Electronic device having emissive display with light recycling

An electronic device, comprising:

• a head-mounted support structure;
• a display supported by the head-mounted support structure, wherein the display has a substrate, light-emitting diodes on the substrate that are configured to display an image, and a light recycling layer that overlaps the light-emitting diodes;
• and
• a catadioptric lens supported by the head-mounted support structure that is configured to receive polarized light from the display.

An electronic device, comprising:

• a head-mounted support structure;
• a catadioptric lens supported by the head-mounted support structure that is configured to receive polarized image light and supply a corresponding image to an eye box;
• and
• a display supported by the head-mounted support structure that is configured to supply the polarized image light to the catadioptric lens, wherein the display comprises light-emitting diodes, a quarter wave plate, an absorptive linear polarizer between the quarter wave plate and the light-emitting diodes, and a light recycling layer between the absorptive linear polarizer and the light-emitting diodes.

An electronic device comprising:

• a support structure;
• and
• a display supported by the support structure, the display having:
• pixels configured to emit light,
• a light recycling layer that overlaps the pixels, and
• an absorptive polarizer that overlaps the pixels, wherein at least a portion of the emitted light passes through the light recycling layer and the absorptive polarizer and wherein the absorptive polarizer is configured to receive and absorb incoming light from outside of the display.

An electronic device comprising:

• a support structure;
• and
• a display supported by the support structure, the display having:
• pixels configured emit light, and
• a light recycling layer that overlaps the pixels, wherein the light recycling layer comprises a layer that passes light of a first polarization state as display light and reflects light of a second polarization state and wherein the light recycling layer converts the reflected light of the second polarization state to light of the first polarization state for transmission as the display light.