[HTML][HTML] Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives

J Xiong, EL Hsiang, Z He, T Zhan, ST Wu - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
With rapid advances in high-speed communication and computation, augmented reality
(AR) and virtual reality (VR) are emerging as next-generation display platforms for deeper …

[HTML][HTML] Planar liquid crystal polarization optics for augmented reality and virtual reality: from fundamentals to applications

J Xiong, ST Wu - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Planar and ultrathin liquid crystal (LC) polarization optical elements have found promising
applications in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and photonic devices. In this …

Holographic optical elements for augmented reality: principles, present status, and future perspectives

J Xiong, K Yin, K Li, ST Wu - Advanced Photonics Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Holographic optical elements (HOEs) exhibit several unique properties in arbitrary wavefront
recording and extraction. Versatile recording mechanisms and material availabilities further …

[HTML][HTML] Full degree-of-freedom polarization hologram by freeform exposure and inkjet printing

J Xiong, H Zhong, D Cheng, ST Wu, Y Wang - PhotoniX, 2023 - Springer
Since the invention of holography by Dennis Gabor, the fabrication of holograms has mainly
relied on direct recording of wavefront by engraving the intensity fringes of interfering electric …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid crystal beam steering devices: principles, recent advances, and future developments

Z He, F Gou, R Chen, K Yin, T Zhan, ST Wu - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Continuous, wide field-of-view, high-efficiency, and fast-response beam steering devices are
desirable in a plethora of applications. Liquid crystals (LCs)—soft, bi-refringent, and self …

[HTML][HTML] Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template

J Xiong, Q Yang, Y Li, ST Wu - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid crystal polarization optics based on photoalignment technique has found pervasive
applications in next-generation display platforms like virtual reality and augmented reality. Its …

Advances in transparent planar optics: enabling large aperture, ultrathin lenses

NV Tabiryan, DE Roberts, Z Liao… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike electronics, optics do not follow Moore's law. This statement, expressed by Microsoft's
Bernard Kress, refers to the hard challenges to solve in augmented reality hardware. While …

Patterning liquid-crystal alignment for ultrathin flat optics

K Yin, J Xiong, Z He, ST Wu - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
Liquid-crystal (LC)-based ultrathin flat optical elements (FOEs) exhibit several attractive
properties, such as a high degree of optical tunability, strong polarization selectivity, nearly …

Shortening focal length of 100‐mm aperture flat lens based on improved sagnac interferometer and bifacial liquid crystal

Y Wen, Q Zhang, Q He, F Zhang… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional lens technologies face great challenges in applications requiring large
apertures and small f‐numbers, while a liquid crystal (LC) lens based on geometric phase is …

Breaking the field-of-view limit in augmented reality with a scanning waveguide display

J Xiong, G Tan, T Zhan, ST Wu - OSA Continuum, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The ultimate augmented reality (AR) should be a glass-type see-through display with
uncompromised optical performances. The major technical challenge of present AR display …