Optical waveguide component and display device
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of display equipment, in particular to an optical waveguide component and display equipment.
Background
Augmented Reality (AR) technology is a technology that skillfully fuses virtual information and the real world, and can be used in the real world after simulating virtual information such as characters, images, three-dimensional models, music, videos and the like generated by a computer, so as to supplement the real information in the real world and realize the 'enhancement' of the real world. The head-mounted display utilizing the augmented reality technology can enable people to project virtual images to human eyes while looking up the surrounding environment, and has important significance in the fields of military, industry, entertainment, medical treatment, transportation and the like.
In transmissive head-mounted displays currently used for augmented reality, the main technologies include: the Birdbath, prism, free form surface, and optical waveguide technologies, compared to other technologies, a head-mounted display using optical waveguide technology is smaller in volume. The optical waveguide technology mainly includes an array optical waveguide, a surface relief grating waveguide and a volume holographic waveguide, wherein the color expression and the light energy utilization rate of the array optical waveguide are superior to those of a diffraction optical waveguide and the volume holographic waveguide, and the array optical waveguide is widely applied.
In general, as shown in fig. 1, a one-dimensional array waveguide sheet includes a plurality of parallelogram prisms 1 'and a trapezoidal prism 2', and the plurality of parallelogram prisms 1 'and the trapezoidal prism 2' are arranged in a trapezoidal structure, and the trapezoidal structure has two parallel planes, one of which is an exit surface of the optical waveguide sheet. In actual processing, the parallelogram prism 1 'and the trapezoid prism 2' need to be glued together through optical cement, and then two parallel surfaces of the trapezoid structure are cut and polished until the height of the trapezoid structure reaches the product requirement. Due to the limitation of the processing technology, the optical cement between the parallelogram prism 1 'and the trapezoid prism 2' is oxidized by air and is affected by each device in the cutting and polishing processes, so that the optical performance of the surface layer of the optical cement on the emergent surface is different from the optical performance of the middle part of the optical cement, light rays incident to the surface layer of the emergent surface of the optical cement are scattered out of the optical waveguide sheet, and the phenomenon of 'propagation direction stray light' is not generated like pure reflection or transmission at other positions, so that the phenomenon of smearing (two sides of an image formed by the optical waveguide assembly are provided with fuzzy bright strips) is generated, and the imaging quality is reduced.
Accordingly, there is a need for an optical waveguide assembly and a display device to solve the above-mentioned problems.
Disclosure of Invention
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical waveguide module, which ensures that the coupling-out surface of the optical waveguide module is a uniform plane, and also prevents the optical properties of the adhesive layer between the prisms from being changed, thereby improving the imaging effect of the optical waveguide module.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a display device in which an image effect of the display device is improved.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
an optical waveguide assembly comprising:
the first transparent substrate comprises a first side surface, and a first glue layer is coated on the first side surface;
the second transparent substrate is parallel to the first transparent substrate and arranged at intervals, and comprises a second side surface which is arranged towards the first transparent substrate and coated with a second adhesive layer;
a first array optical waveguide sheet disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, the first array optical waveguide sheet including a first plane for coupling out light and a second plane parallel to the first plane, the first plane being disposed facing the first side surface and parallel to the first transparent substrate, the first plane being bonded to the first transparent substrate through the first adhesive layer, the second plane being bonded to the second transparent substrate through the second adhesive layer, a plurality of first prisms of the first array optical waveguide sheet being bonded to each other through the first adhesive layer, both ends of the first adhesive layer being connected to the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer, respectively; the first adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are made of optical adhesive with the same material.
Preferably, the first transparent substrate, the second transparent substrate and the first prism are made of glass or resin.
Preferably, the first transparent substrate, the second transparent substrate and the first prism are made of the same material.
Preferably, a difference between a refractive index of the material of the optical cement and a refractive index of the material of the first prism is ± 0.05.
Preferably, the thickness of the first transparent substrate is 0-1 mm.
Preferably, the thickness of the second transparent substrate is 0-1 mm.
Preferably, the first transparent substrate and/or the second transparent substrate are/is plated with an antireflection film.
Preferably, the optical waveguide assembly further includes a second array optical waveguide sheet interposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, the coupling-out surface of the second array optical waveguide sheet is bonded to the coupling-in surface of the first array optical waveguide sheet, the second array optical waveguide sheet includes a third plane for light outcoupling and a fourth plane parallel to the third plane, the third plane faces to the first side face and is arranged in parallel with the first transparent substrate, the third plane is bonded with the first transparent substrate through a first adhesive layer, the fourth plane is bonded with the second transparent substrate through the second adhesive layer, the second prisms of the second array optical waveguide sheet are bonded through the second adhesive layer, two ends of the second adhesive layer are respectively connected to the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer; the first adhesive layer, the second adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are optical adhesive with the same material.
