Contrast budget of head-mounted displays

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2419-2426

  De Wit, Gerard C ^a  

^a Optical Diagnostics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Displays; Ghost images; Scattering; Stray light

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SCANNING; STRAY LIGHT;

CONTRAST; GHOST IMAGE; HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY; LUMINANCE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0036811083     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1503071     Document Type: Article

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