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A diffractive optical waveguide for optical pupil expansion and a display device are provided. The diffractive optical waveguide comprises a waveguide substrate and a grating structure. The grating structure is disposed on a surface of the waveguide substrate or in the waveguide substrate and comprises a plurality of periodic structures arranged at intervals along a first direction and arranged at intervals along a second direction. The second direction is different from the first direction. A first distance between the centers of adjacent periodic structures in the first direction is smaller than a second distance between the centers of adjacent periodic structures in the second direction. The grating structure is equivalent to a one-dimensional grating with a grating vector in a vertical direction of the first direction, and the vertical direction is parallel to a plane where the grating structure is located.