Preferably, the coupling-out surface of the second array optical waveguide sheet is bonded to the coupling-in surface of the first array optical waveguide sheet through a third bonding adhesive layer, two ends of the third bonding adhesive layer are respectively connected to the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer, and the first bonding adhesive layer, the second bonding adhesive layer, the third bonding adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are made of optical adhesive with the same material.
A display device comprising an optical waveguide assembly as described above.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
according to the optical waveguide assembly provided by the invention, the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate are adhered to the two sides of the first array optical waveguide sheet, so that the first adhesive glue layer, the first glue layer and the second glue layer are all clamped inside the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, and the condition that each glue layer is oxidized by air or the optical performance of each glue layer is influenced in the processing process of the optical waveguide assembly is avoided, so that light is prevented from being scattered through the surface of the glue layer, the light is also ensured to pass through the contact surface between the glue layer and the glass substrate along a straight line, and the imaging quality of the optical waveguide assembly is further ensured. And the first transparent substrate is used as the emergent surface of the optical waveguide component, so that the emergent surface is a complete plane, the scattering of emergent light caused by different materials is avoided, the imaging quality is ensured, and the influence of the smear phenomenon on the imaging quality is reduced. First bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film are the same optical cement of material, have guaranteed that light can pass the junction between each glue film along the straight line, have further guaranteed optical waveguide assembly's image quality.
The display device provided by the invention comprises the optical waveguide component, and the imaging quality is improved.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a structure of an optical waveguide sheet in the prior art;
FIG. 2 is a side view of an optical waveguide assembly provided by an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a front view of a first array optical waveguide sheet and a second array optical waveguide sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a side view of the first array optical waveguide sheet and the second array optical waveguide sheet according to the embodiment of the present invention.
In the figure:
1', a parallelogram prism; 2', a trapezoidal prism;
1. a first transparent substrate; 2. a second transparent substrate; 3. a first array optical waveguide sheet; 31. a first prism; 4. a second array optical waveguide sheet; 41. and a second prism.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems solved, technical solutions adopted and technical effects achieved by the present invention clearer, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning permanently connected, removably connected, or integral to one another; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, "above" or "below" a first feature means that the first and second features are in direct contact, or that the first and second features are not in direct contact but are in contact with each other via another feature therebetween. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.
The technical scheme of the invention is further explained by the specific implementation mode in combination with the attached drawings.
The present embodiment provides an optical waveguide assembly. Specifically, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, the optical waveguide assembly includes a first transparent substrate 1, a second transparent substrate 2, and an optical waveguide sheet. The first transparent substrate 1 comprises a first side surface, and a first glue layer is coated on the first side surface; the second transparent substrate 2 is parallel to the first transparent substrate 1 and arranged at intervals, the second transparent substrate 2 comprises a second side surface, the second side surface is arranged towards the first transparent substrate 1, and a second glue layer is coated on the second side surface. The optical waveguide sheet comprises a first array optical waveguide sheet 3, the first array optical waveguide sheet 3 is arranged between a first transparent substrate 1 and a second transparent substrate 2, the first array optical waveguide sheet 3 comprises a first plane and a second plane, the first plane is used for light coupling, the second plane is parallel to the first plane, the first plane is arranged towards a first side face and is parallel to the first transparent substrate 1, the first plane is bonded with the first transparent substrate 1 through a first glue layer, the second plane is bonded with the second transparent substrate 2 through a second glue layer, a plurality of first prisms 31 of the first array optical waveguide sheet 3 are bonded through a first bonding glue layer, and two ends of the first bonding glue layer are respectively connected with the first glue layer and the second glue layer; the first adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are optical adhesive with the same material.
The optical waveguide component that this embodiment provided, first transparent substrate 1 and second transparent substrate 2 have been pasted in the both sides of first array optical waveguide piece 3, make first bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film all press from both sides and establish inside first transparent substrate 1 and second transparent substrate 2, avoided each glue film by air oxidation or its optical property at optical waveguide component's course of working to be influenced, thereby avoided light to be scattered through the glue film surface, also guaranteed that light can follow the straight line and pass the contact surface between glue film and the glass substrate, optical waveguide component's formation of image quality has further been guaranteed. And use first transparent substrate 1 as the exit surface of optical waveguide subassembly for the exit surface is complete plane, has avoided the scattering of the emergent light that the material difference leads to, has guaranteed the imaging quality, has also reduced the influence of smear phenomenon to the imaging quality. First bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film are the same optical cement of material, have guaranteed that light can pass the junction between each glue film along the straight line, have further guaranteed optical waveguide assembly's image quality.
Preferably, the first transparent substrate 1, the second transparent substrate 2 and the first prism 31 are made of glass or resin. The optical performance of the glass and the resin is better, and the imaging quality of the optical waveguide component is improved.
