Dr. Ing. Valter Drazic
Principal Scientist
-PhD, KIT (Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie), Germany.
-MSc, école d'ingénieurs Télécom-Physique, France.
Achievements
Professional experience
Expertise
- Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) systems, optics and physics.
- Nano-optics enhanced surface relief gratings.
- High efficiency diffractive optical elements.
- AR/MR wafer, in-coupler, EPE and out-coupler.
- Optics of displays: LCD, OLED, DLP, Plasma, Backlightings.
- Cameras and acquisition systems.
- Lightfields.
- Lens design.
- Illumination systems.
- Projection optics.
- HDR acquisition, colorimetry.
- GPGPU calculations in cuda or OpenCL.
- Computer Generated Holography : diffraction theory, fast algorithms, CGH calculation.
Education
Degrees
1993
1989
1988
PhD, 3D Optical Transfer Functions in Optical Microscopy. Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie.
Master of Science in Photonics. University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
Master of Science in Optical Engineering. Ecole Télécom-Physique, Strasbourg, France.
Languages
French
English
German
Croatian
Serbian
Native language.
Fluent. 18 month of working assignment in the USA.
Fluent. 5 years of working experience in Germany.
Native language.
Native language.
Softwares
Optics
Physics
Coding
Optics Studio (Zemax), ASAP, Trace Pro, Code V, Oslo, Solstis.
Comsol (beginner).
Visual Studio, C, C++, Cuda, OpenCL, Matlab.
Last position
Principal Scientist
2018-2021
Technical lead of the Digital Holography group (from 01/2021):
- Light-Guiding project
Waveguide based optical system for AR glasses, based on Surface Relief Gratings. Analyzes and optimization of the system performances, trade-off grating efficiencies and waveguide thickness, combiner architecture, prototyping and test of proof of concepts.
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Computer Generated Holography
Development of a framework based on multi-layer scene coding for the calculation of CGHs.