Glass technology enabling a landscape of waveguide architectures for Augmented Reality

Ruediger Sprengard

doi:10.1117/12.2632489

7 March 2022 Glass technology enabling a landscape of waveguide architectures for Augmented Reality

Ruediger Sprengard

Proceedings Volume 11932, SPIE AR, VR, MR Industry Talks 2022; 119320K (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632489
Event: SPIE AR VR MR, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

End users’ expectation to smartglasses is benchmarked by today’s close-to-perfect displays in smartphones and the fashionable wearability of smartwatches. Users expect a deceptively genuine mixed realty experience and uncompromised all-day wearability. Waveguide-based combiner optics are the technology of choice to get there. Different technologies, based on diffractive, reflective and holographic structures, are competing to most efficiently inject, distribute and extract the waveguided information. Driven by the commitment to define the industry’s reference of waveguide materials and components, SCHOTT develops and commercializes dedicated RealView® products to support developers and manufacturers of AR optics. Progress on benchmark performance in ever higher refractive index and lightweight materials is discussed in the context of the industry’s needs for wider Field-of-View, lower weight and high-volume manufacturability. Still, SCHOTT’s contribution to AR does not end here: your will learn more about optical wafer for sensors and meta optics, as well as on hermetic packages for semiconductor light sources

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Ruediger Sprengard "Glass technology enabling a landscape of waveguide architectures for Augmented Reality", Proc. SPIE 11932, SPIE AR, VR, MR Industry Talks 2022, 119320K (7 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632489

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