Video-compatible subtractive color projection with cholesteric liquid-crystal band-modulation filters

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-45

  Fünfschilling, Jürg ^b,c,d,e   Schadt, Martin ^a,b,d,e,f,g   Seiberle, Hubert ^b,c,g,h  

^a SID ^*

^b Rolic Technologies Ltd   (Switzerland)

^c ROLIC Ltd

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^f CEO of ROLIC Ltd

^g Liquid Crystal Group

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholesteric filter; LCD projector; Light valves; Subtractive color

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COLOR; EFFICIENCY; HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SWITCHING;

CHOLESTERIC FILTER; FULL COLOR SATURATION; HIGH CONTRACT; LIGHT VALVES; PIXEL; PROJECTION DISPLAY; SUBTRACTIVE COLOR; VIDEO PROJECTION; WHITE LIGHT;

OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

EID: 0030125071     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.1984987     Document Type: Article

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