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My Etendue Story

by Kenneth Li

Etendue is a familiar word among optical engineers especially projection engine designers. It represents how “spread out” the light from a source is. The unit of measure is simply (sr * m²), the product …

Tags:Fibre optics| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Optics| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Liquid Lens used to Address Problems in a Holographic Display System

by Arthur Berman

A recent publication introduces and discusses the innovative use of an electronically focusable liquid lens as the means to address chromatic aberration problems experienced in prior art, time-sequential holographic display systems. The team undertaking …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Holography| Optics| Vol 22 - Issue 31

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Kverve Has New Optics for AR (DS11b)

by Bob Raikes

Jorn Eriksen is from Kverve, a start up from Norway (Eriksen was the founder of CEO of Projection Design, so has some track record in the industry). The project that Kverve is working on …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Digilens Creates Polymer Optics (DS11)

by Bob Raikes

Jonathan Waldern is CEO of Digilens which has a new kind of material for waveguide optics. He started by asking “who has heard of Google Glass?” – who has tried it, and who would …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Optics| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 26

ImagineOptix Shows Polarization-Based Waveguide for AR Headsets

by Chris Chinnock

ImagineOptix has been on our radar for a few years because of its development of a Polarization Grating – Polarization Conversion System (PG-PCS). This is a clever technology that uses liquid crystal based polymer …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Polarisers| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Waveguide Display| Wearables