Systems, articles, and methods for integrating holographic optical elements with eyeglass lenses

A lens for use in a wearable heads-up display, the lens prepared by a process comprising the acts of:

• providing a front half portion of a lens having a curvature;
• providing a rear half portion of the lens having a curvature;
• recording a hologram into a photopolymer film while the photopolymer film is planar;
• applying an optical adhesive to at least one surface selected from a group consisting of:
• a surface of the front half portion of the lens, a surface of a rear half portion of the lens, and a surface of the photopolymer film;
• positioning the photopolymer film in between the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens;
• pressing the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens together with the photopolymer film sandwiched therebetween, wherein the hologram in the photopolymer film compensates for at least one optical effect introduced by at least one of the curvature of the front half portion of the lens and/or the curvature of the rear half portion of the lens;
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• applying an eyeglass prescription to at least one of the front half portion of the lens and/or the rear half portion of the lens after pressing the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens together with the photopolymer film sandwiched therebetween, wherein the hologram in the photopolymer film further compensates for the eyeglass prescription applied to at least one of the front half portion of the lens and/or the rear half portion of the lens after pressing the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens together with the photopolymer film sandwiched therebetween.

A method of manufacturing a lens for use in a wearable heads-up display, the method comprising:

• providing a front half portion of a lens having a curvature;
• providing a rear half portion of the lens having a curvature;
• recording a hologram into a photopolymer film while the photopolymer film is planar;
• applying an optical adhesive to at least one surface selected from a group consisting of:
• a surface of the front half portion of the lens, a surface of the rear half portion of the lens, and a surface of the photopolymer film;
• positioning the photopolymer film in between the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens;
• and
• pressing the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens together with the photopolymer film sandwiched therebetween, wherein the hologram in the photopolymer film compensates for at least one optical effect introduced by at least one of the curvature of the front half portion of the lens and/or the curvature of the rear half portion of the lens, and wherein pressing the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens together with the photopolymer film sandwiched therebetween includes applying a curvature to the photopolymer film, and wherein the hologram in the photopolymer film further compensates for the curvature applied to the photopolymer film during the pressing the front half portion of the lens and the rear half portion of the lens together with the photopolymer film sandwiched therebetween.