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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Materials Science
Display Technology

Background:

Near-eye visors are crucial for head-mounted displays (HMDs).
Current designs using freeform optics and waveguides have limited fields of view (FOV) and complexity.
Existing visor placement near the eye exacerbates FOV restrictions.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel flat, freeform near-eye visor design.
To overcome the FOV limitations of current near-eye visor technologies.
To demonstrate a compact and high-performance visor for HMDs.

Main Methods:

Utilized a subwavelength patterned metasurface reflector for the visor.
Designed the visor to impart a spatial phase profile on projected display patterns.
Employed ray optics for initial metasurface design and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations for validation.

Main Results:

Achieved a large field of view (77.3° horizontal and vertical) with the metaform visor.
The visor maintains performance at a close eye-relief distance of 2.5 cm.
Simulations confirmed sufficient modulation transfer function (MTF) for high projected image quality.

Conclusions:

The proposed metasurface visor offers a compact and effective solution for HMDs.
This diffraction-based metaform visor overcomes FOV limitations of conventional designs.
The validated design paves the way for advanced, high-performance near-eye display systems.