Holographically customized optical combiner for eye-box extended near-eye display

We propose a customizing method of a holographic optical element (HOE) by using a holographic printer, which extends the eye-box with high field of view (FOV) for a holographic augmented reality near-eye display (AR NED). The holographic printer setup to manufacture HOE is presented and a prototype of the AR NED is implemented. To make a simple AR NED system, we propose a total internal reflection holographic printing method using an index-matching optical frame. As a result, the eye-box of the AR NED is extended in both vertical and horizontal directions and FOV of 50 degrees is achieved at the center of the eye-box. Through the simulations and the experimental results, the feasibility of the proposed method is verified. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement