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Now things get a bit destructive, but it's worth it to get a peek at the optics chain.
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A tiny ring of six LEDs starts the process—red, green and blue, times two for two focus planes.
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The LEDs then shine on the LCOS microdisplay to generate an image. It's mounted to the black plastic housing next door.
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From inside that housing, a collimating lens aligns the raw light output from the LEDs, and is mounted to a polarizing beam splitter.
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The polarized beams then pass through a series of lenses to focus the image into the entrance gratings on the waveguides.
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The entrance gratings themselves look like tiny dots embedded in the six (now slightly shattered) waveguides.
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We pick up the "injection" unit for a closer look, revealing the colors associated with each entrance grating: two red, two green, and two blue.
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