首次实现几何波导显示的端到端可微优化,大幅提升光效与成像质量。
End-to-end differentiable design of geometric waveguide displays
- 将蒙特卡洛光线追踪与可微薄膜求解器结合,实现梯度反传。
- 光效率从4.1%提升至33.5%,视场均匀性提高11倍。
- 适合光学设计、AR显示研发人员,推动可微光学应用。
几何波导是光学透视增强现实显示的有前景架构,但其性能受限于非顺序光传输与偏振依赖型多层薄膜涂层的联合优化难题。本文提出首个面向几何波导的端到端可微优化框架,将非顺序蒙特卡洛偏振光线追踪与可微传递矩阵薄膜求解器耦合。可微蒙特卡洛光线追踪避免确定性光线分裂的指数级增长,同时支持从眼盒指标向设计参数反向传播梯度。通过内存优化策略,我们在单台多GPU工作站上优化了上千层厚度参数和数十亿次非顺序光线-表面交点。通过从过参数化堆栈出发,在离散可制造性约束下驱动冗余层厚度趋零,实现自动层剪枝,有效完成拓扑优化以发现最优镀膜结构。在典型设计中,从厚度范围内的随机初始化开始,光效率由4.1%提升至33.5%,眼盒与视场均匀性分别提升约17倍和11倍。此外,我们联合优化波导与图像预处理网络,提升感知画质。该框架不仅实现了波导内部系统级高维镀膜优化,也拓展了可微光学在下一代光学设计中的应用边界。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Geometric waveguides are a promising architecture for optical see-through augmented reality displays, but their performance is severely bottlenecked by the difficulty of jointly optimizing non-sequential light transport and polarization-dependent multilayer thin-film coatings. Here we present the first end-to-end differentiable optimization framework for geometric waveguide that couples non-sequential Monte Carlo polarization ray tracing with a differentiable transfer-matrix thin-film solver. A differentiable Monte Carlo ray tracer avoids the exponential growth of deterministic ray splitting while enabling gradients backpropagation from eyebox metrics to design parameters. With memory-saving strategies, we optimize more than one thousand layer-thickness parameters and billions of non-sequential ray-surface intersections on a single multi-GPU workstation. Automated layer pruning is achieved by starting from over-parameterized stacks and driving redundant layers to zero thickness under discrete manufacturability constraints, effectively performing topology optimization to discover optimal coating structures. On a representative design, starting from random initialization within thickness bounds, our method increases light efficiency from 4.1\% to 33.5\% and improves eyebox and FoV uniformity by $\sim$17$\times$ and $\sim$11$\times$, respectively. Furthermore, we jointly optimize the waveguide and an image preprocessing network to improve perceived image quality. Our framework not only enables system-level, high-dimensional coating optimization inside the waveguide, but also expands the scope of differentiable optics for next-generation optical design.
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