Polarizing illumination device and projection display device

Details Polarizing illumination device and projection display device Polarizing illumination device and projection display device

1999-01-25

2000-07-04

Mack, Ricky

Optical: systems and elements

Single channel simultaneously to or from plural channels

By surface composed of lenticular elements

359487, G02B 2710, G02B 530

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ABSTRACT:
A technique for preventing a decrease in the amount of effective polarized light that emerges from a polarizing conversion element array is provided. To this end, a polarizing illumination device includes a polarizing conversion element array that converts light emitted from a light source into one type of linearly polarized light, and a plurality of light-shielding portions for blocking a part of light that is incident on the polarizing conversion element array. The polarizing conversion element array is divided into effective incident areas for emitting effective polarized light, and ineffective incident areas for emitting ineffective polarized light. The widths of the plurality of light-shielding portions are set to be smaller than the width of the ineffective incident areas of the polarizing conversion element array, so that light to be incident on the effective incident areas is not blocked. This makes it possible to prevent a decrease in the amount of effective polarized light that emerges from the polarizing conversion element array.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5757547 (1998-05-01), Rodman et al.
patent: 5835120 (1998-11-01), Hamano et al.
patent: 5978136 (1999-11-01), Ogawa et al.

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