Blazed gratings are widely used for surface relief grating (SRG) waveguides for augmented reality displays. To increase the efficiency and design freedom of blazed gratings the control of the anti-blaze angle has gained attention lately. We will demonstrate mastering processes to realize blazed gratings with positive, vertical and negative anti-blaze angles on masters for the replication of SRG waveguides.
Larger field of view, better image quality and higher efficiency in Augmented Reality (AR) glasses demands masters with large uniform diffraction gratings. Typically, a surface relief waveguide master is composed of input, output and deflection/expander gratings which all can either be slanted, blazed or binary gratings. Control of the angle of slanted and blazed gratings especially over large areas is an important parameter towards high quality large area gratings. Here we demonstrate large area diffraction gratings for AR applications where the angle uniformity is demonstrated to be +/- 1 degree across an 8-inch wafer. NIL technology has been pioneering the development of high quality large area slanted, binary and blazed grating masters and offers customizable solutions for all of the above-mentioned types of gratings and the gratings can be combined with 100% design freedom on the masters.
To meet the demand for high quality augmented reality displays with larger field of view, large eye box and better image quality, large area diffraction gratings are needed. Across the industry different types of surface relief gratings for in-coupling and out-coupling are used in the waveguide designs to achieve the optimum performance of the waveguide. Typical gratings are slanted, blazed, binary and multi-level gratings. NIL Technology offers solutions for all of the above-mentioned types of gratings meeting the demand for high quality and size of in particular the output gratings from the market.
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