An augmented reality providing apparatus is provided. The augmented reality providing apparatus includes a lens including a first lens portion including a first reflective member, and a second lens portion including a second reflective member, and a display device on one side of the lens for displaying first and second images, wherein the first reflective member reflects the first image at a first angle, and the second reflective member reflects the second image at a second angle that is different from the first angle.

A system for resonantly enhanced frequency conversion includes a nonlinear crystal for frequency converting a pump laser beam, and mirrors forming a ring resonator for the pump laser beam such that a closed propagation path of the pump laser beam, inside the ring resonator, passes through the nonlinear crystal. The mirrors include an adaptive mirror, a curved-mirror pair positioned in a first segment of the propagation path spanning between the adaptive mirror and the nonlinear crystal, and an input coupler for coupling the pump laser beam into the ring resonator. The curved-mirror pair forms an imaging system having conjugate planes at the adaptive mirror and the nonlinear crystal. The input coupler is positioned in a second segment of the propagation path that spans between the adaptive mirror and the nonlinear crystal and does not include deflection by the curved-mirror pair.

An optical assembly for projecting light output by a display includes an optical waveguide, a reflective optical element, and a in-coupler coupled with the optical waveguide. The reflective optical element is positioned to receive first light and to reflect the first light as second light. The in-coupler is positioned to receive the first light and transmit the first light toward the reflective optical element. The in-coupler is further positioned to receive the second light and redirect a first portion of the second light so that the first portion of the second light undergoes total internal reflection inside the optical waveguide. The reflective optical element includes a negative meniscus lens having a concave lens surface and a convex lens surface coupled with a reflective surface. The reflective optical element is positioned to focus the first light such that the second light is more collimated than the first light.

An ocular optical system that guides light from a display element to an eye of an observer includes a first phase plate, a second phase plate, one or more lenses, and a polarization separation element configured to reflect first linearly polarized light and allow second linearly polarized light to pass therethrough in a polarization direction orthogonal to a polarization direction of the first linearly polarized light. The second phase plate is in contact with and held by a predetermined lens among the one or more lenses. The first phase plate has a shape that determines a phase. An outer shape of the predetermined lens is a rotationally symmetric shape. The second phase plate has a rotationally symmetric shaped portion and a non-rotationally symmetric shaped portion.

An optical system includes an image surface, an aperture stop, a first and a second quarter-wave plate, a partial reflector, a reflective polarizer, a first and a second optical lens element. The image surface and the aperture stop are respectively at a front side and a rear side of the optical system. The first quarter-wave plate is between the image surface and the aperture stop. The partial reflector between the first quarter-wave plate and the aperture stop has an average light reflectivity of 35%. The second quarter-wave plate is between the partial reflector and the aperture stop. The reflective polarizer is between the second quarter-wave plate and the aperture stop. The first optical lens element between the image surface and the aperture stop has a convex front-side surface. The second optical lens element between the first optical lens element and the aperture stop has a concave rear-side surface.

An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils on a curved surface within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location.

An optical system for displaying an image to a viewer includes a partial reflector, a reflective polarizer, and a first retarder layer. A light ray propagates along the optical axis and passes through the plurality of optical lenses, the partial reflector, the reflective polarizer, and the first retarder layer without being substantially refracted. For a cone of light incident on the optical system from an object comprising a spatial frequency of about 70, 60, 50, 40, or 30 line pairs per millimeter and filling the exit pupil with a chief ray of the cone of light passing through a center of the opening of the exit pupil of the optical system and making an angle of about 20 degrees with the optical axis, a modulation transfer function of the optical system is greater than about 0.2.

A catadioptric telescope is a modified version of a conventional Maksutov-Cassegrain optical telescope. In accordance with the invention, the reflecting surfaces of the primary mirror and the secondary spot mirror are on the second surfaces of the primary mirror and correcting lens, respectively. In further accordance with the invention, two of these telescopes can be joined together to form a binocular telescope array. The array can be easily customized to suit different remote sensing/satellite applications.

Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for folded optic stereoscopic imaging, wherein a number of folded optic paths each direct a different one of a corresponding number of stereoscopic images toward a portion of a single image sensor. Each folded optic path can include a set of optics including a first light folding surface positioned to receive light propagating from a scene along a first optical axis and redirect the light along a second optical axis, a second light folding surface positioned to redirect the light from the second optical axis to a third optical axis, and lens elements positioned along at least the first and second optical axes and including a first subset having telescopic optical characteristics and a second subset lengthening the optical path length. The sensor can be a three-dimensionally stacked backside illuminated sensor wafer and reconfigurable instruction cell array processing wafer that performs depth processing.

A light-emitting module provided in an embodiment comprises: a circuit board; a light-emitting diode arranged on the circuit board; an optical lens arranged on the light-emitting diode; a reflective sheet arranged between the optical lens and the circuit board; and an adhesive layer arranged between the reflective sheet and the circuit board, wherein the optical lens comprises: an incident surface having a recessed part on the light-emitting diode; a reflective surface for reflecting light incident on the incident surface; and a light-emitting surface arranged on the outer circumference thereof, wherein the reflective sheet includes an open area in which the light-emitting diode is arranged and the open area has a width wider than the width of the light-emitting diode and narrower than the width of the incident surface of the optical lens.