An optical system of a head-mounted display (HMD) system that includes a diffractive optical element coupled to a display, for example, via lamination or a suitable optically clear adhesive. The optical system may include a reflective polarizer and a quarter-wave plate that, together with the diffractive optical element, form a catadioptric or “pancake” configuration that focuses light from a display system to an eye of a user of the head mounted display system.

An optical component comprising a planar metasurface arranged on a surface of a first substrate and a top layer arranged in a height direction Z above the metasurface, wherein the metasurface comprises a plurality of scattering structures, wherein a dielectric material is deposited on a subset of the plurality of scattering structures, wherein an active media is sandwiched between the metasurface and the top layer, wherein an incident electromagnetic radiation is transmitted or reflected by the optical component, wherein a phase profile modulation is induced on the incident electromagnetic radiation during the reflection or transmission.

A method of manufacturing an optical element is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of forming a layer of first material on a substrate, forming a plurality of cavities in the layer of first material by an imprinting process, and forming a layer of second material in the plurality of cavities to form an optical meta-surface. Also disclosed is an optical element manufactured according to the method, and an optical device comprising the optical element, and an optical apparatus such as a cellular telephone, a camera, an image-recording device, or a video recording device.

A semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate that is an aggregate of core/shell type semiconductor nanoparticles including a core including In and P and a shell having one or more layers, in which a peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate is from 515 nm to 535 nm and a full width at half maximum of the emission spectrum is 43 nm or less. For each semiconductor nanoparticle, (1) an average value of a full width at half maximum of an emission spectrum is 15 nm or more, (2) a standard deviation of a peak wavelength of the emission spectrum is 12 nm or less, and (3) a standard deviation of the full width at half maximum of the emission spectrum is 2 nm or more.

Provided is a meta-optical device including a meta-lens including a plurality of nano-structures, a band pass filter configured to transmit light of predetermined wavelengths within an operation wavelength band of the meta-lens, and a spacer layer provided between the meta-lens and the band pass filter to support the plurality of nano-structures and to form a separation distance between the meta-lens and the band pass filter.

A meta-optical device for collimating and deflecting a light beam is provided to include a substrate assembly and at least one meta-optical array that is formed on the substrate assembly and that is disposed to receive at least one light beam. The at least one meta-optical array includes a plurality of nanostructures that are made in such a way that the at least one light beam is collimated and deflected after passing through the at least one meta-optical array.

Methods of manufacturing an optical device can include, in some implementations, providing a substrate having a first polymeric layer on a surface of the substrate and a second polymeric layer on the first polymeric layer, forming first openings in the second polymeric layer to define an etch mask composed of material of the second polymeric layer, and etching to form second openings in the first polymeric layer, wherein locations of the second openings are defined by the etch mask. A material is deposited in the second openings to form meta-atoms of a first metastructure, wherein adjacent ones of the meta-atoms are separated from one another by polymeric material of the first polymeric layer. Optical devices including metastructures can be formed, where meta-atoms of the metastructure have a relatively high aspect ratio.

A display device includes: a light source having a light emitting surface configured to emit light, a light transmitting layer covering the light source and having a light exit surface configured to receive the light emitted from the light emitting surface, a first metasurface formed between the light emitting surface and the light transmitting layer and configured to concentrate the light emitted by the light source in a first direction along the light emitting surface, and a second metasurface formed on the light exit surface and configured to split the light received by the light exit surface in the first direction.

A thin-film optical device disclosed herein includes a metalens able to modulate the phase of incident light. The metalens includes a thin-film layer having a first index of refraction, an embedded layer within the thin-film layer, and the embedded layer having a second index of refraction greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 3.0 times the first index of refraction. The embedded layer may fill a plurality of holes formed on the thin film layer, with the depth, width, and spacing of holes all contribute to modulating the phase of light traveling through the metalens.

An imaging system and a method of creating composite images are provided. The imaging system includes one or more lens assemblies coupled to a sensor. When reflected light from an object enters the imaging system, incident light on the metalens filter systems creates filtered light, which is turned into composite images by the corresponding sensors. Each metalens filter system focuses the light into a specific wavelength, creating the metalens images. The metalens images are sent to the processor, wherein the processor combines the metalens images into one or more composite images. The metalens images are combined into a composite image, and the composite image has reduced chromatic aberrations.