Furthermore, the first transparent substrate 1, the second transparent substrate 2 and the first prism 31 are made of the same material, and the same material enables the optical performance of the first transparent substrate 1, the second transparent substrate 2 and the first prism 31 to be the same, so that light can be transmitted along a straight line in the optical waveguide assembly, and the imaging quality is guaranteed.
Preferably, the difference between the refractive index of the material of the optical cement and the refractive index of the material of the first prism 31 is ± 0.05, preferably ± 0.01. The difference between the refractive indexes is small, so that light can further penetrate through the contact surface between the adhesive layer and the glass substrate and between the adhesive layer and the prism along a straight line, and the imaging quality of the optical waveguide component is further guaranteed. In this embodiment, the refractive index of the first transparent substrate 1 is 1.517, and the refractive index of the optical cement is 1.51.
Preferably, the thickness of the first transparent substrate 1 is 0-1 mm, preferably 0.3mm, and the first transparent substrate 1 is thin, so that the optical waveguide component is prevented from being too heavy, and the imaging quality can be prevented from being affected due to the fact that the first transparent substrate 1 is too thick. Similarly, the thickness of the second transparent substrate 2 is 0 to 1mm, preferably 0.3 mm.
Further, the first transparent substrate 1 and the second transparent substrate 2 have the same thickness, so that the production and the processing are convenient.
Further, the first transparent substrate 1 and/or the second transparent substrate 2 are/is plated with an antireflection film, so that the light transmittance of the first transparent substrate 1 and/or the second transparent substrate 2 to light is improved, when the optical waveguide assembly is applied to the AR technology, the antireflection film is arranged, the definition of real scenes is improved, and the practicability of the optical waveguide assembly is improved.
In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the optical waveguide sheet further includes a second array optical waveguide sheet 4, so that the combination between the first array optical waveguide sheet 3 and the second array optical waveguide sheet 4 forms a two-dimensional array optical waveguide sheet, which improves the practicality. Specifically, the second array optical waveguide sheet 4 is disposed between the first transparent substrate 1 and the second transparent substrate 2, a coupling-out surface of the second array optical waveguide sheet 4 is attached to a coupling-in surface of the first array optical waveguide sheet 3, the second array optical waveguide sheet 4 includes a third plane for coupling out light and a fourth plane parallel to the third plane, the third plane faces the first side surface and is disposed parallel to the first transparent substrate 1, the third plane is bonded to the first transparent substrate 1 through a first adhesive layer, the fourth plane is bonded to the second transparent substrate 2 through a second adhesive layer, a plurality of second prisms 41 of the second array optical waveguide sheet 4 are bonded through a second adhesive layer, and two ends of the second adhesive layer are connected to the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer respectively; the first adhesive layer, the second adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are optical adhesive with the same material. Make first bonding glue film, the second bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film all press from both sides and establish inside first transparent substrate 1 and second transparent substrate 2, avoided the second bonding glue film by air oxidation or its optical property at the course of working of optical waveguide subassembly by the influence, thereby avoided light to be scattered through second bonding glue film surface, also guaranteed that light can pass the contact surface between second bonding glue film and the glass substrate along the straight line, further guaranteed optical waveguide subassembly's image quality. First bonding glue film, second bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film are the same optical cement of material, have guaranteed that light can pass the junction between each glue film along the straight line, have further guaranteed optical waveguide subassembly's imaging quality.
Furthermore, the coupling-out surface of the second array optical waveguide sheet 4 and the coupling-in surface of the first array optical waveguide sheet 3 are bonded through a third bonding adhesive layer, two ends of the third bonding adhesive layer are respectively connected to the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer, and the first bonding adhesive layer, the second bonding adhesive layer, the third bonding adhesive layer, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are made of optical adhesive with the same material. Make first bonding glue film, second bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film all press from both sides and establish inside first transparent substrate 1 and second transparent substrate 2, avoided the third bonding glue film by air oxidation or its optical property at the course of working of optical waveguide subassembly by the influence, thereby avoided light to be scattered through third bonding glue film surface, also guaranteed that light can pass the contact surface between third bonding glue film and the glass substrate along the straight line, further guaranteed optical waveguide subassembly's image quality. First bonding glue film, second bonding glue film, third bonding glue film, first glue film and second glue film are the same optical cement of material, have guaranteed that light can pass the junction between each glue film along the straight line, have further guaranteed optical waveguide assembly's image quality.
The present embodiment also provides a display device employing the optical waveguide assembly as described in the foregoing. The display device further comprises a frame and a wearing rope, the optical waveguide component is arranged in the frame, and the wearing rope is connected to the edge of the frame and used for fixing the display device on the head of a user.
It should be understood that the above-described embodiments of the present invention are merely examples for clearly illustrating the present invention, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present invention. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.