Spatial light modulators for high-brightness projection displays

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 5646-5655

  Takizawa, Kuniharu ^a   Fujii, Takanori ^a   Kikuchi, Hiroshi ^a   Fujikake, Hideo ^a   Kawakita, Masahiro ^a   Hirano, Yoshiyuki ^a   Sato, Fumio ^a  

^a NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

POLYMER-DISPERSED LIQUID-CRYSTAL LIGHT VALVES (PDLCLV);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0032620566     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005646     Document Type: Article

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