Design and fabrication of an integrated polarized light guide for liquid-crystal-display illumination

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1830-1834

  Chien, Ko Wei ^a   Shieh, Han Ping D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INTEGRATED POLARIZED LIGHT GUIDE; LIQUID CRYSTAL BACKLIGHT; MICRO OPTICAL STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1942519327     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001830     Document Type: Article

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