Disclosed are a near-eye display apparatus. The near-eye display apparatus comprises: a display screen; a polarization converter; an imaging lens group; a semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer arranged between the polarization converter and the first lens; a reflective polarized layer arranged on the side, facing away from the polarization converter, of the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer, the polarization direction of the first linearly polarized light is vertical to the polarization direction of the second linearly polarized light; and a liquid crystal lens arranged between the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer and the reflective polarized layer. When the liquid crystal lens is switched between the first phase retardation amount and the second phase retardation amount, the light path of light in the near-eye display apparatus changes, so that the near-eye display apparatus can image at two focal lengths.

According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first liquid crystal element opposed to a light emitting region, a second liquid crystal element including a first main surface and a second main surface, a first phase difference layer disposed on the second main surface, a second phase difference layer disposed on the second main surface and adjacent to the first phase difference layer, and a diffusion layer opposed to the first phase difference layer and the second phase difference layer. Each of the first liquid crystal element and the second liquid crystal element has a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and is cured in a state in which an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules has continuously changed in plane.

A device is provided. The device includes a first birefringent film including a calamitic liquid crystal (“LC”) material configured with a first helical structure. The device also includes a second birefringent film stacked with the first birefringent film and including a discotic LC material configured with a second helical structure.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements and at least one transmissive-reflective module, where the light emitting elements are arranged on the substrate; each of the light emitting elements includes a first electrode, a light emitting functional layer and a second electrode arranged along a direction vertical to the substrate and away from the substrate; the at least one transmissive-reflective module is arranged on a side, close to the substrate, of the first electrode of at least one of the light emitting elements, and/or on a side, away from the substrate, of the second electrode of at least one of the light emitting elements; the transmissive-reflective module is configured to switch between a transmissive state and a reflective state.

One example provides an optical device, comprising a light source configured to output unpolarized light, a polarizing beam splitter configured to split the unpolarized light into light of a first polarization state and light of a second polarization state and a polarization volume grating configured to receive the light of the first polarization state and the light of the second polarization state, and transmit the light of the first polarization state without changing the light of the first polarization state to a different polarization state, and convert the light of the second polarization state to the first polarization state, thereby forming polarized output light.

A polarizing device and a method for manufacturing the polarizing device, a display panel and a display device are provided. The polarizing device comprises a first polarizing layer and at least two second polarizing layers, wherein each of two sides of the first polarizing layer is provided with respective at least one of the second polarizing layers; a light transmission axis of the first polarizing layer is parallel to the first polarizing layer, a phase delay axis of the second polarizing layer is parallel to the second polarizing layer, an orthographic projection of the light transmission axis onto the first polarizing layer intersects with an orthographic projection of the phase delay axis onto the first polarizing layer to form an included angle, the included angle is configured to convert linear polarized light incident on the polarization assembly into polarized light emitted from the polarization assembly.

An optically anisotropic layered body including a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer, wherein the first optically anisotropic layer satisfies 220 nm<Re1(590)<330 nm, Re1(450)/Re1(550)≤1.0, Re1(650)/Re1(550)≥1.0, and 0.95<NZ1<2.00, and the second optically anisotropic layer satisfies 110 nm<Re2(590)<165 nm, Re2(450)/Re2(550)≤1.0, Re2(650)/Re2(550)≥1.0, and −1.5≤NZ2≤0.00.

The present invention provides a laminate and an image display device, in which alignment defects of a liquid crystal layer provided on an optical alignment layer are suppressed. The laminate includes an optical alignment layer and a liquid crystal layer provided on the optical alignment layer. In the laminate, the liquid crystal layer is formed from a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a surfactant, and the liquid crystal compound is immobilized in a horizontal alignment state, and the surfactant is a copolymer having a repeating unit containing a fluorinated alkyl group and having a repeating unit containing a mesogenic group.

The disclosure provides a self-biased magneto-optical non-reciprocal metasurface device. The device includes substrate layer and a sub-wavelength structure layer. The substrate layer is a material layer with a refractive index of 1 to 5 in a microwave frequency band. The sub-wavelength structure layer includes a plurality of square columnar elements arranged in a matrix period with equal period in row and column directions. The square columnar elements include magneto-optical material. The adjustment of phase and amplitude of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is achieved by changing the length, width and height of the square columnar elements, and thus the device attains a desired isolation and insertion loss at a center frequency f.sub.0. The parameters of the magneto-optical material are: coercivity Hc≥1000 A/m; remanence Br≥1 kGs; a voigt parameter of a permittivity tensor or permeability tensor in a working frequency band≥0.01.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a backlight device including a plurality of light sources, to irradiate light to the display panel, and an optical element provided on an emission side of the display panel and inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the display panel.