According to an example, a display having a display surface may comprise a backlight, a collimator, and a scattering layer. The backlight may emit light towards the display surface, the light being narrowed by the collimator. The collimator may be located between the display surface and the backlight and the scattering layer may be between the display surface and the collimator. The scattering layer may be selectively operable between a diffuse state in which light traveling through the scattering layer is scattered and a non-diffuse state in which the direction of travel of the light traveling through the scattering layer is substantially unaffected.

An optical device includes an array of lenses and a plurality of segments disposed under the array of lenses. The plurality of segments corresponds to a plurality of images. Upon tilting the device at different viewing angle, the array of lenses presents images sequentially. In some examples, individual ones of the segments can comprise specular reflecting, transparent, diffusely reflecting, and/or diffusely transmissive features. In some examples, individual ones of the segments can comprise transparent and non-transparent regions. The images can produce one or more optical effects.

A coherent beam moves across a stationary line generator, allowing the speckle pattern projected through the diffuser onto the surface—for example using a MEMS mirror, or another arrangement that is free of a moving mass, such as solid state beam deflector (e.g. an AOM). Where an image sensor is employed, such as a DS, the beam is moved at a speed of at least ½ cycle per image frame so that the full length of the line within the imaged scene is captured by the image sensor. The distance traversed on the diffuser provides sufficient uncorrelated speckle patterns within an exposure time to average to a smooth line. The MEMS mirror can be arranged to oscillate in two substantially orthogonal degrees of freedom so that the line is generated along a first direction and the line moves along the working surface in a second direction.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels; a first anisotropic diffusion layer and a second anisotropic diffusion layer that are layered; and a plurality of light emitting elements interposed between the first anisotropic diffusion layer and the substrate. The first anisotropic diffusion layer and the second anisotropic diffusion layer each include a high refractive index region and a low refractive index region in a mixed manner. An absolute value of a first angle formed by a boundary between the high refractive index region and the low refractive index region of the first anisotropic diffusion layer and a direction perpendicular to the substrate is different from an absolute value of a second angle formed by a boundary between the high refractive index region and the low refractive index region of the second anisotropic diffusion layer and the direction perpendicular to the substrate.

A light emitting structure includes a pixel layer having at least one subpixel, a microlens layer having at least one microlens, the at least one microlens aligned with the at least one subpixel for providing a narrowly-confined on-axis emission profile along an on-axis direction, a first filler material layer and a second filler material layer between the pixel layer and the microlens layer, an interface between the first filler material layer and the second filler material layer configured for reflecting a portion of off-axis emissions from the at least one subpixel by total internal reflection (TIR).

A display device includes a display panel, an optical layer disposed on the display panel, a window disposed on the optical layer, and a light control layer. The light control layer is disposed between the display panel and the optical layer or between the optical layer and the window. The light control layer includes a plurality of transmission portions spaced apart from each other and a light blocking portion filled between the transmission portions. A thickness of each of the transmission portions and a width of each of the transmission portions in a cross-section are determined by a function of a refractive index of the transmission portions, and an exit angle of light emitted from the display panel and propagating through the light control layer.

Eyewear including an optical element, a controller, a support structure configured to support the optical element and the controller, light sources coupled to the controller and supported by the support structure, and a diffuser positioned adjacent to the light sources and supported by the support structure, the diffuser including microstructures that diffuse light emitted by the light sources in a radial anisotropic diffusion pattern or a prism-like diffusion pattern.

The present invention relates to a diffuser and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to a diffuser and a method of manufacturing the same, in which light emitted through the diffuser forms an asymmetric light output pattern. A diffuser according to an exemplary embodiment is a diffuser that forms an asymmetric light output pattern by diffusing laser beams received from a laser source, the diffuser including: a base; and a micro lens array disposed on the base, in which the micro lens array has a plurality of micro lenses each comprising a lower surface and a curved surface disposed on the lower surface, and the lower surface has horizontal and vertical lengths different from each other.

A light emitting element array is provided and includes substrate; light emitting elements arrayed to substrate; first anisotropic diffusion layer facing substrate with light emitting elements interposed between first anisotropic diffusion layer and substrate; and second anisotropic diffusion layer, wherein first anisotropic diffusion layer and second anisotropic diffusion layer are layered, first anisotropic diffusion layer and second anisotropic diffusion layer each include a region in an in-plane direction including a high refractive index region and a low refractive index region in a mixed manner, and absolute value of first angle formed by boundary between high refractive index region and low refractive index region of first anisotropic diffusion layer and direction perpendicular to substrate is different from absolute value of second angle formed by boundary between high refractive index region and low refractive index region of second anisotropic diffusion layer and direction perpendicular to substrate.

A biochip device includes a stratified structure, a light coupler, and an optofluidic portion. The stratified structure includes a top layer having a refractive index n.sub.1, a bottom layer having a refractive index n.sub.3, and an intermediate layer between the top and bottom layers having a refractive index n.sub.2. The light coupler optically couples a light source and the top layer to generate waves that are guided in a plurality of directions inside the top layer. The optofluidic portion is supported on a surface of the top layer and includes a hybridizing chamber containing a hybridizing solution and pads supported on the surface of the top layer and situated within the hybridizing chamber. Probe molecules are deposited on the pads. The refractive index n.sub.2 of the intermediate layer is greater than or equal to a highest index of refraction of the hybridizing chamber and the hybridizing solution.