Design, fabrication and optimisation of immersive automotive Head Up Displays based on metasurface holographic projection.

Topic description

In the framework of the recently obtained EU project “VIVE” the optics department of the IMT Atlantique in

Brest, France currently has a vacancy open for a fully funded PhD in the field of photonics/optics. The aim

of this PhD will be to design, fabricate and optimise diffractive micro- and nano-structures to overcome the

system size / field of view limitations of current automotive Head Up Displays (HUDs). The VIVE project will

investigate a disruptive approach based on Computer Generated Holograms (CGH) and MEMs scanned

lasers to project patterns across the entire dashboard and windscreen. To do this the PhD student will learn

to use, contribute to and leverage both commercial and in-house diffractive structure and metasurface

modelling and design software (Zemax, Lumerical, LightTrans, PlanOpSim, C and python code) and apply

them to design and optimise the CGHs and other photoni...