Luminance enhancement of LED light sources for etendue-limited applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6338, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chaves, Julio ^b   Falicoff, Waqidi ^a   Benitez, Pablo ^b   Miñano, Juan Carlos ^b   Parkyn, William A ^a   Dross, Oliver ^b  

^a Light Prescriptions Innovators Corporate   (United States)

^b Light Prescriptions Innovators   (Spain)

Author keywords

Etendue; LED; Luminance enhancement; Projector displays

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; PHOTONS;

LIGHT-CONFINING BOX; LUMINANCE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTONIC LATTICE; PROJECTOR DISPLAYS;

PROJECTION SCREENS;

EID: 33751115239     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.683298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. See also the related paper given at the same SPIE conference as this paper: "A superior architecture of brightness enhancement for display backlighting" by O. Dross, P. Benitez, J. C. Miñano, J. Chaves, W. Parkyn, R. Alvarez, W. Falicoff
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9. Julio Chaves, Pablo Benitez, Juan Carlos Miñano, Roberto Alvarez, Waqidi Falicoff, William A. Parkyn, Oliver Dross, "Led Luminance- Enhancement and Color-Mixing by Rotationally Multiplexed Beam-Combining", Patents Pending
10. Julio Chaves, Waqidi Falicoff, William A. Parkyn, Pablo Benitez, Juan Carlos Miñano, Oliver Dross, "LED Light-Recycling For Luminance-Enhancement and Angular Narrowing", Patents Pending
11. Julio Cesar Chaves, Waqidi Falicoff, Juan Carlos Miñano, Pablo Benitez, William A. Parkyn, "Optical Manifold for Combining Output of RGB Light-Emitting-Diodes and Optional Remote Phosphor", Patents Pending