-eye display (NED) devices are required to provide visual instructions in the fields of education, navigation, military operations, construction, healthcare, etc. The issues with conventional NEDs are the form factor and vergence–accommodation conflict (VAC). The Maxwellian display alleviates the VAC in NEDs by providing consistently focused virtual images to the viewer, regardless of the depth of focus of the human eye. The main limitation of the Maxwellian display is its limited exit pupil size. Due to misalignment of the device or eyeball rotation, the user may miss the eye box, and the image will become lost. To mitigate this limitation, exit pupil expansion can be obtained either statically or dynamically. This paper reviews the various techniques employed to expand the exit pupil. The review includes the principle, advantages, and drawbacks of various techniques for expanding the exit pupil of the Maxwellian display. The structure of the paper starts with an introduction and the principle of the Maxwellian display, followed by a discussion of the main limitations that arise with various techniques, along with potential solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents an augmented reality display consisting of two freeform lenses. The first lens is composed of two aspherical polished surfaces and one plane surface, while the second lens acts as a compensator to allow distortion-free viewing of the surrounding area. One benefit of this design is the large size of the exit pupil, reaching up to 12 mm, and the low distortion value of 1.63 %. The optics has a thickness of 22 mm and is compatible with 0.49-in. diagonal displays. The field of view is limited to 28°, which is sufficient for various augmented reality applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Near-eye display (NED) devices are required to provide visual instructions in the fields of education, navigation, military operations, construction, healthcare, etc. The issues with conventional NEDs are the form factor and vergence–accommodation conflict (VAC). The Maxwellian display alleviates the VAC in NEDs by providing consistently focused virtual images to the viewer, regardless of the depth of focus of the human eye. The main limitation of the Maxwellian display is its limited exit pupil size. Due to misalignment of the device or eyeball rotation, the user may miss the eye box, and the image will become lost. To mitigate this limitation, exit pupil expansion can be obtained either statically or dynamically. This paper reviews the various techniques employed to expand the exit pupil. The review includes the principle, advantages, and drawbacks of various techniques for expanding the exit pupil of the Maxwellian display. The structure of the paper starts with an introduction and the principle of the Maxwellian display, followed by a discussion of the main limitations that arise with various techniques, along with potential solutions.

In most cases of molding with glass or optical polymers, it is expected that there will be birefringence caused by the internal mechanical stresses remaining in the molding material. The distribution of the residual stress can be annealed by slow cooling, but this approach is disadvantageous with respect to the shape accuracy and manufacturing time. In this study, we propose an analytical model to calculate the diffracted field near the focal plane by considering two primary parameters, the orientation angle of the fast axis and the path difference. In order to verify the reliability of the analytical model, we compared the measured beam spot of the F-theta lens of the laser scanning unit (LSU) with the analytical result. In addition, we analyzed the calculated result from the perspective of the polarization status in the exit pupil. The proposed analysis method can be applied to enhance the image quality for cases in which birefringence occurs in a lens material by suitably modeling the amplitude and phase of the incident light flux. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]